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Thanks Stringfellow, I will spend some time googling some images for the Look KG series, I've done it for TVT and I haven't found a frame the same as mine using TVT as the search enquiry. There was a similar frame on ebay some months ago in South America I think, but that was the only one like mine i've seen.
Perhaps a short-lived frame design? Interesting that TVT made the early look frames, but if the BB stamp code is correct to the year then this is way out of scope for that, which makes it a bit of an oddity I guess. It's lovely and light, I'm just not keen on the colours nor the decals, but I reckon I can get the decals off so I may do that in the first instance.
Can I ask - do any of your frames have an aluminium insert in the seat tube? Circa 200mm down there is a bonded tube which may or may not have the bottle bosses integrated into it. It is unclear as to whether this is a one piece construction that emanates from the BB shell?
That's interesting - the colour on that TVT is the same as the front end on mine, suggesting it is from a similar period? All very subtle differences between these frames with some cross-overs between the brands of TVT and Look.
Mike - Media blasting is the use of fine media (sand / glass) fired via compressed air and it literally blasts the top layers of paint off down to bare metal. Used a lot in restoration projects but in many instances it is used on heavy grade steel etc, slightly different from alloy and carbon! I'm sure it can be done though, I just need to entrust somebody who's done it before.
