Terry Dolan owned Cougar. This bike is aluminum so probably outsourced to Italians at the time. Still nice but a steel Dolan Cougar would be top end. Easier to help with frames if you take pictures of the seat cluster, head tube, and bottom bracket, drop outs
Kooky-Air339 on
The aluminum ones I believe were made in England not Italy, and designed by Cougar iirc they were bought out by a company called Van Tuyl.
The particular bike pictured to us here however is either a Reynolds 531os, or Columbus os, but the way to check this out is simply to get a magnet and see if it sticks to the frame, if not then it’s Aluminum. A picture that isn’t very detailed is difficult to tell sometimes. But it appears to me the bike is using steel dropouts that are welded to the stays.
But, I could be wrong, so get a magnet, and resolve it.
pandemicblues on
I don’t know much about cougars, but I hear they prefer younger riders.
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Terry Dolan owned Cougar. This bike is aluminum so probably outsourced to Italians at the time. Still nice but a steel Dolan Cougar would be top end. Easier to help with frames if you take pictures of the seat cluster, head tube, and bottom bracket, drop outs
The aluminum ones I believe were made in England not Italy, and designed by Cougar iirc they were bought out by a company called Van Tuyl.
The particular bike pictured to us here however is either a Reynolds 531os, or Columbus os, but the way to check this out is simply to get a magnet and see if it sticks to the frame, if not then it’s Aluminum. A picture that isn’t very detailed is difficult to tell sometimes. But it appears to me the bike is using steel dropouts that are welded to the stays.
But, I could be wrong, so get a magnet, and resolve it.
I don’t know much about cougars, but I hear they prefer younger riders.