At 10:14 PM +0000 11/5/08, raleypc@netzero.net wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>I know this is very much a long shot but does anyone happen to have an o
>phan fork for a 1970ish Cinelli SC? The frame is a 58 c-to-c.
>I had sent the original fork to an apparently dishonest (or at least dis
>honorable) painter in Portland for a respray and I have been unable to c
>ontact him in over a year. My Certified letters were returned undelivera
>ble and his telephone is disconnected, etc. I have to assume the fork is
> gone.
>The lesson here is to be very careful who you send your treasured bicycl
>e parts to especially if they are 3000 miles away! In my case this pain
>ter had originally painted the frame so I thought that he would be best
>able to to match the paint on the fork that I had rechromed.
Who is the painter? Perhaps somebody in Portland can retrieve the fork for you, and you pay them a reward...
Jan Heine
Editor
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