Jim Merz received this, too. The fork was prefab, and he cut the steerer
out so that he could build the bike to his own size for test ride purposes!
I have pictures in case Dale is ever interested for a Merz page. I think
the other set became a track bike for then national team member John
Beckman.
David Feldman
> In a message dated 6/19/01 5:31:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Hilary.Stone@Tesco.net writes:
>
> << NOS Sugino Aero Mighty aero shaped seatpin marked for Tange tubing. I
> presume this is from the early 1980s but which tubing set. >>
>
> Tange brought out an aero bike tubing set specifically to be in
partnership
> with the Shimano Ax components. I am sure that is the tubing intended to
> receive that seat post of yours. (Jerry Moos was looking for something
like
> that a few months ago!)
>
> I remember in 1981, Tange sent two sets of this tubing, complete with
lugs,
> to select frame builders all around the USA (and beyond?) They requested
> that the builders make bicycles in their own style and present them at the
> New York International bike show. My friend McLean Fonvielle (Silk Hope &
> McLean marques.) received these tube sets, but he didn't like them much
(he
> was very conservative!) and never used them. I later inherited them and
built
> a time trial bike from one set.. (It, with some small help from a certain
Mr.
> Chris Blake, won the NC State TT championship that year!)
>
> The tubing is pretty clunky.. IF it is butted, it must have started as a
> thick gauge! The Onion River /Shimano team of that same era had 14 special
> Tomasinis built with that tubing and I have one of the team bikes today.
In
> my Shimano AX page, there is a picture taken by Mike Richardson in 1982 of
> Wayne Stetina and David Ware, riding these aero tubed AX equipped
> Tomasinis... The word was that Irio Tomasini said he would never use that
> tubing again!
>
> Dale Brown
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