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Old 07-27-12 | 06:49 PM
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Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...

I have a Lambert crank on my Lambert and a TA crank on my Cera, and I cannot believel the rumor that the Lambert crank was made by TA. The Lambert crank is obviously copied from the TA but it is a very cheap copy and it is fundamentally different; different taper, different extractor thread, different hardware, and cheesier in every way. I'm not dissing it, though. I'm happy to have mine, and I ride it. I filed a taper into it, though, and use a TA ring.

That Viking is very cool. I don't know if I'd be reckless enough to ride the QR fork; do some research, though. The forks came in a few different versions, and the ones that are liable to fail are pretty easy to recognize if I understand what I read.
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