On May 20, 2010, at 12:26 PM, verktyg wrote:
> Fred De Long had a lugless custom built frame made for him in the
> early 70s. It had unique fork ends with a slot that allowed him to
> move the front wheel about 3/4" (20mm) forward and back to test the
> effects of fork rake and trail.
>
> There's pictures of the fork and results of his testing in his book
> "DeLong's Guide to Bicycles and Bicycling" (1974 & 1978). He discussed
> the effects of trail on things like handling on gravel roads, riding
> hands off and so on rather than just the racing oriented testing done
> by many others.
>
> Chas. Colerich
> Oakland, CA USA
>
>
That bike had campy 1010 rear ends on the fork. Phil Brown Pulled that up from memory in Oakland, Calif.