On 02/06/2011 12:23 AM, MNF wrote:
> Dear Tom,
>
> Thats an old Tange Aero fork crown. Serotta also used some of them but
> turned them around backwards and IMHO they looked even more interesting.
>
> See : *http://tinyurl.com/4p7p74w*
>
> They took an odd sized fork blade, so even if you wanted to use one of those
> crowns you would have to also track down the odd-sized matching fork blades.
> I'm sure there are some out there somewhere . . . good luck finding some. I
> saw some recent Kaisei blades that might be close enough, but I'm not
> positive.
They were actually standard blades that had been re-formed to the "aero" shape. I'm sure at the Tange factory they had a fancy press to shape them, but with some judicious squeezing using a bench vice and wood blocks you could turn regular blades into the same thing.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA