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04-27-05, 02:15 PM
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Forks
is there any difference in having straight forks rather than curved ones,
im looking for some straight steel forks (in the uk)
anyone know any good makes? the only straight ones i can find are all carbon, and im not into crabon really.
im looking for some straight steel forks (in the uk)
anyone know any good makes? the only straight ones i can find are all carbon, and im not into crabon really.
04-27-05, 02:24 PM
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There is This Not in the UK but I think they ship overseas. I have one and love it.
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04-27-05, 02:31 PM
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if you use a size small i know of a shop here that might still have a colnago steel road fork for 20-30 pounds.pm me if that is tempting.. or ask vicious cycles or jonny cycles or walker cycles.. do you want me to go on? 
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the rumor is straight blade forks are a little more harsh than curved. the idea is the road vibration goes straght to the bars. where as curved blades provide a little more flex. is it true? who knows?
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Sounds right but I don't know *****
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04-28-05, 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by potus
the rumor is straight blade forks are a little more harsh than curved. the idea is the road vibration goes straght to the bars. where as curved blades provide a little more flex. is it true? who knows?
04-28-05, 07:34 AM
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hey, great story. real visual and I enjoyed the absurd possiblity of why and how the sexiest fork was born
Originally Posted by Walkercycles
Ernesto decided one day to save money, so he said " what one operation in the framebuilding process can we eliminate to save bith time AND money?"
Many suggestions we given and when the day was done, he had secided to elminate the raking of the fork blades. "Surely we could get fork crowns cast in our desired offset" Ernesto said. "Hmmmmm, 1 fork rake for all my bikes, that will save time and money". And so the story goes on by the many thousands of pro victories on Ernesto's straight bladed fork, which began as an idea to streamline his framebuilding process.
did it happen that way? Yes...did i make up the phrases, you betcha...but a story like this has to have some sort of grammatical flair...
DW
Many suggestions we given and when the day was done, he had secided to elminate the raking of the fork blades. "Surely we could get fork crowns cast in our desired offset" Ernesto said. "Hmmmmm, 1 fork rake for all my bikes, that will save time and money". And so the story goes on by the many thousands of pro victories on Ernesto's straight bladed fork, which began as an idea to streamline his framebuilding process.
did it happen that way? Yes...did i make up the phrases, you betcha...but a story like this has to have some sort of grammatical flair...
DW
