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@georges1 - "pilorget sandvik titanium custom made road bike of the same level of quality and finish than a Passoni "
Not wanting to start a bun fight, but I doubt that, and it's not totally clear. Not seeing any pictures nor having a timeline I need to comment. Sandvik (if we are talking the same) from my knowledge were not at all in the same playing field like Passoni, business wise, technically and aesthetically.
First up, one thing to get clear. Sandvik stopped producing bikes in 1997. It went over to TST after, essentially a rationalisation of core business.
I could well imagine a Dean or a Mongoose road bike (or even a few one off Kona) custom road bikes, but no. Not a French bike at Sandvik unless something very very extraordinary with a pay check to follow. I am open to stand corrected but without evidence I'm sorry this does not fly with me at all. Even Colnago didn't have the skills and that went to the Russian federation. The Passoni is much more modelled in what the UK was doing in the mid 70s with flowing structure and hand sanded.
Sandvik, to understand better you can see it here. Below pulled from their web site years ago. Their business is tubes, and gluing them together how they knew was their inhouse expertise and it eventually went for bike builders to fend for themselves later.
A French bike with some USA Sandvik tubes I could imagine in a wild dream, but it makes little to no sense either. Sourcing from Reynolds or Columbus would be more natural.
A Sandvik built frame will most certainly say so, and a TST built frame with Sandvik tubes from up the road will also say so under the bottom bracket. Absolutely no question about that empirically speaking.
@georges1 - "pilorget sandvik titanium custom made road bike of the same level of quality and finish than a Passoni "
Not wanting to start a bun fight, but I doubt that, and it's not totally clear. Not seeing any pictures nor having a timeline I need to comment. Sandvik (if we are talking the same) from my knowledge were not at all in the same playing field like Passoni, business wise, technically and aesthetically.
First up, one thing to get clear. Sandvik stopped producing bikes in 1997. It went over to TST after, essentially a rationalisation of core business.
I could well imagine a Dean or a Mongoose road bike (or even a few one off Kona) custom road bikes, but no. Not a French bike at Sandvik unless something very very extraordinary with a pay check to follow. I am open to stand corrected but without evidence I'm sorry this does not fly with me at all. Even Colnago didn't have the skills and that went to the Russian federation. The Passoni is much more modelled in what the UK was doing in the mid 70s with flowing structure and hand sanded.
Sandvik, to understand better you can see it here. Below pulled from their web site years ago. Their business is tubes, and gluing them together how they knew was their inhouse expertise and it eventually went for bike builders to fend for themselves later.
A French bike with some USA Sandvik tubes I could imagine in a wild dream, but it makes little to no sense either. Sourcing from Reynolds or Columbus would be more natural.
A Sandvik built frame will most certainly say so, and a TST built frame with Sandvik tubes from up the road will also say so under the bottom bracket. Absolutely no question about that empirically speaking.
