[CR]re: new old forks

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In-Reply-To: <MNEHKEHFNPCKCDMPCIDLOECFCEAA.Robert.Cohen@t-online.de>
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:47:13 -0400
To: Robert.Cohen@t-online.de (Robert Cohen), <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: [CR]re: new old forks


That young whippersnapper Robert Cohen wrote:
>Regarding the Colnago timeline - 1987: The birth of Colnago?s Precisa fork
>with straight blades, a major revolution in fork designs.

UGGGGGG-leeeee!
>Straight bladed forks had been around since at least the thirties.
>
>The forks didn't catch on with the "old timers" because they pounded them
>just like they do today.
>
>In cycling, most things new, are pretty old.

Actually, straight forks go back probably about 130 years, curved forks didn't come in until probably the 1880s.

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