Carrera B52 - Fixing a Broken Heart

[sam_white]

All quite tidy bar a few scuffs and some decal wear. If anyone one wants the serial number for the B52 register please let me know!

Er ok go on them. What year is it? The square chainstays look modern. I've seen frames from Kinesis and Liyang so could be either or someone completely different.

 

[Lucidone]

From memory and original groupset I'm guessing '95/96?

 

[Lucidone]

Not sure if this is any help on dating (April 93 seems a bit early?) but for future B52 collectors...

 

[Bobmac892]

That's looking good, suits the STX stuff but I'm tempted to throw you an offer of a trade for the Race Face headset. I had one of those on a GT i-Drive I'm re-creating at the mo. The new FSA offering I've used wasn't bothering me until now when I saw your Race Face one.
"Details man, details." he scolds himself as he wanders off to the garage to consider should he change it?

 

[Lucidone]

@Bobmac892 the Race Face headset came on a bike to me and I think it's missing a bottom sealing element - still functions perfectly just thought that might stop you getting too regretful about your FSA. If you still 'need' the Race Face let me know.

 

[sam_white]

The date is indeed April 1993. This fits with the head tube sticker too, which is around that date. Same as my old Carrera Epic road bike. I imagine this was one of a few or the only Aluminium frame bike sold that year. There was a big expansion of aluminium the following couple of years with bikes such as the Gravity, Absolute, Furnace and others I forget. Those frames were built by Liyang.
This I think is from 'The Bicycle Group' and they also built Kona and Rocky Mountain frames around the same time.

 

[Lucidone]

Thanks for your knowledge, great information!

 

[Lucidone]

It goes and it stops again!



Few hours today swapping tyres (doesn't look too bad on black walls), cabling up and adjustments. Rides nicely enough and at just under 12kg doesn't feel overly chubby when rolling.
I'm going to try a slightly longer (silver) stem as it feels a little squashed and then just need to clean it up, fill some empty bottle cage and rack mount threads and I think it'll be there.
Last mission will be to sneak it into Simon's back garden and......wait!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

It goes and it stops again!

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Few hours today swapping tyres (doesn't look too bad on black walls), cabling up and adjustments. Rides nicely enough and at just under 12kg doesn't feel overly chubby when rolling.
I'm going to try a slightly longer (silver) stem as it feels a little squashed and then just need to clean it up, fill some empty bottle cage and rack mount threads and I think it'll be there.
Last mission will be to sneak it into Simon's back garden and......wait!

That's come up a treat, well done

 

[Lucidone]

The last piece of the jigsaw came from the mystery karma pass the parcel box in the form of a nice silver stem - really like this, a fitting finale!

All finished now, fitted a cage, polished the seatpost and cleaned the cobwebs from the wheels and tyres. Just waiting for my next travels to or past Nottingham.....