Has Tange been in business all this time?

[eddief]

I see that Soma Fab is switching from Reynolds 631 to Tange Prestige. Has Tange been in bus all this time or did these tubes go away and now are being reborn?

http://www.tange-design.com/tange_2005/tubes.htm

Soma Fab says they feel a lot like 725. Just wondering?

Tangoing with Tange Prestige:
For 2006, we will begin switching to Tange Prestige CrMo. Tange Prestige does not have the thermophilic properties of Reynolds 631, but overall its tubes are stronger – thanks to Tange's heat-treatment process. Old farts need no explaination of how nice Tange Prestige is; for the youngins' let say it is in the same league as Reynolds 725. In all respects, this is an upgrade, but we will be keeping the price almost the same as 2004 and 2005, because we all know how you feel about a good deal.

[David Kirk]

Long, Long time.

Dave

[BarryG]

Long, Long time.
since 1920

[medici]

Long, Long time.

Dave

And very nice tubing. I have a Davidson and a Medici of Prestige
from the late 80's (see: Old Farts above). Very lively steel.
Probably thinner and lighter by now.

[Brian Smith]

And very nice tubing. I have a Davidson and a Medici of Prestige
from the late 80's (see: Old Farts above). Very lively steel.
Probably thinner and lighter by now.

Tange had tubes (intentionally) as thin as 0.4mm in the early 90s.
That's still thin these days.
Their U.S. office closed in the mid-90s, and their new(ish) website looks,
uh, well, cheap. The Prestige label is now applied to a lot of things from them
it seems.
It's probably still bang-up stuff, with just no focus on marketing to us, the people who don't buy their stuff directly.

[Samster]

I have a Tange headset on one of my bikes... But I'm not sure if it's the same company. The website above makes no mention of headsets... I didn't know that Tange (the tube maker) was affiliated w/ Storck.

-sam