1990 Muddy Fox Trailblazer Sprint completed!!

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Picked this up locally last weekend off a lovely guy who uses this site.

It’s totally original apart from the stem fitted (he gave me original to fit) and the bar tape which was yellow fading to white originally.

It’s a lovely thing and in fantastic condition with only a polish to paintwork and few bits tidying to complete.

I’m restraining myself from starting until I’ve finished my orange aluminium elite build.

I couldn’t decide whether it should go on here or road section but guessed it didn’t matter too much as qualifies (kinda) for both.

It rides great and the colours are awesome!

Need to find some yellow to white faded bar tape if anyone knows where I may get done to get it back to standard. Have ordered some nice skinwall panaracer paseala tyres too as the original tyres are persifhed a little.

Will post more when the recommission commences :LOL:
 

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Re: 1990 Muddy Fox Trailblazer Sprint

Can’t believe its still on the original rubber! Haven’t seen any more of these?
 
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That my friend is a corker! You must be delighted an absolute gem!
 
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Thank you. Yes I’m pretty chuffed with this. Racing modern CX in my spare time (pre covid) I find that this is a lovely piece of MTB/cyclocross weirdness when manufacturers were literally trying to reinvent the wheel. I really like it and hope people enjoy this thread.
A gravel bike ??? Pre the idea of a ‘gravel bike’????

That’s what I thought when I saw it!
 
Re: 1990 Muddy Fox Trailblazer Sprint

very nice. good period for MF
 
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That's looking tidy! Nice project.

Added this to the catalogue scans recently -

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=415580

Like RBG says - its interesting how many 'gravel' bikes they offered in 1990. Well ahead of the current trend. The colours and decal designs are great too. :cool:

Watching with interest.

boy"O"boy
 
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Thanks mate. Yeah I seen your scan and it was a great help at identifying the exact year and bar tape. Still can’t find and yellow to white fade like standard so may have to compromise with two solid colours or even go blue with yellow on the lower drops.....

Not a lot at all on these when researching do the scan much appreciated. ......
 
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Gravel, pah, it's a hybrid. Nothing new or ahead of its time in that. Ok it's got drop bars but so do touring bikes.

Still, nice.
 
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