Originally Posted by
Velo Mule
That is incredibly impressive considering how many forks Tange was turning out. So many bicycle makers used Tange forks. Did they run three shifts? Or was this just for the lower production 531 forks?
Bill described it to me as their Cr-Mo fork building room, department, whatever. But not where the cheap forks were made. Not sure if he toured that too, but it was the Cr-Mo department he was interested in, the people that made the forks he was buying. Yes when they made 531 forks for Trek it was technically not Cr-Mo (it was Mn-Mo) but that's a 'distinction without a difference'.
