Re: [CR]Italian lightweight tubing use

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

From: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
Subject: Re: [CR]Italian lightweight tubing use
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:42:25 +0000

Falck tubing was still used at least into the 80's. My first 'good' bike (as opposed to the Peugeot that I owned before that) was a Falck-tubed Olympia (the second oldest Italian continuously existing bicycle company). I purchased the bike in 1978 and it was a delightful bike. I readily preferred it to the, twice as expensive, Colnago that I got to replace it.

A number of people opined that the 1970's Legnano that I had for sale at le cirque was made with a special lightweight Falck tubing (no other frame decals are to be found on the bike and it seems quite a bit lighter than most other Legnano bikes.)

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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ