Help ID this switch blade type rigid fork

[Thunderchild]

Cleaning out the mancave. Moving to other projects and will be putting this fork up for sell. I rescued it from a pawn shop a few years ago (You guys across the pond have a different name for pawn shops?) Pretty sure it is a Tange Switchblade. Is there anymore to know beyond that? Do the heart shaped details on the inside of each fork leg indicate anything? They also have fender eyelets.

A bit of info can be read here.

http://forums.mtbr.com/frame-building/f ... 23471.html


Thanks
Thunderchild

 

[Russell]

hearts = Tange, don't they?

 

[sancho]

hearts = Tange, don't they?

I don't think that fork was made by Tange (and definitely not Bontrager).

 

[sylus]

The heart reminded me of igleheart

http://igleheartcustomframesandforks.com/

 

[sancho]

I'm about 99% sure these were made in Asia

 

[ilar0407]

any advice

 

[matthew71]

I think they are the far east copy,s .apparently they weigh a bomb

 

[monsterfatuk]

think the heart was there for a stop ,but cant quite remember who built them..they do look like switchblades though

 

[cannondale king]

there tange switch blades both pairs ive had have had the heart stops and ive seen another nos in box that hearts and another that was nos that had a spear head arrow :shock: the arrow one was tange prestige the heart was i think tange infinity tubing

 

[taffy]

They look like the type that were OE on some 91 /92 Haro's - is there an allen head bolt to hold the steerer tube in at the back?