Hi!
Has anyone ran into a similar case? I acquired a bear valley frameset and while cleaning and refreshening the paint surface I ran into this. There was a tape under the paint surface on the serial number. When I took the tape off, there was the serial number (M40IA0576) which is equivalent to other bear valley -91 serial I found in retrobike thread archives.
Compared to my other -91 Marin (Palisades Trail) paint work, to other -91 Bear Vallyes and considering the condition of the paint, I have no reason to believe this is a repaint. What could be the case?
P.S. The scratches on the serial number are made by me when trying to figure out was it a zero after the four (it was)
-Turkka
Has anyone ran into a similar case? I acquired a bear valley frameset and while cleaning and refreshening the paint surface I ran into this. There was a tape under the paint surface on the serial number. When I took the tape off, there was the serial number (M40IA0576) which is equivalent to other bear valley -91 serial I found in retrobike thread archives.
Compared to my other -91 Marin (Palisades Trail) paint work, to other -91 Bear Vallyes and considering the condition of the paint, I have no reason to believe this is a repaint. What could be the case?
P.S. The scratches on the serial number are made by me when trying to figure out was it a zero after the four (it was)
-Turkka
