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Old 02-08-06, 07:47 AM
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Hi, just bought an '84 ALAN Record Aluminum frame. Top tube is flattened along center, horizontally. Well, Seller says that the tube is "ovalized". Anybody have a 50cm ALAN Record frame circa. '84 with an "ovalized" top tube? Just want to justify claim, till I have a chance to build it up and check it out. Thanks mils., Tom. On another thought, I'm afraid that maybe a bike stand vise might of flattened it out. Yikes!

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Alu Alans had a rep for being a bit whippy . . . that's befgore alu was heat treated like C'dale.
Ovalized tubes then were strictly on steel (not alu) tandem boob tubes and Phil Wood did some ovalizing of steel tubes.
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Hi! Zonatandem. Check this out from this morning! Thanks for the jump-in.

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Registered: Dec 2004 Heck! Say no more! I found a picture of this mystery of the flattened top tube. On the Classic Rendezvous website, https://www.classicrendezvous.com/It.../Alan_cyclX.htm shows a cyclocross version of my frame. I guess it is conceivable that they used a flattened top tube for their cyclocross frame (for purposes of carrying the bike in a cyclo-race over the shoulder for stability?), but on a road frame? Hmmm. How much drag would one expect to reduce in that area? Thank you one and thank you all.
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