> Neill asks:
>
> Looks like he has tape on the non-driveside fork blade too,
> up near the crown. Whatsupwidat??
The story I heard was he broke his fork as he was leading the Tour de France (a bike race in France), and was going to repair it at a local blacksmith, but they wouldn't let him because his frozen fingers couldn't work the wing-nuts on the hearth-bellows himself, and you weren't allowed to get any help back then. (not like kids these days, got everything handed to 'em, don't get me started.)
So anyway, later he invented the quick-release bellows and so now no one need tape their forks back together anymore, thank God.
Oh and Neill, there is no "driveside" on a fork, so you're correct, it is on the non-driveside, or rather one of the two non-drivesides, in this case the left non-driveside. Whatsupwidat indeed.
Seriously,
Mark Bulgier Seattle WA which sounds like Settle UK but is actually no where near there, I think.