Columbus 'SLX New'

MartinB123

Senior Retro Guru
Hi all,

I've recently purchased a Cougar road frame with Columbus SLX New tubing. Never came across this tubing before. Does anyone have info on the tubing type as i've only really come across Columbus SLX. A quick google search leads me to a lot of Cougar frames with this particular tubing. Looking to strip my lopro of its Chorus 9 speed group and transfer across to this.

 
Off the top of my head I think it was a revival of the old SLX tubing possibly late 90s? Current SL is quite a bit lighter than the original but i don't know if SLX New was any lighter than the original.

Nice frame by the way - a friend of mine has a Cougar from the early 80s in a fetching shade that we called Metallic Raspberry. It's a really nicely built frame and still going strong.

Mark.
 
Re:

Mid nineties rebranding of the SLX tubeset, rebranding and not a remodelling. So no real change from memory.
My Merckx Corsa Extra is in SLX NEW. Great tubeset.

Jamie
 
Thanks all, looking forward to giving the frame a clean up and getting the components cleaned up to fit to her!
 
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