Re: [CR]Do my eyes deceive me? (Is this fork bent?)

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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 07:48:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: "jeffrey piwonka" <jmpiwonka@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Do my eyes deceive me? (Is this fork bent?)
To: CR discussion list <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, devotion finesse <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BLU113-W4914DF718A70AB254B1107F53F0@phx.gbl>


what size tire is on the bike? my brother has a yamaguchi that has clearances that tight at the downtube if he has a 23c on it...

by the way here is the sellers flickr. he has a few nice bikes. http://flickr.com/photos/80048824@N00/

Jeff Piwonka


--- On Sat, 10/4/08, devotion finesse wrote:


> From: devotion finesse <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR]Do my eyes deceive me? (Is this fork bent?)

\r?\n> To: "CR discussion list" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

\r?\n> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 1:23 AM

\r?\n> A member on another forum posted this pic of a Rossin track

\r?\n> bike:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/2907537886_d56640673d_b.jpg

\r?\n>

\r?\n> It appears to my eye that the fork is a wee bit bent...The

\r?\n> owner insists th

\r?\n> at it isn't.

\r?\n> The tire clearance between the downtube and front wheel

\r?\n> also looks suspicio

\r?\n> usly close.

\r?\n> Rossin track bikes are known to have steep headtube angles

\r?\n> (74-75 degrees).

\r?\n> ..Can anyone confirm that such a tight geometry is in fact

\r?\n> a standard featu

\r?\n> re of Rossin pistas? Or has the geometry of this bike been

\r?\n> "altered"?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Matthew Bowne

\r?\n> Brooklyn, New York

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