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Lugged steel frame construction is a method of building bicycle frames using steel tubing mated with socket-like sleeves, called lugs. For most of the bicycle's history, steel has been the primary material for bicycle frames, with lugged construction the primary assembling method. Steel continues in use by builders of high-quality steel frames ...
Reynolds 531 "was the standard of excellence for many decades" among bicycle frame-building materials. [1] And because of the availability of a wide range of butting, diameters and thicknesses of tubes, along with different stays and fork blades, it became the tubing of choice for most frame builders. [2]
A bicycle frame is the main component of a bicycle, onto which wheels and other components are fitted. The modern and most common frame design for an upright bicycle is based on the safety bicycle, and consists of two triangles: a main triangle and a paired rear triangle. This is known as the diamond frame. [ 1 ]
Dave Moulton. Edward David Moulton (born 8 February 1936 in Surrey, England) is a retired custom bicycle frame builder. Dave Moulton studied at Luton Technical College in England and learned bicycle frame building from Albert "Pop" Hodge in Luton, beginning in 1957. He opened a frame-building business around 1975 in Worcester, England.
A lugged steel bicycle has a frame made of steel. A plastic bicycle was an attempt in the early 1980s to introduce a bicycle made entirely out of plastic materials instead of metal. A wooden bicycle has a frame made out of wood. One example is the Chukudu used in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ron Cooper (1932 – 12 December 2012) [1] was a noted [2] British "master" bicycle frame builder. Cooper began building frames when he was 15, [3] starting in 1947 [4] when he began a full apprenticeship at A.S. Gillott Cycles, London, England. [5] He learned his craft from frame builders in England, most notably Jim Collier and Bill Philbrook ...
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