Thread: When was chrome moly first used in frames?
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Old 02-12-17 | 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnDThompson
IIRC, Columbus started out making chrome-moly tubing in the 1920s for the aircraft industry and only later branched out to provide bicycle frame tubing.
I thought all the early high end steel sets grew out of technology used from the aircraft industry but I could be wrong on this.
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