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Cable routing and other braze ons ) often varied from frame batch to batch, if that's any help.

I made a seperate post for this but think it should be here as well: 1993 Saracen Traverse Elite. Changes from original: Wheels, stem, bars, and shifters (1995 LX) And fork. I like the wheels as they are and will be adding better tyres. Cockpit will be getting changed back to Ritchey...

That thar be a 1992. https://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/d/114212-2/Saracen_1992.pdf BOAB

Same. I have repaired my bikes when I WORKED in a bikeshop, because tools were/are expensive and I was a poor, but never had anyone fix one of mine for me. I am not a barbarian. Also never built a wheel. ( Fixed plenty, but built from parts? nope) One day though... BOAB

What would you be looking for? Were there particular things to be looking out for?

Hi folks, the Trekker I found fell through BUT a Traverse Elite popped up so I bought that instead - not as original as the Trekker was but it's still got a lot of original parts. Paint is good if a LITTLE faded in places - the main problem with the paint being on the top tube which the...

For downhilling.

Oooh Ta! @Skeeter1 : Any chance of pics of the rest of the Saracen Review and the conclusions from the group test?

Oh yes, good thinking. Cheers.

Hi mate, you're welcome! It's great to hear your whole story behind the bike and how you're going with it. BOAB is just short for Baldy on a Bike - me signing off :-) With the sizes yes I was wondering if you'd stayed the same sizes from bike to bike as I have changed a few times myself...

You're not mucking about are you? :-D This is really going to be special, I think. Have you gone up a size at all? Here's my Kona story. Late 92 I went to Bicycleexpo in Alexandra Palace and hoovered up all the catalogues. Kona were there and Saracen who were two of my favourite stands at the...

That Traverse is just fantastic! It's deffo the coolest of the pair. Have you compared the ride with the Tufftrax?

I am glad I am not hallucinating about it being a 93 model - I know that I have seen a few now and all of them fitted with 93 Exage. Indeed that year, you could get the base Saracen Max Drive fork in either Chromo or Alu flavours, a Tange sus fork, RS Quadras or RC 35s. I can remember going to...

It looks like a A Pro frame to me. It's definitely not a Raleigh. BOAB

Hi folks, I am picking up a 93 Trekker on Saturday. It'll need something doing to the fork ( I may get new elastomers, I may replace the fork, either is possible ) but I am quite excited to find a nice small one. Thing is, is there a page missing from the Saracen 93 Catalogue scan? I went to...