The deal, as I recall, is that most forks are bent after the dropouts are brazed in. This leaves a straight section above the dropouts since the bender can only get so close to them. All of the custom builders who do the pretty, low curve bend the blades individually before attaching the dropouts then cut off the inevitable straight section to get that nice constant curve. Lots of extra work, and the two blades need to be a close match...
Doug On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:33 AM, JimD <[email protected]> wrote: > > With regards to forks and bends: > > Mark Nobillette made my custom and I'm thinking the fork bend on that is > pretty darn nice. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterdogs/3226115549/in/set-72157604146015375/ > > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterdogs/3226115549/in/set-72157604146015375/> > -JimD > > who hasn't seen anything nearly as pretty as a Riv fork on any MCRB. > > > On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:52 AM, JoelMatthews wrote: > > > Thank you for the link. It is slowly coming back to me. I believe > the answer is that the particular machine Riv has access to in Taiwan > is set for a different sort of bend. Apparently you would have to buy > a new machine - or significantly modify the existing machine - to get > what Grant wants. > > On my Waterford built AHH the fork was made by Nobillette who uses a > hand rig not at the Waterford factory. Mine was the first batch. I > do not know whether Nobillette still makes the forks for the current > AHH and Bombadils (which I understand are also Wateford built) > > On Aug 21, 11:43 am, cm <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is a bit of discussion on the Bleriot fork (Taiwan) vs the > Saluki/ AHH fork (Japan) here: > > http://www.cyclofiend.com/Images/rbw/rr37_pg15.jpg > > It covers some of the challenges-- though I think there was more fork > talk in a separate article, but I dont have access to the Readers > right now. > > Cheers! > cm > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
