Re: [CR]Early 70s Fuji Frame Material

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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:52:22 -0400
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Early 70s Fuji Frame Material
To: Forbes Bagatelle-Black <diarmaede@yahoo.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <20050620211305.56474.qmail@web32805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


The Fuji S-10-S was straight guage carbon steel tubing. The double butted tubing migrated down the line over the years. An S-12-S LTD had cromoly main tubes for example.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: Forbes Bagatelle-Black
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:13 PM
Subject: [CR]Early 70s Fuji Frame Material



> Hi All,
>
> I've searched high and low, but I cannot find anything
> which tells me the frame material on a Fuji Special
> Road Racer (ss #F8H08302). I think this was a
> pre-Valite model, and I suspect it was made from high
> tensile. Could it have been cro-moly?
>
> Any information on this bike and other lugged Fujis
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Forbes Bagatelle-Black
> Santa Clarita, CA
>
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