Can someone help identifying this Carrera?

[Kousoulakos K]

Hello from Greece, I’m new on this site. I have this Carrera bicycle but I don’t know what model it is. The original paint was something like purple or dark blue, the bike has been restored and upgraded, it has full Deore XT m739, Marzocchi bomber z1 x-fly front fork, Easton seatpost, Specialized Revolution saddle, Ritchey grips etc. I want to know what model it is. I believe it’s from Halfords and a pre 2000 model because it has not rear disc mounts.

 

[sam_white]

I'll jump in. The head tube logo is older than the bike, that's a badge from 92/93 ish era, early 90s. The bike is post '97, as no rear cantilever stop, so designed for v-brakes. It could even be a post 2000 bike as not everything had disc brake mounts that early. The funky tube shapes are also early 00's.
Have you found a frame number?

 

[Kousoulakos K]

I'll jump in. The head tube logo is older than the bike, that's a badge from 92/93 ish era, early 90s. The bike is post '97, as no rear cantilever stop, so designed for v-brakes. It could even be a post 2000 bike as not everything had disc brake mounts that early. The funky tube shapes are also early 00's.
Have you found a frame number?

Here it is, also it says ST on the left dropout

 

[sam_white]

Frame number is a new one to me. However it looks as if the frame is 2000, or 2002 if that helps.

 

[Kousoulakos K]

Thank you for your reply but I know that the year is somewhere around 2000. What I want to know is the model of the bike, if someone can help me with that.

 

[Kousoulakos K]

Seriously, if ever someone finds out what Carrera model it is I will pay him

 

[Kousoulakos K]

Frame number is a new one to me. However it looks as if the frame is 2000, or 2002 if that helps.

Since it has a frame number, it can't be custom made, right?

 

[Black_puma]

as someone who's worked for Halfords for 16+ years and has seen many Carrera bikes an all shapes and forms I have never seen one look like that, so I doubt it is a Carrera. There's nothing to stop people from putting wrong decals on bikes, it happens quite frequently.
Even Carrera's early aluminium frames had round top and down tubes and very different looking drop outs. Later, say post 2000 had hydroformed tubes very different from how this one looks, a google search will help find different models of Carrera bikes. Did it have any original Carrera stickers or stamps indicating what aluminium was used?

 

[Kousoulakos K]

as someone who's worked for Halfords for 16+ years and has seen many Carrera bikes an all shapes and forms I have never seen one look like that, so I doubt it is a Carrera. There's nothing to stop people from putting wrong decals on bikes, it happens quite frequently.
Even Carrera's early aluminium frames had round top and down tubes and very different looking drop outs. Later, say post 2000 had hydroformed tubes very different from how this one looks, a google search will help find different models of Carrera bikes. Did it have any original Carrera stickers or stamps indicating what aluminium was used?

Yes I understand, what you say is right. My father had a friend that he gave the bike to him and he restored it 15 years ago ,not with these parts but with very very cheap and much lower quality in general were all the components it had. He remembers that when he saw it first time, it was in a terrible state but had Carrera stickers on it. So after he painted it white pearl he put some Carrera stickers but not the original, these were like the Carrera sunglasses logo. So in 2024 when I saved up some money, I replaced all the things it had with the ones I mentioned above, I changed everything on the bicycle and I put the front sticker to be more “original”, I did all these things because I believed it was an old Carrera mtb. I actually think that when my father's friend had it, he just put some random Carrera stickers on it. Then my father saw it later (he has no idea about bikes) and thought it was actually a Carrera. I would go and ask his friend, but unfortunately he is not alive. After all the search I have done on Google and many other online sources, I don't believe it is a Carrera anymore. But what it is really??

 

[Black_puma]

Yes I understand, what you say is right. My father had a friend that he gave the bike to him and he restored it 15 years ago ,not with these parts but with very very cheap and much lower quality in general were all the components it had. He remembers that when he saw it first time, it was in a terrible state but had Carrera stickers on it. So after he painted it white pearl he put some Carrera stickers but not the original, these were like the Carrera sunglasses logo. So in 2024 when I saved up some money, I replaced all the things it had with the ones I mentioned above, I changed everything on the bicycle and I put the front sticker to be more “original”, I did all these things because I believed it was an old Carrera mtb. I actually think that when my father's friend had it, he just put some random Carrera stickers on it. Then my father saw it later (he has no idea about bikes) and thought it was actually a Carrera. I would go and ask his friend, but unfortunately he is not alive. After all the search I have done on Google and many other online sources, I don't believe it is a Carrera anymore. But what it is really??

that is the question, isn't it/
It did remind me of Viking's bikes, basic low budget bikes. (this was just from looking at the rear stays, but I can't even be sure it's a Viking either.