| 1986 | www.bmxmuseum.com, march 2006: Linn Kastan, owner and designer for Redline bike, sold Redline in 1986. At that time he started his own company, Kastan. The bike were similar to Redline, with some unique design features. Still going today, this company makes great bikes. Kastan Strut (one-legged) fork kastanbmx.tripod.com: Why are there right handed and left handed struts ? Linn Kastan: The question you asked about the right and left hand struts has a simple, but I'm afraid not to exciting answer. When I sold REDLINE, I had left over, about a thousand sets of tapered fork blades that I had no use for. They were tapered and butted 4130 from Ishiwata in Japan. They were already machined right and left and those ended up being struts. I don't think I've ever talked about that before. Sorry it wasn't something more technical. |
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