For Sale George Longstaff Audax REDUCED £1500 now open to offers!

[TreaderSteve]

Steel is an alloy!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

 

[Dave_Mars]

To add to the confusion, Columbus made Zona tubing (steel) and Zonal tubing (aluminium)

This is evidently a beautifully made steel frame by one of the most respected British builders, but the interest in rim-brake bikes has fallen off a cliff. £500-600 would be a good price for the spec

 

[SNight]

ZONA

Asymmetric reinforced tubes for top of the range, custom, competitive road and MTB frames.

Material:

• 25CrMo4 25CrMo4 seamless steel: the chemical composition of this steel, specifying a higher percentage of Chromium, gives to the material good resistance properties to overheating. The formation of carbides prevents the grain enlargement:
  the steel maintains its properties during brazing and welding, even in the malleable raw state it features excellent mechanical characteristics.
• Mechanical characteristics: UTS=800MPa, Ys=760MPa, Ap5 =12%
  Suggested filler material for TIG welding: OK TIGROD 13.12 (AWS 5.28 ER 80S-G)
  Suggested material for brazing: Castoline Silver Alloy 38230
  Columbus 25CrMo4 is utilized for the production of the Zona, 29r and FAT tubesets.

Apologies but columbus decal does say zona alloy

 

[SNight]

To add to the confusion, Columbus made Zona tubing (steel) and Zonal tubing (aluminium)

This is evidently a beautifully made steel frame by one of the most respected British builders, but the interest in rim-brake bikes has fallen off a cliff. £500-600 would be a good price for the spec

Agreed. Starting to realise regarding the price. Cost considerably more to build than £500-£600 but I take your point. I wouldn’t let it go for that amount, id rather keep it than let it go at that price. Could be a brilliant bike for someone when you consider what they would have to spend to get a frame of this quality alone!

 

[squirrelchaser]

Alloy as in mix of metals rather than alloy as in aluminium .

 

[Dave_Mars]

I have a very similar frame - A fillet brazed Audax in Zona .. exquisitely built by an excellent British builder. I have no time to ride it but I'm loathe to sell it for peanuts.

When I worked in a bike shop in my youth, plenty of roadies would drone on about how disc brakes would never work on a road bike, too little contact patch, blah blah. How that tide turned

This generation of builders honed their craft sometimes for decades before putting their own name on a frame. These days, plenty of upstarts with a brazing torch and good instagram skillz can be asking £3000 for probably the 10th frame they’ve ever made.

Ok Rant over

 

[TimeTrialAce]

Any interest?

What about £800 ?