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Old 03-05-13 | 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by frantik
The Ironman bikes were made with Tange #1, which was renamed from Tange Champion. Unless Tange Infinity has changed, Champion was above infinity and below prestige.
Not exactly. Champion was Tange's family name for their seamless CrMo tubesets, of which their were six different grades (thickness and butting combinations). Tange (Champion) #1 was the 2nd highest of the six Champion tubesets. Prestige was a heat treated version of the top Champion tubeset. Infinity also used the same alloy but was seamed to make production more economical.

To put things into a Reynolds perspective for the OP, Prestige is roughly equivalent to Reynolds 753.

Why would somebody put an Infinity fork on a Prestige frame? Putting a relatively heavy, seamed fork on a very light frame is strange, to say the least.
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