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Yes the popular vitus and alan aluminium frames of the late 80's to mid 90's had aluminium tubes glued to aluminium lugs. Also many early carbon frames of that era from TVT, Alan, Vitus, Trek, Giant or Specialized) were built the same way with carbon tubes and aluminium lugs. In the early 2000's there were also some frames with an alu front triangle and a carbon rear triangle bonded together. Usually they were mid tier bikes below full carbon ones.

This is still a popular method for frames built with mixed materials.




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