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Old 05-06-13 | 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by servicimo
I did here once that Razesa built some of the high end Zeus frames, maybe some one can confirm?
I found this from another post.
Razesa is a small company from the north of Spain, from Navarra. Navarra is near Pais Vasco, also in Spain, with a great tradition in cycling and steel making. From Pais Vasco are also the brands BH, Orbea y Zeus. BH is the most important, everybody here had a BH when we were kids Now Orbea is as important as BH. Zeus made bicycles and components, but its now closed.

In the 80īs with the great demand of road bikes, all brands colaborated, because they sell more bikes than they can make. So Zeus made components that were used by BH and Razesa, Razesa made frames for Zeus and i think also for BH because my Razesa is exactly as some BH i see.

In the 90īs with the mountain bike explosion, these brands were specialized in road bikes, so, it were bad times. BH and Orbea began to make mountain bikes and continue production, but Zeus and Razesa were in trouble. Zeus close and Razesa was almost in bankrupt. The owners sell the company to the workers and they continue making steel frames for track, and distribute carbon frames ( i think they imported them ) they also made taylor made steel frames.
Your bike certainly looks to be early 80's, similar to the Cronos, but 531 tubes, not Columbus SL. http://www.equusbicycle.com/bike/zeu...20-%200011.pdf
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