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Old 12-03-08, 01:44 PM
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Nice!

Per what I have read a French company also did an aluminum bike in that era. Lots of experiments going on then.

Unfortunately modern aluminum alloys were unknown at the time and the frames fatigued pretty fast apparently. Note that the tube diameters are about the same as steel frames of the era.
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