Re: [CR]Gran Prix fork

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

From: "Pete Geurds" <raleighpro@dejazzd.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <20050211045929.11495.qmail@web54503.mail.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Gran Prix fork
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:42:21 -0500


From: "Chuck Kichline" <chuck_kichline@yahoo.com>
> I picked a ~73 Raleigh Gran Prix out of the gutter. BUT the front
> fork is one of the Raleigh "plugged cross tube" forks that I've only
> seen on three speeds before. Paint matches, but I'm suspicious that
> it's telling me that the bike has had a mishap.
> Any chance that they used that fork on a GP?

I'd be suspcious too. Is it Coffee, Bronze Green, or another color used on both the Sports and lightweights?

Pete "sounds like something I'd do" Geurds Douglassville, Pa