Re: [CR]Lightweight bikes and numbers made

(Example: Bike Shops:R.E.W. Reynolds)

From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:56:07 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Lightweight bikes and numbers made
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 12/2/05 10:51:09 AM, heine93@earthlink.net writes:
>I need to clarify: in France, tubing is spec'd by the thickness in mm
>at the center. So a 9/6/9 tube is called 6/10 mm.
>
>What it really means nobody seems to know - after all, nobody cut
>open the tubes to measure wall thicknesses in the middle! And
>Reynolds tubing seems to have varied even for the same nominal
>sizes...

Interesting. I'd never seen tubes speced that way. Just goes to show you're never too old to learn something new. Phil Brown Will be riding my bike with a 4/10 top tube later in San Rafael, Calif.