Sunday, January 4, 2009

icy day = work in the laboratory











shite. icy rain all day, above zee-ro temps has us holed up instead of skiing. luckily for me, i have a most Righteous new fork to finally get onto my trusty curtlo road bike. this fork replaces a very old first-gen look HSC, which has been battered, was always known as a bit of a noodly short-lived kinda thing, and was kinda making me nervous. these things are not unknown to me - i am not that smart sometimes on these matters and rode a sibex Ti fork off road for 2 years to prove it - that thing used to scare rick W just riding around a parking lot !! slow learner i may be, but when i make it right . . . . . . . yeah yeah i do try and make up for it. for off-road i came across an incredibly sweet blacksheep ti fork last season from MK's bike sponsor, and this year i recently had the fork ya see here made up for me by john caletti. we worked together a lot on the design, which was inspired by the old yamaguchi aero-steel bikes from the 90's. as ya can see, john realy got into it, and fabricated the whole thing from scratch, with steel stock and aero-plane strut cro-mo i helped source. interestingly, aero-grade cro-mo is quite cheap compared to bike tubing . . . . go figure. if ya make it to the NAHMBS, he may have a very similar fork working on a show bike concept.



the fork is white, at this time. i'll work on a full pic of it on the curtlo soonish. but, it is Bad Ass and i am stoking hard. so screw you ice storm . . . i got bike stuff like this that can keep me rocking for a while.

1 comment:

Tim said...

TmonT is in the Hizzouse! Stay warm, have fun skiing and say hi to the family for me!