any Vintage Foes guru's in here?

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anyone know what year this frame is? 96 by the serial number?

just picked this frame up over the holidays, and thought it was pre v-brake but now I am not sure.
serial number on bottom bracket is 96589

it has the canti/v posts AND holes on the left side of swingarm for something, though my google fu is quite lacking as I cant find a decent pic of a disc brake early frame, so as to identify what mount goes there or ??? holes are 25mm center to center

was going to build it with M737 and a 100mm judy hydracoil or marzocchi bomber mx 03, I have both on hand, but the rear brake routing seems to be for a hydraulic hose ala magura or a disc [I don't have any disc wheels or brakes at the moment and really didn't want to buy a whole new groupo anyways] as no cable stop on the swingarm above the brake posts.

I guess v-brakes could use one piece housing all the way to the swingarm?

thanks for any help

douglas
 

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Kevhl":31m0hv98 said:
Pretty sure the mounting points were for an adapter rather than a standard sized disk mount.
Found a pic showing similar here: viewtopic.php?t=204835
Lovely frame!

thanks, back in the day, I always wanted one of these, wore out my copy of the bike-pro catalog drooling over some of these, so when it popped up I jumped on it......

and that looks like a brace on the canti post as well, I wonder if it was a Foes adapter or generic? my searches have not found anything compatible, no big issue, I think I would rather build it with either v-brakes if its a 96 or maybe magura's, I have never had a set of the hydro rim brakes, so they might be the way to go
 
I think we have a foes guy at mtb-news.de . He was posting a few pics now and then. Maybe contact him?
 
Maguras and Judy DH is the way to go, along with Azonic Shorty stem, bars!
What a bike that would be.
 
Kevhl":mefsnpr1 said:
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=77419&start=117

yes, I have seen the yellow framed Foes with the v-brakes on a google image search, but cant for the life of me see exactly how the cables are ran [no left side out pics] ......I have seen images of canti's as well, but they show a conflagration of sorts on the swingarm, which suggests the year is def 1996 or later as there is nothing on my swingarm for the cable stop etc......
 
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this one has V-brakes, cant tell how they are doing the cable, its def coming up from the frames routing points but not sure if its a full housing back to the lever or??
 

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Flicked through Pinkbike photo album and haven't found you the definative answer but:

This is the earlier version: https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl= ... mrc&uact=8

This shows the rear disk mount holes as per yours (if you look closely): https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/12134470/

This Weasel shows split outer run with V Brakes: https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/5168041/

Similar disk adapter but on the forks: https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/12134452/

Maguras going through the cable guides (I guess your frame is setup like this: https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/15452304/
And another pic of the above because it's lovely and other than the long stem very good inspiration for you: https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/14936679/

Another with maguras: https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/14296365/
 
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