Recent content by Jonny69

I've never seen a 650c one. I was about to ask if you'd mixed it up with something else but it looks like the Vengeance model with the aero downtube were 650c. There's a catalogue scan here: https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/1997-gt-edge-aero-21036 They must have been brutal to ride!

There’s only really one word needed here which is ALL THE YES I had one of these a while back in bare alloy. I didn’t have the original fork so put on an early TCR carbon fork from the same era. Like you say, the frames are a work of art and the fabrication is sublime. They’re way lighter than...

Looks like a refinished 50s or earlier frame. Probably earlier, going on the low-down bend in the fork and the Osgear style rear dropouts, but having said that, my Hobbs has a low bend like that and it’s 1950. Canti studs were probably added later. As bagpuss said, can you post some more pics...

You’ll most likely want 56-57cm, maybe 58cm depending on whether you like longer or shorter reach 👍

Wowsers! Can you do some close-ups of the paint detail?

Everything looks so barely used! What are those tyres?

Very cool find, I’ve never seen one of these either. Had no idea Mongoose had done a road bike. As the others have said, even knowing nothing about them, it looks like a good quality frame and well fabricated.

It might not be enamel, it might well be cellulose. Try cellulose thinners first as acetone might attack the original paint. Cotton bud is good for getting into the corners 👍

Hopefully someone will be able to help with the number on the dropout. 72 on the head tube is the headtube angle 72° 👍 Personally, I wouldn’t strip this frame. The original paint looks perfectly serviceable and there’s nothing wrong with a few scabs. In fact, the paint on that is better than on...

I went up to a presentation at the Science Museum last night. Got the train up there and rode across, taking in a bit of Westminster Bridge, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament and the utter madness that the cycle lanes there are. Decided to ride home but my road knowledge through the west end is so...

So those alloy Meca Dural frames are not bonded or welded, they have expanders in the ends of the tubes like a quill stem to make them friction fit. Access to the expanders is through holes in the tubes and by taking the head badge off. Completely crackers...

I guess my RH frame would have originally looked like that chrome one a few posts up ^^^

SL6 2YT is probably the old owner’s postcode. Tithe Close in Maidenhead, according to Google Maps 👍

WTF! How has 26 years happened? I was about to mention the Seinfeld bike @mynchiboy - for some reason I thought it was a road bike though!

I’m not a Pat Hanlon expert, but the lack of brazed-on shifter bosses and the cable routing over the bottom bracket is consistent with a frame of that age (i.e. early 70s).