[CR]Re: Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel (Wilson and Schmidt)

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:27:54 -0500
From: <wilsonjw50@aol.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel (Wilson and Schmidt)

Don wrote: <It is a merger of two useful things so that there can be no practical function in either except experiencing the aesthetics of there conjoined form. He could have used any fork, but he probably liked the idea of the lean curviness of the blades to contradict with the blockiness of the stool. Now the important question: was it a Reynolds 531 fork, or Dural? :-)> And Chuck: <It serves no practical function other than to true bicycle wheels that is.> Hey, I had a home truing stand very similar to that way back when! But since I needed the stool, I replaced it with an old Ford flywheel. Maybe it would still qualify as a contradiction. By the way, the fork shown looks very much like a spare Schwinn Paramount fork I have, 531/Nervex with the more extreme (touring?) rake. John Wilson Greensburg, PA, formerly Asheville, NC