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dylan_bhafc":3jh9i864 said:
Bit harsh to say its junk! Maybe what was meant is that the price they were asking for it new didn't warrent the quality of the groupset, although it certainly wasn't a cheap groupset!!
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Bit harsh to say its junk! Maybe what was meant is that the price they were asking for it new didn't warrent the quality of the groupset, although it certainly wasn't a cheap groupset!!
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So the groupset is junk then?[/quote]
The customer was into racing and the problem he had was with indexing and chainslip when even slightly dirty. We tried different chain and blocks with no success. I think you should ask other retrobikers for their opinion as I've never owned any xc pro myself (I was a mechanic in a bike shop about 15 years ago!) It may not be that bad if you don't race it and treat it with a bit of respect!
The customer was into racing and the problem he had was with indexing and chainslip when even slightly dirty. We tried different chain and blocks with no success. I think you should ask other retrobikers for their opinion as I've never owned any xc pro myself (I was a mechanic in a bike shop about 15 years ago!) It may not be that bad if you don't race it and treat it with a bit of respect!
But if you look on the specifications page, you will see that it could be ordered either with XC Pro as listed, or with DX, or with XT, or with XTR. Which is why I said the equipment was custom. The concept 'custom' includes the concept 'XC Pro'.tiboltrider123":129na8ca said:Yep!Agree with EasyRider!
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Dylan, if the one you're looking at is black, I'd say it's worth no more than a standard Explosif - i.e., about 4-5 Albion tickets for the frame, 8-10 Albion tickets for the bike.
Note that I've labelled both of the coloured examples below as 1991. That's because they both have frame features characteristic of 1991 frames, but the blue one has the rear brake booster that was only on 1992 bikes. The only '1992' Explosif Pros that I've seen have frames that look like 91 frames, so my little theory is that maybe they used a batch of unsold 91 frames for at least some of the 92 Explosif Pros. Those measurements could be evidence for or against this little theory.
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Kona Paul":uzos38mw said:
It's pictured with suspension in the scan above....
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Just to add, it does have the brake booster at the back and from how he described the forks that were on the bike they sound very much like the ones in the scanned pic of a pro
That's true, but it was at around this point that designers began to realise that fitting 42cm forks like that (not all that many of which were made incidentally, but that's another story) wasn't all that good an idea if the geometry was effective for a 39cm P2. Kona frames went 'suspension-adjusted' (and P2s went to 41cm) in 1994.Easy_Rider":s7o0p5it said:
dylan_bhafc
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It seems that my special interest and questions about the bike have casued the guy to reconsider selling and is now no longer for sale The search goes on!
