I’m looking to build up a hack bike for my wife and this popped up in my eBay search. Looks to have square-ish chainstays and reasonably identifiable dropout area and gussets at the top/down/head tube junctions. Any ideas?

Boardman of some vintage?

I see where you are coming from, the dropouts look right but all the Boardman frames that google images are showing me look a lot more hydroforned around the head tube area.

Anyone else want to play?

It’s pretty distinctive. Someone will know, I don’t though sorry

Oh I reckon it might be a carrera something.

A wanted ad here will usually turn up something

Carrera was my first hunch. The square chainstay and drop out area look spot on but i can’t see a Carrera that doesn’t either have a gusset at the top tube / seat tube junction or look a lot chunkier at the head tube end of the down tube.

Definitely reminiscent of a Carrera, had a Kraken and a Vengeance with that exact dropout design. The square chainstay was standard round then too (’06-08ish). The headtubes are usually flared though, not straight. Could be a Merida as they made their frames around then.

Cheeky Sunday morning bump.

Have you asked the seller on the off chance that they know? Is there any way of working out the manufacturer/model from the frame number?

I haven’t asked the seller but he apologises in the description for not knowing what make/model it is.

Gonna give this a cheeky bump as this is still for sale locally and my search for a suitable hack bike for my wife is not coming up with anything.

Anyone know what this frame is?