fork tubes

[jimbem]

I'm not sure if this post will be of much help to people but thought i should post it anyways. I helped move thousands of fork tubes the last 2 days. From an old fork company in Evanston Illinois. The company is called Franks Forks. They've been in business since 1966. Some of what i moved were over 680 different tubes from many makes and models of bikes that they keep in stock to be able to replicate them if someone asks for an od ball tube. They are moving to 15 mikes south of Memphis ( sorry I didn't write down the name of the town) and will be back up and operating this fall

 

[PGlaves]

I'm not sure if this post will be of much help to people but thought i should post it anyways. I helped move thousands of fork tubes the last 2 days. From an old fork company in Evanston Illinois. The company is called Franks Forks. They've been in business since 1966. Some of what i moved were over 680 different tubes from many makes and models of bikes that they keep in stock to be able to replicate them if someone asks for an od ball tube. They are moving to 15 mikes south of Memphis ( sorry I didn't write down the name of the town) and will be back up and operating this fall

Good to know. Back several years this was the go-to shop for replacement fork tubes on Airheads. It may still be.

 

[barryg]

Forking by Frank. I stopped in there years ago. Pretty much a one off place. Frank was long gone and his wife kinda ran the place. The main guy who manufactured the BMW stuff was temporarily out of the shop. All their equipment was pretty much really old and kinda decrepit. Looking around I found an old note card sitting on the lathe. I picked it up and looked at it. The text was written in plain pencil same as the crude print of the fork. Wow, really old school. This place had never modernized. Well if you can do top shelf work with old equipment and prints, good for you.