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Falcon Tioga Mini

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That Swan Guy:
Spoke to Jonty Maw last week (he's the dude on the left on the team photo) and he said he has 3 NOS Tange mini frames in his garage. They never made frames specifically for the team they were off the shelf Tange frames.

monkian:
Nick work Nick :daumenhoch:

I suspect they were made for Tioga who then supplied them to Falcon. I haven't seen one yet that's cropped up for another brand like a other Tange frames so it might be safer to say they were an off the shelf Tioga product rather than Tange but I hear what you're saying. It's not like they were custom built for the Falcon team ;)

The diamond stamp does seem to be unique to these Mini frames though (seen on both versions, with and without the small head-tube gusset). Still no idea what that was all about ???

I'd love to see Jonty's memorabilia from BITD. Would make a great thread :coolsmiley:

That Swan Guy:

--- Quote from: monkian on June 04, 2014, 10:47 AM ---Nick work Nick :daumenhoch:

I suspect they were made for Tioga who then supplied them to Falcon. I haven't seen one yet that's cropped up for another brand like a other Tange frames so it might be safer to say they were an off the shelf Tioga product rather than Tange but I hear what you're saying. It's not like they were custom built for the Falcon team ;)

The diamond stamp does seem to be unique to these Mini frames though (seen on both versions, with and without the small head-tube gusset). Still no idea what that was all about ???

I'd love to see Jonty's memorabilia from BITD. Would make a great thread :coolsmiley:

--- End quote ---

He's quite coy about it all really and is a complete techno-phobe!

I'll see what I can do :daumenhoch:

That Swan Guy:
This is one of the frame sets he made up for his daughter.



Here are the bottom bracket markings

Twesnik:
Ah,no gusset,on that Swanny!
 8)
Yep,diamond stamp.....

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