Actually I thought it was manganese and not chrome moly. That being said, the first good bike I bought and could afford was a Peugeot PX-10. I'm riding the third version of this bike; the first 2 were stolen. It's 531 through out, but it has a tange cro-moly fork because the original fork had its threads stripped....anyway, bike books in the seventies praised Reynold 531 to the skies. The Peugeot has a lovely ride. The 753 of my Riv all-rounder is pretty sweet too. On Thursday, June 19, 2014 9:30:19 AM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote:
> 531 is the Reynolds brand name for their first grade of alloy steel > (Cr-Mo) high-strength tubing. It came in straight gauge and double butted > lengths of different thickness. > > On Thursday, June 19, 2014 9:23:34 AM UTC-5, Michael wrote: >> >> So 531 denotes the mixture of metals in it? >> It came in different configurations of butting and wall thicknesses? >> So people may be raving about the wall thickness, not so much about the >> 531-ness itself? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
