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Love turq bling. The way interest is going on here people will have moved onto cooing over Bosch battery packs soon. 😞

Cool stem, never seen one before 🤔 GLWTS

Germany is your best bet. Stick a Wanted ad up on https://www.mtb-news.de/ Well worth it, these are amazing to ride 👍

I have a mint Fred Salmon one in turquoise. £20 + shipping PPG

Gorgeous glwts.

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If only these were 32h rims.

Always love colour matched forks 👍

They switched to the larger head tube when production moved to Saratoga NY. FAT closed ops in Somerville in Oct 94. They move a lot of tubing and part built bikes to NY and finished them off and used up the earlier tubing on builds. I have seen Yos/Ti still using 1” head tubes into 96. So the...

Gorgeous brakes. Fyi Gil has the decals for these on file.

Same things gonna happen to the EU car industry now. Cheap Far East made electric cars made of plastic components that go hard, crack and aren’t worth repairing, just outside the warranty period of course. Unexpectedly high recycling charges and so it goes on and on. Everybody wants cheap cr@p...

I think Gary Helfrich would have something to say about that back in the mid 80s when he was chief welder at FAT CITY CYCLES 😆 Bean counters and Taiwanese mass produced cr@p all contributed to the race to the bottom quality wise in the 90s.

That is frikin gorgeous. Any more pics like that and i will have to keep mine 🤔🤔🤔 🙇🏻‍♂️ Mine has the rear canti bridge so no need for the brake booster. Bullet stays, just love em and they really improve the ride ‘feel’.

A 93 Yo and a 93 Ti have the same geometry as standard. So unless one or the other has custom geo the only differences will be as mentioned above, due to the custom spec steel or Ti tubing used in fabrication. This determines the ride characteristics and ease of maintenance etc. Steel FATs need...

The 94 Tis onwards have fully externally double butted main tubes. 91 protos, 92s and 93 usually had a mix ( top of seat tube ) but some of the late production 93 have more butts ( there is variation out there ) but they had welded gussets and a BB sleeve as limited production was an ‘evolving...