the word tange see tange disambiguation . tange international co. is a major japanese manufacturer of high quality steel tubing 1 for bicycle frames established before 1920 . 2 they are a rival to the british based tubing manufacturer reynolds . where the de facto standard of bicycle tubing from european bike boom bikes is reynolds steel the japanese de facto standard is tange . they were also found throughout the 1980s on many higher quality far eastern produced bikes because of the higher cost of reynolds steel . they still produce high quality frame tubing to compete with companies like reynolds and columbus ; however they only produce chromoly steel nowadays instead of mangaloy steel . their current tubing range consists of three tiers tange chromo infinity prestige and ultimate . soma have been using tange prestige tubes since 2007 and the first non italian tube to be used by pinarello was tange prestige . 3 the british bicycle manufacturer charge also uses a variety of tange tubing for their steel frames . references edit sheldon brown s bicycle glossary ta to . www.sheldonbrown.com . retrieved 2012 03 15 . about tange . tange . 2009 . retrieved 2012 03 15 . tange prestige frames . soma fabrications . 2012 . retrieved 2012 03 15 . external links edit official website v t e japanese bicycle manufacturers current bridgestone kuwahara miyata nagasawa fuji nishiki sugino yamaha defunct lotus panasonic suntour components bridgestone cateye shimano sugino suntour tange international co. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tange international co. & oldid 707678582 categories cycle parts manufacturerscycle manufacturers of japan1920 establishments in japancompanies based in osaka prefecture navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 1 march 2016 at 04 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view