Re: [CR]OT Columbus tubing

(Example: Framebuilding)

From: "Bob Reid" <flying_scot@btopenworld.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <28908.1073860225@www66.gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]OT Columbus tubing
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 22:44:50 -0000
Organization: The Flying Scot


This sounds distinctly like a frame Salmon / Salomon (sp)? The same (swiss?) company who produce the thin aluminium-alloy mudguards that look like they've been made by a curtain track manufacturer. It was heavilly ribbed all over, and finished in white and coral pink, fading from white to pink in a lattice effect. Kinda like Brian Baylis might spray through a set of fishnet stockings.... It also was so short a wheelbase, the tread of the tyre sat in a hollow depression in the seat tube.... Probably (at a guess) from the mid to late 80s

An exceptionally lightweight frame but about the worst paint job you've ever seen...

Bob Reid Stonehaven Scotland

BTW If Scwinn didn't recognise the word "cotter" what did they call cotterless cranks ?


----- Original Message -----
From: kim klakow
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: [CR]OT Columbus tubing



> Hi all,
>
> I have a bike with columbus tubing which I do not know the name of. It is
> ridged on the outside (five ridges each a good cm wide, lenghtwise). What was
> this called and from when might it be?
>
> Thanks,
> kim klakow
> Berlin, germany
>
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