Re: [CR]Need link to twin-plate crown photos

(Example: Production Builders:Tonard)

From: <"richardsachs@juno.com">
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:37:06 GMT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Need link to twin-plate crown photos


this (below) is my intuitive thinking, (and some more of it can be read at the puff piece at this link:) http://www.richardsachs.com/articles/rsachscrown.html

in the old days, forks were primitively made and made of lower tech materials. to combat the ever present danger of breakage, reinforcements were added inside the crown as a way of adding a "butted" are to the part of the fork that normally failed. a thin sheet of metal is all that is needed to effectively strengthen up the area, as oppossed to using a heavier guage blade; doing former safeguards the fork (i think...) and doing the latter makes it too heavy. and doin' the tighten up makes me giddy. and eating twizzlers makes mouths happy.
e-RICHIE
chester, ct
2025/4


-- PBridge130@aol.com wrote:


Thanks very much -- very worthwhile. Could you address the structural importance of the tangs?

Peter Bridge DenCO

In a message dated 1/22/2005 8:17:41 AM Mountain Standard Time, richardsachs@juno.com writes:

see pic 1-3 at this link as an example of one of the faema era masi-ish crowns that merckx's frames had: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bobbesrs/album?.dir=7a45&.src=ph&store=&prodid=& .done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bobbesrs/my_photos