It feels like a money grab to be honest.
You know I like to go to these things to look at old bikes , but also let my stuff be appreciated too.
But £54 plus food, plus fuel makes it an expensive day in a field to me.
Dropouts aren’t anything like the Hots.
Deffo a mid range 98/99 frame.
I don’t think people tend to down grade models so at best it’s a Kilauea but also maybe a caldera (not the cool one)
Personally I think it’s a later (98/99) Kilauea that the owner had painted in the scheme but had the years matching decals too. But obviously didn’t get the correct tubing ones.
Yes I understand they are different.
My comment is that M70/R are often on ebay for £5 and the M70R2 have hundreds available.
Nothing rare about either.
They come up often and aren’t rare.
The V brake versions there are literally hundreds on eBay.
I bought a massive joblot of various XT / XTR pads for about £20 years ago.