Fastback stays +identification help please
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Thank you for all the replies on this, especially the ones with helpful pictures. I ask (ages ago apparently!) partly out of general interested, but prompted by much purchase of a frame.
I've finally got round to taking some photos. Any help with possible identification would be very much appreciated.
All I know is the frame had the drop-outs changed for horizontal ones for single speed and was repainted at the same time. I wasn't even sure how old it would be, given there is no rear canti bridge. The frame number, MT93027679 if you can't read it, points at possibly '93, so I guess a canti bridge or guide could have been removed while frame alterations were being done, but I can't see any signs.
Any other pictures or info that would help let me know. I plan to sling a few parts on it just to take it out for a quick spin when I get time just to check it's not too small for me to use, but other than that nothing decided other than a repaint.
I've finally got round to taking some photos. Any help with possible identification would be very much appreciated.
All I know is the frame had the drop-outs changed for horizontal ones for single speed and was repainted at the same time. I wasn't even sure how old it would be, given there is no rear canti bridge. The frame number, MT93027679 if you can't read it, points at possibly '93, so I guess a canti bridge or guide could have been removed while frame alterations were being done, but I can't see any signs.
Any other pictures or info that would help let me know. I plan to sling a few parts on it just to take it out for a quick spin when I get time just to check it's not too small for me to use, but other than that nothing decided other than a repaint.
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Porkpie
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Anyone recognise the frame number format?
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Spudly pointed out to me that it actually has two frame numbers, one on either the bottom bracket shell.
So as well as: MT93027679
The other side has: MB10934
The bottom bracket shell is 68mm and the seat post is 30.0mm
Any ideas or anything else I could check to help identify it?
So as well as: MT93027679
The other side has: MB10934
The bottom bracket shell is 68mm and the seat post is 30.0mm
Any ideas or anything else I could check to help identify it?
lrh
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Just spotted this borderline-BSO Anlen with fastbacks circa 1990, possibly inspired by Gary Fisher before they bought them?
Maybe has their fingerprints on it if it came out of Taiwan.
http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/solid-as-a-rock-massive-framed-mountain-bike-oxford-65/1007279229
Maybe has their fingerprints on it if it came out of Taiwan.
http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/solid-as-a-rock-massive-framed-mountain-bike-oxford-65/1007279229
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The welding looks a bit blotchier on that and the top tube cable guides are different, but I won't rule it out as a possibility, since I have absolutely no idea!
Thanks for the reply
I was already starting to be resigned to it being my "Mystery Fastback".
Thanks for the reply
I was already starting to be resigned to it being my "Mystery Fastback".
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and I certainly haven't discounted the possibility that someone had the dropouts changed and a new paint job on a cheap frame.
I did spend 4 times as much on the powdercoating for my Karakoram Elite as I did on the whole bike originally after all!
I did spend 4 times as much on the powdercoating for my Karakoram Elite as I did on the whole bike originally after all!
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I like that Ridgeback
I agree that the quality and weight (I should remove the forks and headset and actually weigh it) are more important than who made it, but unfortunately once I start thinking about something I have to know the answer.
I agree that the quality and weight (I should remove the forks and headset and actually weigh it) are more important than who made it, but unfortunately once I start thinking about something I have to know the answer.
