In a message dated 7/28/2002 7:25:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, PBridge130@aol.com writes:
I don't think anyone mentioned this one in the Alan discussion. >>
Yes, pushing out of our range but I guess it is semi classic... I have one of these Colnago DuAls in a 55 CM hanging brand new in my store as it has for umpteen years! 'Course Alan made Colnago's first carbon bike, those dual down tube, Carbon wrapped aluminum jobs...
I was (and still am to a degree) impressed at the lengths Colnago got Alan to go to in these frames. The rear drops, front drops and seat cluster are close to other Alans, but the dual down tubes are fun and the fork is way cool. It cannot be seen in those pictures but at that time Colnago was calling all his steel fork crowns "Patented Anti Vibration." On these Alan made Colnago design aluminum forks, they duplicated the extreme extension of the fork crown down the inside of the fork blades so as to be shallow looking on the outside yet forming deep reinforcements on the insides. Pretty neat and different from others before it. .(Of course I get jazzed by design details that would probably put others to sleep!)
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