NOS Scapin Steel MTB frame

[DrDaveTampa]

Thoughts on this frame?

Seems like I sorta remember Cagiva from hanging out with a bunch of gear-heads that were into obscure Italian racing motorcycles. Same elephant logo. I remember Porsche had a mountain bike, as did BMW, perhaps this is a similar branding exercise? I've heard of Scapin, dunno anything about that steel and nothing is immediately popping up on the interwebs

Welds are nice, and perhaps more to the point, seems to have a nice paint job... it's like, if you pay for the paint you get a frame for free. All you pay is shipping! (Think my wife will go for that? Honey -- I have enough parts to build a whole nuther bike! Wait, she's heard that one before...)

 

[Rotorhead]

Lovely colour and paint. I don't know anything about those tubes but think the weight is respectable. Quite a stretched out top tube as they were. 70mm bottom bracket shell: not sure how easy it is to fill that?

 

[racecarjohnny]

I purchased one a few months back and am building it up now. Bargain for the $.

 

[Ackers]

Out of interest, was that from the same seller?

 

[racecarjohnny]

Out of interest, was that from the same seller?

It was

 

[DrDaveTampa]

70mm bottom bracket shell: not sure how easy it is to fill that?

I believe that's the standard Italian bb size; they still make Italian bb's which aren't expensive, just gotta look for em on ebay or amazon. Seems like Phil Wood cups are also readily available if that's your thing

 

[kingoffootball]

It's usually pretty easy to find some nice quality Italian threaded bottom brackets. I have several as options for my Scapin frames, including XT ones and some less common ones. Just remember when it come to fitting it that both sides are RH thread

 

[Markybeau]

Cagiva had a Moto gp / 500 gp team up until the end of the 94 season. I wouldn't be surprised if these were made for the team.