Ron Cooper has also been known to use all 4 suits on his forks .. . I believe the tangs were probably very common in days gone by.
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At Friday, 01 November 2002, Grant McLean <Grant.McLean@SportingLife.
ca> wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>Trivia time!
>
>Does anyone know the origin of using the "playing card" suit on
bicycles?
>Who went first? Did it just end up by chance that:
>
>Confente - Spade
>De Rosa - Heart
>Colnago - Club
>Pogliaghi - Diamond
>
>I have to admit that I had never seen the diamond detail in a Pogliaghi
>until earlier this week when list member Jack Bissell's beautiful
Pog. was
>shown, and it now fills in the blank for me. I know Mr. E-Richie
uses all
>the suits on this forks, do any list members know of other examples?
>
>Interesting history at: http://www.pagat.com/
><http://www.pagat.com/ipcs/history.html>
>
>Grant McLean
>
>Toronto, Canada
>
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