Bikes dragged out of a damp shed and described as 'genuine barn find'.
"Oh really? Under a dust sheet next to the '54 D-Type was it?"
Pull the other one.
As for features, any frame with an unfeasibly high top tube.
I know early MTBs had a lot of 'road bike DNA' but that's no excuse to make a...
I think the dropout may have been made by Hope which is why the anodising is a different shade.
I've got one knocking around in the spares box from when I ran Hope C2s on my F5.
It takes the No.1 caliper (err, I think!).
It's whichever caliper has the mounting hole to the right of the piston...
Seller reckons it's a 1" head tube which rules out F6 and later.
Round seat tube with round seat clamp rules out F3 and earlier.
Normally the frame number would include the F number but that one looks a bit 'non-standard'.
Yeah, Tootyred makes a good point.
I'd stick with acrylic lacquer or anything that doesn't contain isocyanates.
'2K in a can' is cheap and easy but there's no filter on the market that will stop isocyanates.
If you want to do it safely you need an air-fed hood which sort of defeats the point...
The bike shop under the arches was Cykik. I got my Gary Fisher Montare from there in summer '92.
The guys who ran it were really helpful and I'd frequently drop in for a natter and to see what was new in the cabinet of exotica.
The Mert Lawwill-designed RS1 eventually morphed into the Yeti DH6...
1992 pre-dates the P7 so might be a Prestige maybe?
It's got the triangular hole in the rear canti stop which I think only Prestiges had.
Might have gone back for a respray after Orange had ran out of Prestige decals.