| Tange High Tensile Butted Tubing?
The 56cm Sekai 2400 road bike that I found in a dumpster a few weeks ago has
this printed on its seat tube decal:
Tange High Tensile Butted Tubing
Never heard of such a thing. Why bother butting high-ten steel?
IIRC, the Sekai 2400 was a pretty decent Japanese-made bike in the mid-80's.
It has Suzue/Sekai hubs, welded-and-ground 27" (630 mm) Araya rims, Sugino
Super Maxy cranks (cold-forged?). Too bad about the frame - it's pretty
scratched up, but no metal damage. Looks straight. Needs paint. It has
forged dropouts, nice lugwork, flat-crowned fork, normal reach brakes,
plenty of fender clearance, and other nice features. I was going to build a
commuter out of it. Not sure how much energy I want to expend on a high-ten
frame though. Hmm.
Comments, ideas or opinions?
Barry
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