COLUMBUS
Frame tubing
A gallery of frame decals
 Updated 10.21.2004

foil.jpg (12509 bytes)
Very early foil type "sticker"
 (Sorry, not a great scan!)		 SLdecal1.jpg (40736 bytes)
The next version that was typical into the late 1960s and very early 1970s...		 SL_Decal.gif (11703 bytes)
This decal was prevalent
in the 1980s..
Repaintdecal.jpg (59915 bytes)
The replacement decal
for repainted frames.. 		SLXdecal.jpg (68391 bytes)
The next big change..
"rifled" main tubes similar to the reinforcement in the famous Columbus fork steerers... 		MSdecal.jpg (82069 bytes)
The "Multi-Shape" tube set
in which every frame tube was of a different shape!
metaxdecal.jpg (108332 bytes)
The now discontinued
Stainless Steel "METAX"
Chart of tubing
models & weights,
circa mid 1980s
(click for pdf file)		 col_bb_Al.gif (10124 bytes)
Hardly "Classic,"
but bizarrely interesting!
The radical new Aluminum
bottom bracket shell.
Tubing chart,
circa 1989		 Back to Classic
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