Re: [CR]Reynolds 453

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From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Reynolds 453
To: fred_rednor@yahoo.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <20021230031512.97424.qmail@web11906.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:47:42 -0500

Well at least one other person thought it existed on the old Menotomy list- A real mystery. __________ Subject: reynolds 453 Entered on: Mar 27, 1998 21:26 Entered by: Bill () Message: Has anyone heard of Renolds 453 double butted tubing? I have a Canadian made Velosport about 20 years old with a Reynolds sticker. I Emailed Reynolds and they said there is no such thing. ____________

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Rafael Rednor
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 10:15 PM
Subject: [CR]Reynolds 453



> That's not a typographical error, I'm really asking about
> Reynolds Four-Five-Three. I was looking at a '70s era Raleigh
> frame that brother Wayne Bingham was building up for his wife
> when I noticed this unusual Reynolds decal.
> Was this some sort of special tubing made expressly for
> Raleigh; was it "ordinary" chrome-moly tubing; or what? The
> decal looks like one of the simpler 531 insignias - i.e. it
> says "Reynolds 453 Butted Frame Tubes" - except for the obvious
> difference in the digits.
> Best regards,
> Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
>
>
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