Prototype Litespeed

[Chr1st0phe]

Wow!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... ink:top:en

 

[mfh126]

Not a prototype, but I did think the same when I saw it yesterday. It's from the 1997 catalog year: http://mombat.org/MOMBAT/BikeHistoryPag ... d-1997.pdf

 

[Chr1st0phe]

This is the prototype of this one because the tubes are not the same

 

[Radoslaw]

That's the ugliest head tube I've ever seen.

 

[knobby]

Looks like it would be impossible to insert a safe amount of seatpost too.

 

[13]

Yea and as a 6 inch travel URT............. looks like it would be an expensive and ugly paperweight.
These things got canned by the press bitd too, URT,s were done and dusted by 95 and lightspeed still produced a dh version in 97.

 

[klaw71]

URT,s were done and dusted by 95 and lightspeed still produced a dh version in 97.

Except for Klein, Schwinn, Mongoose, Trek, and a few others

 

[mfh126]

This is the prototype of this one because the tubes are not the same

So that makes it a prototype?

 

[klaw71]

So that makes it a prototype?

Out of interest, why do you think this isn't a prototype? The seller say's it is, it's not the same as the brochure frame, the shock placement is different, the frame layout is different, also the welding is not the same.

 

[mfh126]

So that makes it a prototype?

Out of interest, why do you think this isn't a prototype? The seller say's it is, it's not the same as the brochure frame, the shock placement is different, the frame layout is different, also the welding is not the same.

My bust - I totally missed that in the description. Sorry guys.