Parkpre Ti Frame

[nogueira.nuno]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LITESPEED-TIT ... 1c1f155778

 

[Agency_Scum]

I'm broken hearted. What a lovely lovely bike and I'm totally broke. Boo hoo!

 

[Anthony]

Slightly strange description. Surely it's just a Pro Elite, not a race team special. Also it looks later than the date that Litespeed told him. I wouldn't set great store by what the current people at Litespeed know about stuff from BITD.

 

[taffy]

Love the bullsh... uh blurb.

IF YOU KNOW A BIT ABOUT LITESPEED'S STORY.....THIS FRAME WILL LEAP OUT AT YOU AS A CLASSIC PIECE OF THAT HISTORY. BACK IN THE DAY WHEN TITANIUM WAS KING....THE EARLY TO MID-NINETIES....LOTS OF ROAD AND MOUNTAIN PRO RACING TEAMS WANTED THE BEST...AND THE BEST WAS TITANIUM. HOWEVER, LITESPEED WAS ABOUT THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN...THE GUYS WHO'D FIGURED OUT HOW TO REALLY WORK WITH THIS EXOTIC METAL.

Which makes my Merlin and Marin utterly worthless ! Merlin and Sandvik pah - who! :roll:

MOST TEAMS HAD SPONSORSHIP CONTRACTS WITH MANUFACTURERS WHO DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT Ti. SO IT BECAME COMMON PRACTICE FOR THE TOP PROS TO RIDE LITESPEEDS....PAINTED TO LOOK LIKE THE BIKES FROM THEIR SPONSORS.

and more :roll:

a 92 model with v brake guides my my.

 

[dbmtb]

Love the bullsh... uh blurb.

a 92 model with v brake guides my my.

Not so.

It's definitely earlier than my Pro-Elite, which is a 93 or 94, and not made by Litespeed.

The "v-brake guide" is the brake cable stop noodle holder. It's actually placed wrong for use as a guide - outer will bend too much at the brake itself.

 

[Anthony]

Love the bullsh... uh blurb.
a 92 model with v brake guides my my.

Not so.
It's definitely earlier than my Pro-Elite, which is a 93 or 94, and not made by Litespeed.
The "v-brake guide" is the brake cable stop noodle holder. It's actually placed wrong for use as a guide - outer will bend too much at the brake itself.

As Taffy is saying, the guide has nothing to do with V-brakes. It is a canti cable guide and it is in the perfect position.

What makes you think it is earlier than your frame?

 

[Woz]

I had a short email correspondance with the seller, it is was incorrectly sized initially. I can confirm it is not the same as the "far east / russian" production version - drop-outs are slightly more horizontal, clearly there is a head-tube shim of a sort, BB engravings from factory are very discrete, and I think they had a slightly steeper head-tube angle.

BTW: They were canti specific, but the special noodle that goes through the cable guide braze on is almost impossible to find. It's just nice luck that a V-brake doesn't look out of place.