Re: [CR] Need some help identifying a fork crown

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From: "Steve Birmingham" <sbirmingham@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 10:49:52 -0500
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Subject: Re: [CR] Need some help identifying a fork crown


Could be Tange aero. But to me the one on the Fuji has squared shoulders that would be too low to be possible on the crown shown on Ebay. Another candidate would be Columbus air. Also used by Serotta, and with a more similar profile. It's hard to tell from the different angles of the photos though.

http://www.mindspring.com/~sblackstone/crown.jpg

Either way it's been reworked quite a bit.

And as with the Tange crown it takes special fork blades.

Steve Birmingham Lowell, Massachusetts USA PS, I'm looking for an AIR crown, blades and tubing. Or a complete AIR fork and tubing for a special project.

Message: 8 Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 22:23:42 -0800 From: MNF <emeneff@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CR] Need some help identifying a fork crown To: Tom Sanders <tom@orderandchaos.com> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Message-ID: <AANLkTinMM215HQTAJ-9eH9tBb_kSAcq1pmc18djs47gv@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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.

Interesting to see the Fuji on the link you sent using French Nervex DuBois lugs and full Campy parts.

Regards, Mike Fabian San Francisco

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Tom Sanders <tom@orderandchaos.com> wrote:
> Can any of you tell me what this fork crown is? Any help would be
> much appreciated. http://tinyurl.com/4v3gc7v
>

> Thanks,

>

> Tom Sanders

>

> Lansing, MI. USA