DB Sorrento 1990

[velomaniac]

OK I accept that the Sorrento is low end, at least I think it is, not up on the DB pecking order :roll:

So what kind of steel is it likely to be ?

Also any pics as the frame i've just bought is supposed to be yellow black but it is now metallic racing green.

Cheers RB Gurus

 

[cce]

my 1995 one had cromo main tubes with hi-ten stays

 

[chrisv40]

My recently acquired Topanga which I think was one up in the range from the Sorrento has True Temper AVR main tubes, I wouldn't be surprised if the Sorrento is the same.

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[Neil]

OK I accept that the Sorrento is low end, at least I think it is, not up on the DB pecking order :roll:

So what kind of steel is it likely to be ?

Also any pics as the frame i've just bought is supposed to be yellow black but it is now metallic racing green.

Cheers RB Gurus

I've got the 91 brochure, so can give you the spec from that. Give me a day or so to dig it out, though.

Whether there was much significant difference between the spec of 90 and 91 bikes, I'm not sure (late 80s / turn of the 90s is when I think the switch to True Temper tubes, from Tange, for DB).

 

[velomaniac]

After a wee bit of research I have discovered the DB Sorrento and the DB Topanga have the same frame and forks. Thus would it be a bad thing if I were to have the frame resprayed and decalled as a Topanga because a 1990 Topanga was available in plain white which is surely the easiest paintjob to replicate. Also means I can have better spec parts

 

[drystonepaul]

Well according to the catalogue, in 1992 the Sorrento had double butted True Temper AVR frame and forks, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that the same was true in 1990.

Seems to have been normal for DBs to share the same frames across large parts of the model range back then.

 

[Neil]

Well according to the catalogue, in 1992 the Sorrento had double butted True Temper AVR frame and forks, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that the same was true in 1990.

Seems to have been normal for DBs to share the same frames across large parts of the model range back then.

I'll check my 91 brochure, later, but in the early 90s, lower down the range, the frames may have had AVR main tubes, but plain gauge or normal steel rear triangle.

I've certainly seen that on some of the lower models where DB make a point in their brochure or on the frame decals about AVR tubing being used.

 

[DeletedUser006]

Is this the one

I had one BITD from new, was a cool bike. It could be an 89 model now that I think about when it was

 

[velomaniac]

If the DB Sorrento from 89/90 was plain yellow I could stick with a Sorrento build. The frame i've bought has been resprayed british racing green which is too dull for me plus some of DB's paint schemes would be hard to replicate so a yellow Sorrento or white Topanga would make things easy if I was going the authentic route.........though with me that isn't guaranteed :roll:

 

[Neil]

Well according to the catalogue, in 1992 the Sorrento had double butted True Temper AVR frame and forks, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that the same was true in 1990.

Seems to have been normal for DBs to share the same frames across large parts of the model range back then.

I'll check my 91 brochure, later, but in the early 90s, lower down the range, the frames may have had AVR main tubes, but plain gauge or normal steel rear triangle.

I've certainly seen that on some of the lower models where DB make a point in their brochure or on the frame decals about AVR tubing being used.

91 Sorrento is listed as "CR-MO three main tubes" and had a chromo forks. Groupset was 200GS.