[CR]ORIGIN OF COLUMBUS SLX???

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From: <Bikerdaver@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:48:40 EDT
To: jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net, d.kennard@adelphia.net
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: gillies@cs.ubc.ca
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]ORIGIN OF COLUMBUS SLX???

I think the list may have already discussed this, but I can recall the details. When and on what bike(s) did SLX first show up?? I know that columbus "rifling" on steerer tubes goes way back before the 70s, but when did SLX "officially" come out?
cheers-
Dave Anderson
Cut Bank MT