What Bike is This? - Max Glaskin & Jeremy Torr book - 1988

[JCS]

The bike on the cover of this 1988 book is very cool. Elegant fork, sloping top tube, chain-stay mounted roller-cam brake. Looks to be fillet brazed.
Anyone know the manufacturer / model?

 

[kafer-k]

Who is the rider? Looks like the 1984 Norba champions jersey.

 

[Frankenorange]

Interesting.... In front of the bottle there looks to be a silver fish on the downtube. That looks kind of familiar as does the top tube graphic but damned if i can remember what it is!!!

 

[ferrus]

It does indeed look familiar…

Incidentally, what rear mech’ is that?

 

[Frankenorange]

The derailleur is all kinds of deformed in the photo so hard to say. Identifying the shifters first, as they are pretty sharp, might help id the derailleur.

 

[Frankenorange]

Deore XT thumbies?

 

[ferrus]

“all kinds of deformed” - I was hoping that was some customised FrankenMech