Hi Mitch:
Those are the early oval - that's all that was availabale form Reynolds at that point (not including the D-shaped and the round track types). Some material probably got removed and/or pushed around a bit during building of the fork....
Greg "Imperial Oval to the max" Parker Ann Arbor, Michigan
> So I wonder which Reynolds fork does my 70 or 71 Raleigh Pro have?
\r?\n> This is the Carlton built Raleigh Pro with the new-style fully sloping
\r?\n> crown. The blades are measure 27x17, so they are more oval than the
\r?\n> (old) Continental, but not as wide as the New Continental which
\r?\n> wouldn't be released until a few years after this Raleigh. The frame
\r?\n> decal says the forks are Reynolds and that seems certain even though
\r?\n> the fork decals are Carlton decals.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> (Speaking of track forks, some of the Columbus track forks are round
\r?\n> all the way up to the crown. But some Columbus track forks may begin
\r?\n> as the Columbus road ovals because they are 28x19 oval at the crown
\r?\n> and become round a couple inches below the crown.)
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Mitch Harris
\r?\n> Little Rock Canyon, Utah
\r?\n>
\r?\n> On 8/3/05, gpvb1@comcast.net wrote:
\r?\n> > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:21:26 -0700 (PDT)
\r?\n> > From: Fred Rafael Rednor
\r?\n> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> > Subject: Re: [CR] (New) Continental Oval vs. Imperial Oval
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > > When did Reynolds introduce the 29 x 16 fork blade?
\r?\n> > >
\r?\n> > > If this was originally described as 'Continental
\r?\n> > > Oval', surely it is to differentiate from the round
\r?\n> > > or D-shaped blades which were common in Britain.
\r?\n> > >
\r?\n> > David,
\r?\n> > To be honest, by the time I started seriously looking at
\r?\n> > this stuff, all I recall are the 29 x 16mm blades (which I
\r?\n> > think are really elliptical.) Actually, that's not quite true.
\r?\n> > There were the round blades but I remember seeing those on
\r?\n> > bikes at the Kissena Park Velodrome in New York.
\r?\n> > Then again, it was so long ago and I was too young to really
\r?\n> > appreciate what I was seeing, much less commit it to memory...
\r?\n> > Cheers,
\r?\n> > Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > About 1976 (per e-RICHIE, earlier this morning).
\r?\n> > The NOS tubing that I have, which was purchased directly from Reynolds in
\r?\n> 1974, has the early (Imperial) blades....
\r?\n> > Greg Parker
\r?\n> > Dexter, Michigan