Jan: You well know that Bob Freeman is close to you and wont be leaving town anytime in the near future. I can loan you a ball peen hammer to go and bust some knee caps. I can find my way around Portland too. Bruce
Bruce Thomson Spokane WA 99204 (509) 747 4314 Masi3v4me@yahoo.com rapidfire10ring@hotmail.com
________________________________ From: Jan Heine <heine94@earthlink.net> To: "raleypc@netzero.net" <raleypc@netzero.net>; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 7:50:59 PM Subject: Re: [CR]WTB: Cinelli SC Fork (Yea Right!)
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
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