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/ -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 <chrispmur...@hotmail.com> 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 rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
