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a bit like Modolo and my guess especially the first one was rather designed with negativ angle as a road racing stem, like the two from Modolo in the pic above.

Hi, Griffen was a Texas-based bike brand https://griffenbicycles.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/what-really-happened-to-griffen-bicycles/ https://griffenbicycles.wordpress.com/ Not sure about the frame quality and if Griffen was a sexy brand or not, but the parts like the Ringle stem, AMP fork...

Nice catalog, I think this is still missing in the new Archive https://www.retrobike.co.uk/archive/categories/ridgeback.437/ At this page unfortunately all pictures do have the bothering watermark. @retrobikeguy can you please upload the pics once more or create a 1989-90 catalog for the...

you may want to ask your budy also for pictures showing the rear end of the frame with the drop-outs. It would be also interesting to know if the tube for the bottom bracket is 68 or 70mm wide.

Wow, what a beauty 😍 (just V-brakes and LX group doesn't fit well). Just would like to add a snippet of the 1994 brochure

not sure if this is a legit Pinarello Pinarello Alumnium MTBs had been rather rare and I do only know the Rombo made with Oria Tubing (with typical Oria Alu drop outs) and a ovalized or changing diameter top tube (at least the diameter towards the seat tube seem to shrink) The frame of the...

hi, interesting topic, I'm a big thumb shifter fan, but also like to run at least the bikes I build to use them more regularly meanwhile without a front mech. but ideally with bit wider cassette, 1-9 or 1-10 with 11-36 bandwidth for instance. For that I have tried a few options. Not my pic...

the Arrival was yellow but Aluminum, but in general, the bike itself looks indeed heavily like a Diamond Back CroMo Bike from Mid to End of 80. I don't have a better pic, but the Ascent EX from 1987 seems to be the right one, correct? Just not with that additional tube, I have never seen...

not my fault and not done by me although it's a Univega Boralyn Frame, known for something like this (not my picture) the damage above was happening according to the former owner by accident, when the bike crashed in a wooden area and was smashed again a massive root of an fallen tree. I've...

the exact address is on the Sundance Ad posted the page before. To me this looks like a private house, maybe the place where Mr. Stanner lived or still lives. Just adding to the theory that there Sundance was just a brand for bikes and dealers got those directly shipped by a distributor with a...

ah, very nice. Sundance was based in Murnau, Gally (a company building the Titanal full supspension bikes for Wheeler, Audi, themselves, etc.) in Oberrau all very close. Regina Stiefel and her sister grow up in Garmisch too, and there had been even some of the first even internaltional...

I had some Sundance bikes already, in earlier years they had quite a nice portfolio. Actually, to me those seem to be similar Asian manufactured as others, but they had been very proud about being based in Europe. The founder and boss, maybe it was just a one-man show distributor, was also...

Hi, actually I think you've found quite a nice frame. This "Transalp" was presented from Heavy Tools next to a high end steel frame called Joe P. early this century. Pic from 2003 brochure The Joe P. was Dedaccia and even in 19" or 20" size just 1600grams light, yours is Reynolds 631 (BTW...

yeah, good comment, you're right, if you want to use an old Titanal frame, it's wise to not buy a bike which was stored for longer outside in rain, or for the last decade in a damp basement. Corrosion can kill it also from the inside out, also after being 20years failure free.

hi, I think it was mentioned somewhere here already, this should be a Titanal Frame. The tubes itself came from a aluminum company from Austria There had been 3 different variants of the hardtail frame, or two make makeovers, but those identical frames had been sold by a number of brands...

nice pictures 🙂

nice and rare find. Some later Hercules "Alabamha", Hardtails with Sachs Disc show up quite often, this one rather not... Yours should be roughly 1994-95. The Sachs Power disc brake was introduced in 94, but most users not get too much exited, because braking power wasn't very good. It's not...

(just a pity that Syncros stopped at one point of time to engrave the logo)

Yes, ITA is 70mm, while BSA/ISO 68 or later 73mm. Also the size of the shell is different, BSA bottom brackets using a 1.375” (34.92mm) diameter and ITA has a 36mm diameter shell. With that, it get's very likely that it should be an Italian Frame.

and sure, the 8900 is by far the whole grail of a Wheeler bike! It was designed or even build by Kent Eriksen, that's also mentioned of the piece of the sticker at your bike above the BB. Mike Kluge was using this for selected races. Maybe you have bought back in time a frame set only, because...