Tange International Co. is a major Japanese manufacturer of high-quality steel tubing
for
bicycle frames, established before 1920.
They are a rival to the British-based tubing manufacturer
Reynolds Reynolds may refer to:
Places Australia
*Hundred of Reynolds, a cadastral unit in South Australia
*Hundred of Reynolds (Northern Territory), a cadastral unit in the Northern Territory of Australia
United States
* Reynolds, Mendocino County, Calif ...
. Where the de facto standard of bicycle tubing from European
bike boom bikes is Reynolds steel, the Japanese de facto standard is Tange. They were also found throughout the 1980s on many higher-quality far eastern-produced bikes because of the higher cost of Reynolds steel.
They still produce high-quality frame tubing to compete with companies like Reynolds and
Columbus
Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "''Colombo''". It most commonly refers to:
* Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), the Italian explorer
* Columbus, Ohio, capital of the U.S. state of Ohio
Columbus may also refer to:
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; however, they only produce
chromoly
41xx steel is a family of SAE steel grades, as specified by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Alloying elements include chromium and molybdenum, and as a result these materials are often informally referred to as chromoly steel (common va ...
steel nowadays instead of mangaloy steel. Their current tubing range consists of four tiers: Tange Chromo, Infinity, Prestige and Ultimate.
Soma have been using Tange Prestige tubes since 2007, and the first non-Italian tube to be used by
Pinarello
Cicli Pinarello S.p.A. is an Italian bicycle manufacturer based in Treviso, Italy. Founded in 1953, it supplies mostly handmade bicycles for the road, track, E-bikes(NYTRO), mountain bikes and cyclo-cross. The company also produces bicycles u ...
was Tange Prestige.
The British bicycle manufacturer Charge also uses a variety of Tange tubing for their steel frames.
References
External links
Official website
{{Japanese bicycle manufacturers
Cycle parts manufacturers
Cycle manufacturers of Japan
1920 establishments in Japan
Companies based in Osaka Prefecture