It is all aluminum. DUALL designated Dual (downtubes) Aluminum. I have two other ALAN-made frames, and the tubing material and finish is essentially the same as those, but the design is different. Carbon ALAN frames, at least the early ones, had had black maintubes which I believe were carbon laminations over aluminum tubes, but the lugs and stays were aluminum. This can be a little deceptive, however, as the ALAN Super Record was available in several anodized colors, including black, which is easy to mistake for the carbon model from 20 ft away.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, Texas, USA
Anthony Kinder <antct1@tpg.com.au> wrote: Jerry,
Do you know if the tubes are aluminium, titanium or carbon? I suspect the latter looking at the tubing and lug joins. If so, it is one of the early Colnago uses of Carbon tubing and was marketed as a "Carbitubo". The also made until mid 90's a Bi-Titanio in the same format in Titanium but the lugwork is not present. Given these were around 1990, if you wanted to contact me off list I can give you some examples of ones I have and have restored.
Anthony Kinder
Perth, Western Australia
eBay alias: RetroColnago
> Just bought this bike, which the CR website identifies as a Colnago DUALL.
>
>
> http://ebay.com/
>
> Only two bids, and the first one was the starting minimum. Pretty good
> pictures, but the seller doesn't seem to know much about the bike, and has
> a less than perfect command of English, even though he is in California.
> He did not identify the model.
>
> The CR site does not say what years this model was made. Anyone know?
> It also shows a frame set only. I'm thinking the circa 1990 Dura Ace/600
> with indexed DT shifters may be too new for this frame. Would C-Record
> perhaps be appropriate?
>
> The CR website also implies that, even though this frame was made by
> ALAN, it was a design unique to Colnago. Does this mean this frame never
> appeared with ALAN decals or Guercotti, or others who sold rebadged ALAN
> frames? Speaking of decals, note that unlike the frame on the CR site,
> this one carries a Saronni decal on the toptube just ahead of the seatlug.
> However, this appears to be the only Saronni marking on the farme, which
> has a number of Colnago engravings and decals.
>
> Those who've been around CR a while know I'm not exactly a great fan of
> Colnago nor of any of the best known Italian marques. Not that they
> aren't good bikes, it's just that they all seem the same to me, following
> the Italian "formula" of the classic era. (Although I'll readily admit
> that French bikes of which I am a big fan, had their own "formula".) I
> tend to go for Italian bikes that are "different" in some way, Legnano,
> ALAN, Motta, Torpado. So this particular Colnago sort of fits my
> collection, definitely not typical of the marque. I think other Colnagos
> I would probably pick up at the right price would be Oval CX, Equilateral
> or Arabesque.
>
> So now I have a Colnago AND a Masi (an Alberto frame from Lou Deeter). I
> risk being drummed out of the Francophiles club.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, Texas, USA