Raleigh, starting in the middle 1980s, designed and built cold-process "Technium" aluminum frames with steel lugs at Kent ( Seattle) Washington. These rocked!

The Technium process yeilded a low-labor-input frame that was light, good-looking and dependable which could be competitively assembled in the USA to compete with imported products at a fair price

Here's one:

Of course Raleigh management killed the project. But they were nice!

The other not-so-nice one

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