Recent content by PanoIgano

This is how I see it too!

Indeed quite a few frames prior to 1988 had them until riders started complaining with their performance in muddy conditions. TREK 8000 from 87 comes to mind. They are more difficult to set up correctly but if you pass this stage and have a good combo of rims / brake pads you are in for a...

Hello everyone, I am selling a Serotta T-MAX I bought from Germany a year ago. It comes with the fork of course and a titanium bottom bracket. The frame was repainted in metalic blue at some point. The head tube is 1 inch. Top tube length is 56cm (middle to midle) Seat tube length is 46...

The EASTON stickers, seat and chainstays in the radavist article gave it away.

I finally solved my own mystery of what frame this is. It's a resprayed TREK 8500 ZX from abour 1986:

Hi everyone, I am looking for a TREK 8000 frameset from the late 80s. These were made of EASTON aluminium and had the rear brake in the chainstays. They were usually in red or the white / blue team combo but can also be found in other colors. The size I am looking is small or medium. Here is...

WOW This really looks like a keeper to me even in smaller size. Peugeot did some internal welds at the time too but tubing was not so spicy as this one. Stunner really! Anyone has a link with MBK catalogues?

I was not even aware of the Routens brand. I mean I know of the legendary rando Routens but I don't believe they are related? Anyhow they look very sophisticated tubing wise and welding wise too. I am curious to see if anyone will come up with a build thread in the future. I would love to see...

One currently in leboncoin: https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/velos/1966390623

Wow what a collection this guy has...I saw a Brodie in there somewhere...

And the plot gets a new twist... 😇 It's supper interesting to see more brands experimenting with twisted tubing. Having these tubes on lugged MTB it's even more special.

I so like the rawness of early MTBs. There is something tough about their looks and the fact that they have a more upright position makes you think the can handle everything. This was probably the case back in the day considering that the next best competitior of early MTBs were CycloCross...

I totally see what you mean. For me half the bike's worth is its paintjob. The nicer or more funky it is, the more I want to ride it. The coolest the paint job the faster it must ride... 🤓 This issue has been discussed at length in this forum too: The effect of different paint designs on...

I get dizzy the more I look at it! o_O Love the concept though... there are not many out there with these tubes.

first link is not working for me but it is a bargain for sure.