Wednesday 5 April 2006

Trivia...

It struck me that this foto has a bit of historic trivia in it...



who is the rider?
what frame is that?
who made those forks?
etc

4 comments:

  1. All I can tell you is that the forks are "Bottema skate park forks" made by Jeoff Bottema. I could take a guess at Eddie Fiola on a Torker frame. I think it was only Torkers and Haros (first made my Torker) who had double top tubes back then.

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  2. Did Jeff Bottema make any frames or just those forks? never saw the point of the extended fork legs but Ron Wilkerson must have liked it as he used the same on his forks along with the peg boss below axle level which felt 'well different' :-)

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  3. Even tho there were quite a few people who made forks that extended below the axle, I heard that the first WAL forks were like that cos Ron got a good deal on 26" forks that were all ready part made. He didnt even cut the bottom off, he just welded the dropouts on higher up!

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  4. Haha!! great stuff :D

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