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  • This isn't a Heckler, is it? If not… what is it (apart from weird looking!)??
  • psychle
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    epicsteve
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    It's certainly not a Heckler, but it'd definitely ugly enough for your collection!

    psychle
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    I don't want it! just curious as to what it is…

    pastcaring
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    no! nor should it have that fork on it!

    4ndyB
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    I think it might be a Proflex, not a SC of any description that I know of.

    Way overkill on the forks too, how high is that BB!?!

    speaker2animals
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    Oh how I laughed! That is one of those cheap and nasty auto shop/sunday market jobies that cost about £60. That won't have been assembled from nicked parts at all. (Allegedly)!

    1nten5e
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    That is, most definitely, a Proflex 857….should really have the old Girvin forks

    Elfinsafety
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    I think it might be a Proflex

    That's what I was thinking…

    speaker2animals
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    I really do think it is one of the cheapo frames. The swing arm doesn't seem to have the construction of those on Proflex bikes.

    Elfinsafety
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    I don't think it's a real cheapo frame. Possibly a ProFlex copy, but it looks a little too well made for a cheapo. Slightly different design of swingarm.

    Dark-Side
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    It is a ProFlex, just not a 957. I think it is a 955 with alu swing arm.

    Elfinsafety
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    Ah ha! 757?

    knottinbotswana
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    In my game of spot-the-difference: the white imposter has a shorter (!) seat-tube and the pivot point is in a different position to the genuine Pro-Flexes.

    Elfinsafety
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    No, the pivot is the same as the 757, and I think the seat tube's been chopped down to accommodate the shorter spring shock and the angle produced by the silly forks. It's a bodge-job. It might work very well for it's owner, mind.

    If it's not a Pro Flex, it's a copy.

    Either way, it's just wrong!

    thisisnotaspoon
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    Definately a profelx,

    I used to have a 857 with the carbon swingarm, those things weighed f-all and went like a scalded rat up a drainpipe, the only thing I've ridden that feels close was a yeti ASR-sl

    TheFunkyMonkey
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    I had an 856 once, it's definately not one of those. They had an elastomer shock and a much beefier swingarm

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