the chart does not show that Aelle was also offered as a variation called "Aelle R" and it was a notch above regular Aelle. If you have it, you can't miss the big red letter "R" on the Columbus decal. My understanding is that it's a *butted* version of the regular chrome-manganese Aelle tubeset (which is straight-guage)...if so, perhaps it's the closet thing that Columbus has to...531...