Hope I didn't get ripped off! '84 ALAN Record frame...
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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.
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.
fyrtom
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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.