Viewing 20 posts - 1 through 20 (of 20 total)
  • how do i find out what year my meta 55 is?
  • Pook
    Full Member

    I’m pretty sure it’s an 08 but need to know for definite. Need a new swingarm

    Three_Fish
    Free Member

    Send photo to Commençal distributors, with serial number.

    benjii19
    Free Member

    Ask it..

    Fresh Goods Friday 696: The Middling Edition

    Fresh Goods Friday 696: The Middlin...
    Latest Singletrack Videos
    Mister-P
    Free Member

    Stick a photo up here, some anorak will know.

    Pook
    Full Member

    Right o. Here we go… (It’s the black one)

    DrP
    Full Member

    Looks like a 2008.. Regardless.. You want a white VIP swingarm pook?

    Git one hanging up in the garage you can have for £30 posted..
    DrP

    DrP
    Full Member

    Actually, take a close up of the bolt on drop outs..

    DrP

    Pook
    Full Member

    It’s quick release

    Pook
    Full Member

    Does this help?

    I may be being a bit dense.

    rascal
    Free Member

    Pretty sure that’s not an 08 model.
    I’ve got an ’08 Meta 5.5.2 XT and Commencal is written on the swingarm with a very large 55 on the downtube….so effectively the other way round to yours.

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    09 onwards in the tech books also have the colour of the models
    http://www.commencal-store.co.uk/PBCPPlayer.asp?ID=1349650

    Serial numbers normally give you a year code in there best just mailing Commencal direct
    http://www.commencal-store.co.uk/PBSCCatalog.asp?ActionID=67174912&PBCATID=2017724
    not much choice in the swingarm department

    JohnnyPanic
    Full Member

    I’ve had an 08, an 09 & (still got) an 11.

    07’s & earlier had a different swingarm.
    10’s and onwards had a different style of dropouts.
    The gussets by the head tube on my 08 had no cut outs in them
    The gussets in my 09 had cut outs like yours has and the downtube gusset was beefier, like yours.
    Yours therefore looks like an 09 to me though I don’t remember that colourway.

    09’s were prone to cracking along the top of the weld where the top tube meets the seat tube. Keep an eye on it.

    But great bikes to ride. Put lots of smiles on my face.

    P.S. Don’t think there was any difference between the 08 & 09 swingarm apart from maybe the colours.

    DrP
    Full Member

    See, that looks like an ‘older’ (pre latest model) swing arm.
    Like mine…

    I emailed you back, BTW..

    DrP

    Pook
    Full Member

    DrP – pics in your inbox

    lemonysam
    Free Member

    I don’t remember that colour but otherwise it looks like my old ’09.

    jeff
    Full Member

    Thought it might have been this one…

    Madison Meta XT special Ed

    JohnnyPanic
    Full Member

    The XT was a 2008 special edition. Pretty sure Pook’s is a 2009.

    Mister-P
    Free Member

    Blimey, was that really 2008? I lusted after the Meta XT but never had one. Time flies.

    iain1775
    Free Member

    Definitely a 2009
    I’m 100% sure of that
    Graphics and the greyer coloured linkage (it had a stiffer interlocking central rod) give it away
    Think that colour was the frame only option, although if it’s as matt black as the pic makes it look maybe it’s been resprayed, 09 sticker kits where freely available and sold off cheap by places like Real Cycles who overstocked

    Madison did a Shimano special edition in 09 as well but it wasn’t as good value compared to the usual models as the 08 one (which for the spec compared to the 55.2 was a good deal) as I think prices for Shimano kit increased quite a bit around that time

    08 & 09 swing arms are identical anyway (and maybe also ’10 I forget)

    Rear swing arm, maybe try to find a carbon one cheap, they did have some on Commencal web store a while ago

    JohnnyPanic
    Full Member

    ’10 swingarms had different dropouts. Other than that they’re the same.

Viewing 20 posts - 1 through 20 (of 20 total)

The topic ‘how do i find out what year my meta 55 is?’ is closed to new replies.