Aluminium E stay bargain for retrobiker North London

[XTSTIMAN]

Bit to far for me, bugger, but some lucky person will get some nice XTR bits, and maybe a nice frame

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[gtturbo]

Cheers for the heads up. Just messaged the seller.

 

[trailstar82]

Oooh, do I spy some m900 xtr?

 

[mtbdave]

It’s full m900 I think

 

[gtturbo]

Wheels are not XTR. But the seller has been in touch and hopefully collecting tomorrow.

 

[XTSTIMAN]

Pictures please of this

 

[slackboy]

Bargain of the year. And it's only February

 

[mtbdave]

Wheels are not XTR. But the seller has been in touch and hopefully collecting tomorrow.

Yes difficult too see hubs etc but the rest looks too be there mostly

 

[KermitGKona88]

The fabled Diamondback Alien... Or is it a Zaskar?

 

[incorrigible]

The fabled Diamondback Alien... Or is it a Zaskar?

IMHO, and in all seriousness (something of which I seem to have in short supply lately ), this bike, as KermitGKona88 has alluded to, is one of the all-aluminum Nishiki Aliens from 1992 – 1994 that has been stripped and perhaps even polished at some point before having DB decals affixed to it.

That said, all of those 7005-series aluminum Nishiki mountain bikes from 1990-199?, to include Alien ACXs and ending with the early Full Suspension models (FS Comp, FS-2, FS-3) have a history of cracking (see pic below), so be forewarned: Buyer Beware, or, as they say, “Caveat Emptor”.
…or is that “Carpe Diem”?
“Vidi, Veni, Vici”?
“Ad Hoc, Ad Loc, and Quid Pro Quo”?
“E Pluribus Unum”?
I don't speak Eskimo, but I think it’s one of those.

Cracks under the saddle follow the weld lines, whereas cracks in the headtube are vertical hairline cracks, either from the top down or from the bottom up. Run a fingernail around the top or bottom of the headtube next to the bearing races to find cracks.