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Wait, they were carbon? A Trek 8something?
I'd wager it's a Trek 8700 from mid-late 90s
No chance! Weren't they all carbon anyway?
Trek never did any lugged metal frames AFAIK.
Maybe it is a custom frame - note no bottle cage bosses. Surely all 90's standard MTB's came with bottle cage mounts?
^ You need to zoom in a bit 🙂
^ You need to zoom in a bit
Ah yeah - further rules out a Raleigh then, as they all seem to be on the seat tube...
It has one on the [i]back [/i]of the seat tube... see op's second post!
The one on the back of the seat post was when they tried some awful front mech cable routing. Along the TT down to a cam wheel fixed there and then back up to the front mech. Can't recall many people doing it which could narrow it down a bit.
Yep. Looks like a Raleigh of some sort. Probably isn't.
My money's on some sort of weird home-brew frankenbike frame. Perhaps somebody actually tried (and succeeded in) bonding aluminium tubes to (what was once) a fairly ordinary steel frame?
Or it's simply a Taiwanese oddity. Not to put too fine a point in it, but the build quality in some of those close ups appears to leave a little to be desired.
Why would anyone with knowledge of metals knowingly design something with steel and ali held together?
Looks like a fun hack bike though, OP!
Carrera Mission
Seem to be lots of subtle differences to mine.
Univega
Got a model I can google? Initial searches aren't bringing up anything obviously similar.
Mainly seems we are back to "It's a Raleigh" and "it can't be a Raleigh" though 🙂
Retrobike thread here if you are interested; http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=357010
Has it got any spoons involved...
I think it's far newer than 1992/93 as suggested on Retro bike. 1.125" headset suggests 1995-96 to me.
IME, Raleigh Dyna Tech lugs were cast, whereas the ones in the pics are welded. I know that Raliegh did do some cheaper frames that used similar technology (Duotec?), and there's their USA stuff that never got sold in the UK, but I still don't think it's a Raleigh.
Trouble is, the bike pictured actually does ring a distant bell, but I can't remember where/when it was I saw it.
I'm 99% certain I have seen one before though. It's bugging me now! 😡
My old Raleigh Mirage was a 1990-1991 (the purple one) - that had a Tioga Avenger 1.125" threaded headset, so the size was about pre-95. Could be retro-fitted threadless headset.
Its Probably some early On One prototype, is the seatpost a good fit as that would be a dead giveaway 😉
Where is the frame number stamped?
And can you take a photo of it and post it?
Some manufacturers put theirs in special places, or they appeared on certain parts of the BB.
Could be retro-fitted threadless headset.
Aye, true.
I think its a early merlin special with a build kit i can remember the adds for these and the carbon version's in the old mags...might be merlin or some other company my mate had the carbon alu frame.
[b] paging pyschobiker [/b]
Over on the facebook thread someone posted a pic of a Claude Butler that looks very similar (though still different, the scallop at the top of the seat tube on mine, and the rear canti hanger arrangement). It's the closest hit so far anyway. A bit of reverse Google image searching actually shows the image posted on facebook (not by the owner), originated from a old thread on here!
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/when-did-you-get-your-first-mtb/page/3#post-3786326
So, psychobiker are you out there and do you have any other info other that it's a Claude Butler?
Here's the image;
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