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…as a cross-check · The frame itself carries softer date evidence. Tubing transfers — Reynolds 531 in its several forms, later Reynolds 753, Columbus and the rest — changed design over the years, and both the…

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…Product Innovation · The Paramount, still built to 1930s designs, was modernized with Reynolds 531 double-butted tubing, Nervex lugsets and Campagnolo derailleurs. None of the technology reached the mass-market…

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…to minimize the oxidative effects of time. Specific to cycling, companies like Reynolds Technology have developed modern, seamless steel (yes, steel) tubes like Reynolds 853 that allow builders to air…

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…within their budget. If that meant sacrificing decorative details, using straight-gauge Reynolds instead of lighter double-butted stock, or mounting good but not exalted hubs and saddles, he would do it. It was…

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…frame. Lugged, Chicago. The Paramount, hand-built from 1938 and, from 1957, of Reynolds 531 with Nervex lugs. In 1976 Schwinn described "low temperature gas brazing" with silver solder. Lugged, imported.

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…with front and rear racks and canvas panniers, with an option to order the frame in Reynolds 531 tubing. Iimura designs custom bikes, usually in the French randonneur mode, which he assigns to ateliers in Japan…

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…were quite a few nice finds in the mix: A minty fresh Peugeot PX-10, a Carlton with Reynolds 531 tubing, and a newer Raleigh frame and fork. There was one frameset that really caught my attention, though. It was…

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…1950s and 1960s were named "Special." Frames of this era were constructed with either Reynolds 531 tubing or Columbus double butted steel with French and Swiss lugs. Until the early 1960s, all Masis were hand made…

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…Rolls-Royce works. With four builders producing roughly 1,000 frames a year, it proved Reynolds 753 tubing and supplied the TI-Raleigh team from the 1975 season. 1975 · Production Peak · Raleigh sold 599,000…

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…sponsorship of the TI-Raleigh team put its gears on Raleigh's whole range of Reynolds 531 bicycles. A Masi brochure from California put it most memorably: the bicycles came with Campagnolo components…

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…material of choice from almost the beginning of his frame manufacturing; he started with Reynolds tubing, but switched to Columbus shortly thereafter. Not long afterward, the classic Cinelli logo underwent a major…

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…Raleigh was itself bought by the British Tube Investment Group, or TI, in 1960. TI owned Reynolds Tubing and Sturmey-Archer, maker of the famous internal hub gears, and it shuffled Brooks first into its automotive…

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…is introduced; it becomes a professional icon for decades, famous for its lightweight Reynolds 531 steel frame. 1955 · Production Peak · The Beaulieu plant reaches its peak historical output, turning out 220,000…

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…Acquisition · Raleigh was bought by the British Tube Investment Group (TI), owner of Reynolds Tubing and Sturmey-Archer, which moved Brooks first into its automotive division and then into its bicycle division.

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…sponsorship of the TI-Raleigh team put its gears on Raleigh's whole range of Reynolds 531 bicycles. 1978–1979 · Product Revision · A redesign forced by regulation. "Between 1978 and 1979 Campagnolo…

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…Close-up photographs of the frame's lugwork and fittings, from the head tube badge and Reynolds tubing decal to the seat cluster and rear dropout, showing the hand-finished lug detailing typical of a British…

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…all along. According to Hobbs of Barbican's 1937 catalog, the Continental model featured Reynolds 531 steel, Continental-type fork crown, Dunlop tires and various other accouterments such as an oil gun and air pump.

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…to catch up with lugs, and did so only after the development of supersteels such as Reynolds 853. And after you ride a few bikes of different types, you realize that in many cases, a well-made lugged steel bike…

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…and visual testament to his mastery of heat and steel, most often rendered in the finest Reynolds 531 or Vitus tubing. The Rider’s Innovator · What truly separates a constructeur from a mere frame builder is an…

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…the Speciale Corsa, all Masis of this era were named "Special," built with either Reynolds 531 tubing or Columbus double butted steel with French and Swiss lugs. until the early 1960s · Production Method…

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…racers. There were different price points. All the bikes I have seen from this era have Reynolds and maybe Accles and Pollack Tubing and Brampton lugs. I have seen a picture of a Drysdale dealer in upstate NY with…

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…randonneuse placed first under Gaillard, built by the Grenoble constructeur on brazed Reynolds tubing with a duralumin-framed Idéale saddle, MAFAC brakes, a Cyclo derailleur, a light-alloy Stronglight chainset…

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…Catalog · The Hobbs of Barbican catalog featured the Continental model, built with Reynolds 531 steel, a Continental-type fork crown, Dunlop tires and accessories such as an oil gun and air pump. The catalog…

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…different types of tangs and most Hetchins models featured them. Around that same time, Reynolds began fabricating fluted and reinforced seat tubes specifically for Hetchins models, used on the model 12 (also called…

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…The Ebykr Identify and Date series also covers Schwinn, Peugeot, Raleigh, Fuji and Reynolds tubing, with every guide gathered on the Identify and Date hub. Article Sources (Click to Expand)+ · Bianchi catalogs…

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…Cordier and Mme Bourgeois had finished third at Chanteloup that year: a short frame of Reynolds tubes with double triangulation, a J. Moyne five-speed freewheel, a Herse front derailleur, Maxi-C.A.R. tandem hubs…

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…one body. 4. Tubeset Mismatches · While consumer models carried official Columbus or Reynolds tubing decals corresponding to a single tubeset family (all Columbus SL, for example), team builds often mixed gauges.

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…had used from almost the beginning of his frame manufacturing after starting out with Reynolds tubing. 1980 · BMX Line · Period advertisements show Cinelli's BMX line built on Columbus double-butted tubing and…

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