Reynolds tubing gallery

REYNOLDS

"The Patent Butted Tube Company Ltd" since 1898....
Updated 11.25.2009

A history
of the
Reynolds
Tube Co. HERE

An excellent web page showing much Reynolds literature and specifications HERE

The First Half Century

1914 Advertisement

1914 frame decal

Until the mid 1930s,
the top Reynolds stuff was
"High Manganese."

1938 ad in Cycling
showing frame & fork.

A decal as appearing on a 1953 bike.

Small sized straight gauge as seen on many Raleigh Lentons and Rudge Pathmakers...

The 1960s ~70s

The classic "full set" decal that marked the
best bicycles in the world in the 1960s & 70s.

The same tube set as to the left but with a subtle change of wording..
The story I heard was that Schwinn objected to the "Butted tubes, forks and
stays" because it implied that the forks and stays were butted, which they
are not. (They are "taper gauge") So they insisted on the above decal, which is more accurate.

Same era full set
but not double butted

Butted main frame but
not necessarily Reynolds
at all in the rest!

French, 3 tubes db, but not necessarily Reynolds stays nor forks.

Straight gauge 3 tubes....

Reynold's radical heated treated and thin gauge 753! article

Notice more printing along the bottom but still no reference to Tubing Investment Co., Reynolds owners...

Fork decals vary by size and art layout. They were not always used on many bikes. This one is French...

English version

Mid 1970s and forward...
It is not entirely clear when the Tubing Investments subscript started to
be used in the decals, but it was approximately early to mid 1970s.

Short-lived tube designation.. That of the Reynolds 531 SL, a lighter gauge version of the venerable tube set.

Fuzzy image of the English language version...

Check these
decals out!
Can you figure
these out?

The New Stuff
These versions of Reynolds are principally from the late 1990s & up till the present.

A light gauge set in the classic alloy..	This set is ridged internally as well a s being butted..	A tube category introduced to appeal to the tig welders
Next step up in quality over the 525 and with the same intended market.	New for the once top-of-the-line set.	The current premier set featuring heat strengthened alloy.. There is also (not pictured) a "8 tubes 853" decal used by Bob Jackson and ?