Marcus in USMA 20950 displayed intense misdirected emotion. The British bicycle industry has from its beginning been totally non-metric. The usual tire diameter was 28" or 26" with a 1-3/8" cross section. I believe European manufacturers have copied some of the imperial dimensions, such as chain link length.
Marcus wrote: >If you surf www.cannondale.com and the specific URL (among others...): >http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/02/cusa/model-2TR8.html >you'll notice the following reference under "fork": >' TIG-welded chromoly, 1 1/8" (SIC) ' > >What made me fume is the fact that such dimension (diameter) has always >been hard metric in this industry (road bike) - 28 mm in this case. Yet, >these guys are doing the same thing the computer industry is doing with >the 3 1/2" floppy size crap. > >I sent them an e-mail to ALL their customer support links (you can easily >get them by looking under contact us or something like that in their >website) and this is what they responded (the representative in Europe, >BTW!...): Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
