Re: [CR] This Paramount doesn't pass the smell test

(Example: Framebuilders:Alberto Masi)

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:41:19 -0500
From: "Peter Jon White" <lists@peterwhitecycles.com>
To: Val and Kevin Ko <keiko5@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] This Paramount doesn't pass the smell test
References: <MONKEYFOODKi3s1wsXZ000003c0@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>
In-Reply-To:
cc: 'classicrendezvous' <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Val and Kevin Ko wrote:
> Seller says "there is the common flaking of the finish behind the head tube
> on the top tube which was cased by vibration from the factory fork. This
> phenomenon happens to nearly every chrome bike prior to 1971 that retained
> the factory fork." It looks to me from the pictures that the bike was the
> victim of a front end collision and the forks are badly bent, and the top
> tube is probably damaged, or at least stressed enough to damage the chrome.
> Smells fishy to me!
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
> &rd=1
>

There's nothing obviously wrong with the frame. But the fork is clearly bent backwards slightly at the crown.

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