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10-14-20 | 02:22 PM

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GMS

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Originally Posted by Trakhak

You may be thinking of the bonded Alan and Vitus frames falling apart. I sold those Technium bonded bikes in a bike shop throughout the period that Raleigh USA was marketing them, and we never saw any failures. After all, Raleigh USA did establish the Technium factory in Kent, WA, expressly to make it easy to hire Boeing engineers with aerospace design experience.

Not saying that it never happened, but while I've read vague off-hand mentions of Technium frames falling apart over the years, I haven't seen any photos or read any first-hand testimonials of such failures.

Sorry for the digression, all.

I saw several Techinum 753 frames that the rings around the joints were broken. Only bought mine after making sure it did not have any broken. Maybe the ones on ebay are the broken ones and the good ones are still out there.

The fork does look like a match.

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