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seamless steel tubing set. whole bike industry of the new Columbus seamless, made starting from a solid billet, countless times, to obtain the fi nal required thickness. characteristics are uniform and constant in the whole. this new alloy, the grain structure is not altered. the joint areas. Ys=1000MPa, Ap5: >10%.
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With his tubing well-proven in the bicycle industry, Angelo Luigi saw strength in creativity and diversity and was soon supplying material for the tubular frames of seaplanes and road vehicles, as well as for furniture and ski-poles.
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The story of the most famous steel tubes in the history of cycling began in 1919 when Angelo Luigi Colombo founded his steelery with the ambition to “to do business in iron and steel and make a fair and honest profit,”.
Columbus exhibited at the VI Triennale in Milan, Angelo Luigi obtained exclusivity of supply to EMBRU for the production of Marcel Breuer’s iconic furniture designs.
COLUMBUS. The story of the most famous steel tubes in the history of cycling began in 1919 when Angelo Luigi Colombo founded his steel mill with the ambition to “to do busi ness in iron and steel and make a fair and honest profit". In the 1930s Colombo created the name Columbus for cycling specific tubes: producing the first reinforced tubes ...
The history of Columbus goes back to 1919 when Angelo Luigi Colombo (or A.L.) first set up a shop to produce steel tubing. In the 1920s Colombo's tubing was used for aircraft applications, and also, according to their own history page, frames for motorcycles.
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Columbus steel tubing has long been the preferred steel tubeset for Italian framemakers. There have been quite a number of improvements and innovations through the years resulting in a large number of different tubesets. The framebuilder typically applies a Columbus frame decal to indicate the tubeset he used.
