ascent

Hiya people, I work as a volunteer in a cycle repair and restoration place. We get donated bikes to get to saleable standard. This Diamond Back Ascent caught my eye. Frame is cosmetically poor, but sound. I started work on it today. To me it is an out of the ordinary bike, just wonder what...

I picked this up several months ago as someone's unloved commuter bike. Not many of the original components actually remained apart from the stem, an indexed headset and a very rough bottom bracket. So it was stripped back to the frame and put to one side. These frames were apparently made...