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@sausagefingers
Thank aircraft technology for reynolds awesomeness:
"531 came about unintentionally. It was Chief Inspector and Metallurgist Max Bigford who spotted an aircraft tubing which he thought held the potential for making an excellent cycle tubeset and reworked the specifications along with Director Austyn Reynolds."
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/reynolds/Reynolds_history.htm