Diamond Back DB Apex - possibly 1992?

Thanks for the pics - I have a 92 Axis, too - just need time and motivation to build it up.

Does yours take a 30.0mm seatpost?
 
firedfromthecircus":21fs77ao said:
minor_LEGEND":21fs77ao said:
DB heaven.


+1. :lol:

Can I just ask why both bikes are not on original forks?
Well it may be for similar reasons as I find myself with my 91 Axis - I'm not the original owner, and at some point the stock forks were swapped out - I'm guessing for boingy ones, although when it came to me, it had those awful, suspension corrected P2s on (where the correction is above the fork crown, rather than in the A->C measurement).

I'd love a pair of the stock forks to go on, at present, it's on a pair of P2s, but I have a pair of plain black constant radius forks that could go on, a spare pair of forks from a 91 Apex (so red tiger stripe...) so at some point I may change them over.

However, my 92 Axis is the original frame and forks, as is my 91 Apex, 95 Apex, and my 2nd 95 Apex has the correct forks, but in the alternate colour (!). My 93 Apex frame, though, is sans forks.
 
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As for me, when I bought my '92 Axis in 1993, I bought Mag 21s for them & tossed the stock fork ( :facepalm: ). That bike went from main MTB, to road bike, to frame-only, to almost tossed it, to a re-interest in vintage MTBs and subsequent re-build. Being hard to find a rigid 1 1/8 fork with that length steer tube, found a cheapo Chinese fork on Ebay & build completed. Possibly getting a '92 Ascent off Craigslist for $15 - stealing the fork to rattle-can black & see how it looks/rides. Would LOVE to find the original fork somewhere with a long enough (200mm) steerer tube :)

As for the '91 Axis Team, scored it off Ebay for $300 (full XT group going to the '92 Axis), but had crappy Scott Unishocks on it - no original fork. Found a cheap, old Mongoose fork on Ebay, rattle-canned it black, and got it running :)

I was lucky with the '91 Apex - came complete (along with original forks) as in the pic. Scored off Craigslist for $40. Currently in the re-build process while my son grows big enough to ride it :)
 
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No kidding - nothing more aesthetically pleasing as a simple looking & riding paint-matched rigid fork for a vintage bike :) I was just a young, stupid 19-year old back then - if only I knew back then what I know now :facepalm:
 
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