It reminded me of the 1993 Bridgestone Catalog.  Thanks to Sheldon
Brown (R.I.P.) for saving it for us:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/bridgestone/1993/pages/49.htm



On Apr 10, 7:06 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 18:23 -0700, Aaron Thomas wrote:
> > Has anyone noticed the photo in rotation on the Riv site?
>
> >http://asset2.rivbike.com/assets/payloads/256/original_crowns.jpg
>
> > The caption is "battered fork crown trees ready for dewaxing". What
> > exactly does all of that mean? Just curious.
>
> Fork crowns are cast using the lost wax process, aren't they?  If so, a
> "tree" would be the mold and the sprue that brings the molten steel into
> the mold, which looks like a tree.  

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