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I bought one of them:) The Exact Un, I think it’s probably 98/99. These were the ad pics. Fingers crossed it’s as good as I think. Anyone here buy the other one?

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Wow! That looks incredible! You’ve done an amazing job. So glad I drove to the auction house to pick it up! Kudos to you.

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No Problem! Fill your boots. Hope you can breathe some life in to it!

Congratulations @Retro_Roy ! That Toad is a thing of beauty 👌🇨🇦

Mine if anyone is interested. Asking £2k https://www.facebook.com/share/UCYCcyq964cWak5H/?mibextid=79PoIi

I don’t unfortunately, sold a while back.

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Love this:)

Thanks! I use a Shadow Stand, a triangular, thin piece of hard Perspex that supports the bike under the bottom bracket

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I think I found these images before in my search for build inspiration. Love your bike:)

I’ll have a go this month. Just finished putting together my 94 Dekerf. Build thread here; https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1994-dekerf.480141/ Markjohnson76 1994 Dekerf

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Anyway, yesterday I finally had a clear window to put it all together. I really wanted to use a threaded headset and quill stem so had to cut down a steerer I had. I did it quite poorly so it took a while to get the headset on. I’d had some red middleburn and Ringle skewers so knew I wanted to...

Then life got in the way a bit and I could only grab a little time here and there to clean the frame and test forks. The mag 21 seemed too short. I used to have some metallic ‘red wine’ colour marzocchi Z2 so I sourced another set and the colour was a really close match with the frame.

So it’s a 94 frame and painted in a 97ish colour. Wonder how that came about? Anyway it’s an early one and I was even more excited to build it up.

Chris Dekerf replied almost immediately! What a great bloke. Here’s what he had to say; Hello Mark. DEK242 Dekerf "mountain". It officially had no model name but was often called a 'Mountain'. So your frame would have been repainted at some point and given an incorrect model decal. Completed...

It’s an 18” so my perfect size. I wasn’t sure what year but with the cable stops for cantis I guessed pre 96. The frame has a few marks but it’s solid and straight. The parts were useable but I knew I’d like it to be a period correct ish XTR/syncros build. I’d not known a huge amount about...