FrothNinja
Veteran
Anyone know what tubing Dawes used on the Discovery in the 1980s?
Thanks
Thanks
1980s Dawes Discovery tubing query
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400ixl
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Looking at the 1986 catalogue it was the Dawes own tubing they called the "Supertube" rather than the likes of Reynolds tubing of the time.
Catalogue is at https://dawescycles.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/1984-dawes-cat-vcc-library.pdf
Catalogue is at https://dawescycles.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/1984-dawes-cat-vcc-library.pdf
Cycleops
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I think it was aluminium wasn't it?
400ixl
Active Member
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- Norwich, Norfolk
Dawes Supertube is a chromoly/ Reynolds 500 equivalent, although Reynolds 500 itself was the next range up in tubing Dawes used.
SkipdiverJohn
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Who knows, it could have even have been unbranded Reynolds without the frame stickers being applied?. The big cost increment in bicycle frames is not between gas pipe and cro-moly, but between plain gauge tubing and butted tubing - because of the amount of butting reworking involved of the raw tubes that start out as plain gauge.
All manufacturers like to maintain a clear price and quality hierarchy both in frames and mechanical bits. The thinking is small incremental spec differences help them upsell a bike to a customer that is one notch higher up the ladder than the customer originally intended to buy.
All manufacturers like to maintain a clear price and quality hierarchy both in frames and mechanical bits. The thinking is small incremental spec differences help them upsell a bike to a customer that is one notch higher up the ladder than the customer originally intended to buy.
