FINNEY1973
Senior Retro Guru
Evening people - jumped over the fence from the road section in the hope that you guys are as knowledgeable & helpful as the road lot.
I bought an old road bike from a chap who lives near me and the following has cropped up and knowing very little about MTB's I need some help.
He has 2 x Lotus badged MTB/ATB bikes from the early 90's (possibly).
First, a red Lotus Sport with what I will describe as not particularly sporting geometry.
Second, a Lotus Sport ITS?? what appears to be carbon tubes into alloy BB, seatcluster, headtube, forks, rear triangle with deore LX groupset.
So to the help - I've read that Lotus did a few years of producing bikes on a commercial basis. So are these bikes desirable? are they scarce? do they have value as old school machines - if I say one has been to the shops and back a few times and the other has never been ridden, does this add a bit of spice to the equation.
Any help, advice, knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
I bought an old road bike from a chap who lives near me and the following has cropped up and knowing very little about MTB's I need some help.
He has 2 x Lotus badged MTB/ATB bikes from the early 90's (possibly).
First, a red Lotus Sport with what I will describe as not particularly sporting geometry.
Second, a Lotus Sport ITS?? what appears to be carbon tubes into alloy BB, seatcluster, headtube, forks, rear triangle with deore LX groupset.
So to the help - I've read that Lotus did a few years of producing bikes on a commercial basis. So are these bikes desirable? are they scarce? do they have value as old school machines - if I say one has been to the shops and back a few times and the other has never been ridden, does this add a bit of spice to the equation.
Any help, advice, knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers