JamesM
Senior Retro Guru
ozpete":3h89nov2 said:Sorry to hijack the OP's thread, but JamesM, now you have me curious to what I have. Discounting the colour scheme, which we know varies from market to market, this one has ovalised TT at the head tube, and ovalised at the seat tube / BB join. 68mm shell, vert dropouts, same seat clamp and cable routing as the yellow frame. Forks are 1 1/8" with normal dropouts, and all of the dropouts have a threaded rack mount eye. Thanks,
Pete
:? I think you have an australian one and I don't know about them. I'm just going on the frames I have and have seen over the years and the catalogues in the archive section. To me your frame sounds like a '92 timberline except for the vertical dropouts. Or a '91 Avalanche except for the 68mm BB shell and seatpost clamp. As I said though maybe they are different in the austrailian bikes. An easy way to tell the difference between those two frames (assuming it doesnt have a really really thick coat of paint) is by giving the down tube a little flick about half way along its length. If it goes tingggggggg it's an Avalanche (Tange Prestige) if it goes tonk it's a Timberline (Tange plain guage). On the Timberline the seat tube will ovalise (like the tube has been squashed a bit) at the BB. On the Avalanche it will also ovalise but have a distinct step change in diameter (a bulge).