Re: [CR] Frejus now Falck now steer tubes

Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:48:16 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
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Subject: Re: [CR] Frejus now Falck now steer tubes

On 11/26/2009 03:10 PM, verktyg wrote:
> It's possible that Falck and others made riffled steerers in those days
> too but I seem to remember that Columbus had a patent on it.

If they did have a patent they didn't enforce it very well. Vitus, Tange and Ishiwata all made rifled steer tubes back in the day.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA