President and founder Yasujiro Tange retires. Sakai City.ġ958 - Tange receives JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) certification as a fork producer.ġ961 - Production of tubing products for non-bicycle use begins.ġ963 - Production facilities move to Otori Higashi-Machi, Sakai City.ġ965 - Innovative manufacturing processes introduced to fork production for the first time.ġ967 - Head office moves to Otori Higashi-Machi, Sakai City.
formed as an affiliated company.ġ951 - Manufacture and sales of bicycle-specific butted tubing begins.ġ957 - Company is renamed Tange Industries Ltd., and moves to expanded facilites in Nanjo-Cho. Yasujiro aims to show the way for modern CrMo bikes, a perfect combinaison of tradition and modernity for cyclists who want to (re) discover the unique taste of rinding steel.ġ920 - Yasujiro Tange forms the Tange Manufacturing Co., to produce bicycle forks.ġ950 - Facilities move to Hokujo-Cho, Sakai City. Today, CrMo is coming back and the new generation of Tange people decided to pay tribute to the man who wrote history by creating their own bike brand called Yasujiro. During the golden ages of CrMo bikes,for road racing,and moreover BMX and MTB, Tange was considered as the best tubing maker by the biggest bikes brands, as well as be spoke frame builders. It quickly became synonymous of high japanese quality. Tange first produced forks and CrMo frame tubes. He gave this conpany his family name, and made it famous all over the world. Today, we continue to build on more than 90 years in the bicycle industry, offering a range of components and frame parts in addition to tubing and forks, all made to our famous, exacting standards.Īlmost one century ago,in 1920,Yasujiro Tange founded a company that would become one the most iconic in bicycle industry. Tange pioneered methods for butting and heat treating chromium-molybdenum alloy steel bicycle tubing, manufacturing tubes that are still considered by many frame builders to be the zenith of strength, precision and workability. Starting with fork production in 1920, Tange has applied experience and engineering to improve bicycle technology and performance. Tange is one of the oldest and most distinguished names in the bicycle industry.
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