Saw somewhere on the group that Waterford's frame-building process involved holding the frame in such a way as to make it difficult to drill and/or thread the fender 'boss under the bridge. Merely parroting; I don't know enough to know whether this makes sense. But I do like appearing knowledgable!
Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean thrilled to be a 60cm 2TT Hillborne owner If offered my choice of a 2nd bike right now, it'd be a 2nd 60cm Hillborne of any kind On Sep 3, 11:03 am, Earl Grey <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure about the Sam forks. I think the Hunqa forks were supposed to > be Toyo-built. That said, I have a first run (Taiwanese?) Sam (bought > Sept 09), which has the 3 dot fork crown, slender fork blades, and > cantilevers (but has the seatstay bridge with the hole underneath for > direct fender mounting w/o sliding bracket). For what it's worth, but > it's curious that my Taiwan Sam is more similar to the Waterford Sam > than the Taiwan Sam in the photos. > > I love my Sam, and while I agree that all the changes are trivial, I > personally do really appreciate the ability to mount a rear fender > directly. Don't know why Waterford won't use those seatstay bridges. > > Gernot > > On Sep 2, 2:03 am, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Did I read somewhere that the Maxway frame uses a Toyo built fork? Toyo > > did a > > fine job on prior forks, so one wonders why the one pictured by Bryan seems > > "stockier." > > > To be honest, both bikes look great to me. I like the paint on the Maxway a > > bit > > better, but agree that the Waterford crown is nicer. -- 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.
