Kult Friction
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Hi all, This is my first post on retrobike despite being on the outside looking in for many months now. I was wondering if there is anyone out there that could shed some light as to what this frame is? It's clearly been repainted and was advertised as a Trek, but im pretty certain it's not as I dont recall them ever making a steel frame with wishbone, so I bought it on a whim mainly down to curiousity, but for once I am totally stumped and despite much research of old catalogues, posts etc... I am still at a loss, The dropouts look familiar but I just cannot put my finger on it.
At first glance it reminds me of my old p7 and clockwork, but it's not an orange, it's almost like a Bontrager, but no gussets.... My guess is that it's mid to late nineties due to the lack of disc mount and canti hanger, but then that could have been removed when re-sprayed? And that's as far as i can get...
What I do know is that it takes an 1 1/8 headset, 27.2 seatpost, the seat tube tapers at the wishbone/toptube junction with south of the junction being larger diameter to accomodate a 31.8 front mech. The frame has really neat welds, very small dropouts (possibly cast) with holes where the tubes join and it's light with very thin walled oversized tubes throughout, when giving it the flick test it has more of a 'ping' than my '90 Explosif but that could just be down to the larger diameter tubing.
If anyone can help me out that would be awesome as I would really love to know what it is, even if just to quell my curiousity... Cheers in advance guys.
At first glance it reminds me of my old p7 and clockwork, but it's not an orange, it's almost like a Bontrager, but no gussets.... My guess is that it's mid to late nineties due to the lack of disc mount and canti hanger, but then that could have been removed when re-sprayed? And that's as far as i can get...
What I do know is that it takes an 1 1/8 headset, 27.2 seatpost, the seat tube tapers at the wishbone/toptube junction with south of the junction being larger diameter to accomodate a 31.8 front mech. The frame has really neat welds, very small dropouts (possibly cast) with holes where the tubes join and it's light with very thin walled oversized tubes throughout, when giving it the flick test it has more of a 'ping' than my '90 Explosif but that could just be down to the larger diameter tubing.
If anyone can help me out that would be awesome as I would really love to know what it is, even if just to quell my curiousity... Cheers in advance guys.
