In a message dated 9/26/2002 1:21:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, joebz@optonline.net writes:
<< My death fork broke the first day!!!! Had something to do with running into a parked car looking down at the @#$% shifter not working. >>
Ha! Hard to blame the fork...
BUT... Ken Toda showed me something I hadn't seen in the old days, a Lambert fork disassembled! He bought a Lambert on the Internet just for the fun of it and began investigating the construction. What an eye opener! I am frankly amazed they ever thought it would work! The fork legs and crown are one casting (a rather semi crude one at that) with a stub or plug extending upwards maybe 4 inches... then the steel steerer tube slides down over that plug, and the whole deal is secured by wedge pins (I am not sure that's what they are called.. those perhaps 1/16" ~ 1/8" split/round rolls of steel that are interference fits..) No bonding or threading at all.
Maybe Ken can send me a digital picture of this for all to see...
It is truly a miracle your forks held up until you ran into that car! I had a friend that road a fork like that in his first issue Lambert fairly actively for over 10 years! Yikes!
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina