Re: [CR]Availability of Aluminium bike tubes in standard dias.

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

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To: "Norris Lockley" <norris.lockley@talktalk.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Availability of Aluminium bike tubes in standard dias.
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:54:38 +0000


I propose a CR tube hunt/vintage ride/wine survey in Annecy this Spring! Les biciclettes Francaise preferred (gotta fix up my 68 PX-10!). Is the Euro as strong as the pound Sterling?

Ken Freeman
Ann Arbor, MI USA


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From: Norris Lockley

> I think that if anyone wanted to obtain a supply of these tubes,

\r?\n> Pechiney, the very large French aluminium processor would probably be

\r?\n> able to supply.It was this company that provided all the tubes to

\r?\n> companies such as Vitus over the decades.

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\r?\n> I think that the tubing ocmpany is based in Annecy..a very attractive

\r?\n> town on its own lake, and reputed, after a poll had been taken by a

\r?\n> magazine, to be the town in which the largest number of French folk

\r?\n> would prefer to live.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> twixt vineyards and the Alps it makes a great place to be when the Tour

\r?\n> is nearby.

\r?\n>

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\r?\n> Norris Lockley

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\r?\n> Settle UK