Recent content by 3stonesteve

I've had this Saracen for about 3 or 4 years now and I thought it deserved it's place in the spotlight here before I moved it on. It came up on ebay quite close to me with little interest being shown. A mate of mine had a similar bike previously which he raved about before it got nicked, so...

Re: No worries, I ideally need to thin the collection out before acquiring another...

Re: Is this still available???

Re: My 1990 Saracen Trekker Comp has a Deore XT "Super Oversize" 1-1/4" threaded headset: It's a 7005 ally frame along with the regular Trekker from that period

Re: Cool, I have a 21" Montage which I've had since my secondary school days, it's still lovely to ride. It had been bought and then returned at Halfrauds (don't know why) but it was otherwise as new, just a couple of paint marks so we got about £40 off (I seem to think they cost about £200 in...

That's lush! I'm loving the black/brown combo with polished silver - just stunning mate :)

Updated - 199? 7005 GT - Spot the difference! Well, I kept trying to think of what to do with this GT. It's a nice enough frame, light & stiff but I have no original bits for it and no desire to return it to original (I have other more interesting bikes for that). Retro-modern would be one way...

I don't think he means "one piece crank" in the BMX sense, but rather a lower spec square taper crank where the sprockets are riveted to the arms and not interchangeable. I don't recall any Saracens being that cheap as to be fitted with BMX style single piece cranks! As suggested, you'd be best...

Re: This is polished - Mmmm shiny.... So I guess mine is ball burnished, unless they did another type of brushed finish?

Here's one of mine... snapped it up locally off eb@y a while ago, it's waiting its turn for some attention at the moment. 1990 Saracen Trekker Comp with 7005 ally frame! Should have a full Deore XT comp groupset, so it's been swapped about a bit. Frame, forks, headset & stem are all original...

Thanks guys, I came up with pretty much the same when researching the frame style: 1996 Avalanche or Backwoods 1997 Avalanche or Backwoods 1998 Backwoods or Tempest All were available as either polished or ball-burnished silver finish depending on which model/year combo you got. Apparently the...

Hi folks, I'm after a bit of help to pin the year/spec of this GT I picked up off a mate? If anyone can help identify the year and/or spec, I'd be most grateful! Unfortunately, it's had all the name decals removed, all that's left are the frame size - 18" and the alloy 7000 series stickers...

That's a bit of a conundrum... The "Team Saracen" name on your downtube generally appears on models in the 1998 catalogue onwards, before that it's just "Saracen" albeit in that same font. Problem is the canti-brakes suggest its earlier as all 1998 on all have V-Brakes, unless the cantis have...

Yep 1990 model, it's in the catalogue scan in the archive - Trekker Comp, listed as race ready with Deore XT... I'll let you know how original it is when I've collected it tomorrow 8) Steve.

Before finding this site I had 1 retro MTB which 1 barely rode and 1 Retro BMX, both from my childhood (late 80's/early 90's). I now have 2 modern (ish 2000? & 2005) MTB's 2 retro MTB's, a retro Roadie, my BMX and a couple in bits lol