As far as I know the seat tube is always sinlge butt. ;-)
Merry Christmas (We fat, pampered Europeans celebrate x-mas eve, not the morning of the 25th. That is a phenomenon of the english speaking world; it also means that you have more time to buy late presents ... )
kim klakow berlin, germany: dry, but cold and some hoar frost on the roofs.
> Schwinn made different decals.
>
> Actually I think the seat tube is actually a single butt also. So there
> are
> only two truly "double butted" tubes!
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DTSHIFTER@aol.com>
> To: <lists@PeterWhiteCycles.com>; <jb@velostuf.com>;
> <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Raleigh Int'l- all tubes butted?
>
>
> > John Barron wrote:
> >
> >
> > Question-
> >
> >
> > Does a Raleigh International have all the tubes butted 531, or just the
> main
> > tubes?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > And Peter White responded:
> >
> > << All tubes butted is a bit of a misnomer. The main triangle are
> butted.
> But
> >
> > the seat stays and chainstays I believe are tapered. I don't know of any
> >
> > butted seat stays or chainstays. >>
> >
> > Wasn't there a bit of a "to do" about this many years ago? So much so
> that
> > Reynolds changed their decals from..."Double Butted Tubes, Forks and
> > Stays......" to a more precise....."Forks, Stays, and Double Butted
> Main
> Tubes"?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chuck Brooks
> > Malta, NY
> >
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