Alpinestars Al mega XT 1990

[GoldenEraMTB]

Does this apply to the early Cannondales as well?

not as a rule, no.

ok, cool; I own a couple of them, and they seem fairly durable to me. Then again, I don't ride them; they belong to my wife. She about 113 lbs, and doesn't jump them or anything

"Computer Simulations"?!? You give early mountain bikes and their manufacturers too much credit! :shock:

Think back to the late 80's and early 90's and what computers were available. They would probably still be inputing the info today

Well, TRON was made in 1982... can't imagine they started on the CGI back in 1976 to have it done in 1982 ;-)

But seriously, wasn't it required by law back then? I mean, it wouldn't have been like testing is nowadays but you could design with a computer back then, you also should've been able to calculate the stress on various joints, welds and wall-thicknessesesessseses???

Or was flying a Boeing back then also like Russion roulette? And if I see al the ads in my old MBAs telling me how absolutely thoroughly everything has been tested and calculated to exceed airspace specs....

Ah well, don't even know what point I was trying to make. You guys got me confused again :?

Well, all the lawsuits against the MTB companies had yet to happen at that point, and I don't think many small companies spent much money addressing those issues.

Also, Boeing, I belive had a slightly larger budget with which to develope software/hardware to test such things...don't think the MTB world benefited from the trickle down just yet.

Now a few years later, the larger companies started making serious profits, and were able to pay engineers, develope software programs.

 

[Defiant]

okay,..told the seller that i wouldn't do it becuase it isn't the elevated chainstay,..but now he tells me it is (i never asked him before BTW)
he tells me it is has a black fork,..and blue decals,..

 

[sinnett177]

okay,..told the seller that i wouldn't do it becuase it isn't the elevated chainstay,..but now he tells me it is (i never asked him before BTW)
he tells me it is has a black fork,..and blue decals,..

Sounds odd the 1991 is the one pictured (previously) and the 1992 is all black with multicoloured decals (shown below).

 

[Defiant]

okay,..told the seller that i wouldn't do it becuase it isn't the elevated chainstay,..but now he tells me it is (i never asked him before BTW)
he tells me it is has a black fork,..and blue decals,..

Sounds odd the 1991 is the one pictured (previously) and the 1992 is all black with multicoloured decals (shown below).

yes,..he just indentified this picture as the bike it is,..

is this any good? (better then the once previously mentioned)

it has the original XT group in a nice condition,...

 

[GoldenEraMTB]

a 92 almega incomplete bike just sold on ebay for $27 (USD). It looked cool, and at that price was just a bit tempting...but I kept my distance.

 

[sinnett177]

okay,..told the seller that i wouldn't do it becuase it isn't the elevated chainstay,..but now he tells me it is (i never asked him before BTW)
he tells me it is has a black fork,..and blue decals,..

Sounds odd the 1991 is the one pictured (previously) and the 1992 is all black with multicoloured decals (shown below).

yes,..he just indentified this picture as the bike it is,..

is this any good? (better then the once previously mentioned)

it has the original XT group in a nice condition,...

The flying welshman is the man to ask i'd say. In his earlier post he seemed to suggest that post 1992 al-mega's should be fine and if anyone knew he'd be the man. I have however seen a few 1992's with cracks between the estay and the BB on ebay.

You may need to take an educated guess on this one. Check to see how much wear it's had, original tyres, rings, BB's etc should be a good sign. I have quite a few pics of original al-mega XT's if you need them.

 

[sinnett177]

Just a thought with you mentioning the blue decals, it could be a 1993 al-mega E735 (which superceded the al-mega XT). The giveaway is a straight seatpost.

 

[Defiant]

no ,..it's the back 1992 one,..

i do not know yet what to do,..

 

[Elev12k]

I would say it is the same frame as the 1991. For 1993 the AlMega was redesigned and it got Easton tubing.

 

[sinnett177]

The 1992 had easton also.