I love the Kona Stars and Bars colour scheme and a titanium frame is probably the ultimate for me, but I can't help thinking there's too much red in all the other components
This is a classic retro-mod build, with one of the best steel frames from the 90's and one of the best looking modern silver groupsets.
The asking price is probably about right considering the frame alone is worth £700-800 and the rest of the bits about the same.
Someone should grab themselves a...
Looks like a mid-nineties Tig welded Columbus Genius frameset.
These frames are probably as good a steel frame as you could get, before everything moved towards aluminium and then carbon.
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My new work bike. Excellent way to get around the 40 acres of vineyard I'm currently managing.
I used to have a 94 Lavadome build and swapped most of the parts over to this one.
Drivetrain and shifters are Deore LX 563 and a pair of Rockshox forks with short travel.
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I stand corrected on the tyre clearance for 80's/90's steel frames.
The framesets I've built up, have mainly been the type that would have been raced or used without mudguards.
There is a difference in handling characteristics between a short wheelbase (non Mudguard) and a long wheelbase...