In a message dated 5/17/01 3:24:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Cyncrest@cs.com writes:
> CR's anybody have any info on the quality of Reynolds "501" ,and what
> year
> did the bike manufactures begin using it. One of my French (Peuqeot)
> 1980's
> model 12 spd has the sticker. It seems to be fairly light weight. Any
> feed
>
A recently aquired Trek 500 has this tubing. The sticker reads:
"Guaranteed Built with Reynolds 501 Chromalloy-M butted frame tubes"
on the nice green/black/gold sticker affixed just above the bottom bracket on the seat tube. This bike has the second revision headbadge, so it was built 1984 - 1987. I guess that means it is just barely "non-Classique", though it is lugged steel.
Glenn Jordan - Durham, NC