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[Takingabreak]

The toptube gear boss is brazed on under the dawes greenyblue flecked paint.
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The double cable stop is exactly that, but matching the style of the rear triple, which is as per catalogue.

I was wondering if there was a standard gear lever mount under there or if someone had screwed it into the tube

I guess at some point you will strip it down and be able to see inside the bottom bracket shell or steerer to see if the paint is all original.

I really have never seen another Edge like it

 

[bikeworkshop]

I was wondering if there was a standard gear lever mount under there or if someone had screwed it into the tube

This was exactly my concern having just bought it from a photo - the app had been ripped off, and a boss crudely attached with a nut and bolt
Luckily not. It looks original.

As for a mod,:
It's slightly harder to think why you'd remove the triple cable stop, source another one to match (rather than modify the one you already have), then braze a gear boss on there...

But only slightly.

Of course when dawes still made bikes in , they might well have knocked up some pre- production models to see how the market or management took to them.

A toptube gear boss is not an original idea in 1993 -
As @Rod_Saetan pointed out earlier.

 

[Takingabreak]

Pre production model did cross my mind. You only have another 99 to find and you will complete the set

 

[Joe_Rides]

There was a special edition dawes mountain bike made from 501 and painted in a crazy green and purple spotted paint scheme with stx kit on it at some point in time that I don't think was ever in the catalogues. They had numbers in a similar position. Could you have a non catalogue limited edition bike there? Or even a team race bike?

EDIT - link to example of special edition numbering https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/stx-special-edition-cantis-£13-posted.204841/

There is a Dawes "Zig Zag" for sale at the moment which sounds like the bike you mean?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40546024...=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY



@bikeworkshop Looking forward to more 'Edge updates, and, randomly, I've visited that church at Hoarwithy a few years ago on my holidays - very cool.

 

[kingoffootball]

There is a Dawes "Zig Zag" for sale at the moment which sounds like the bike you mean?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40546024...=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

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@bikeworkshop Looking forward to more 'Edge updates, and, randomly, I've visited that church at Hoarwithy a few years ago on my holidays - very cool.

Not that one, it was actually called the Special Edition, with a green/purple paint scheme:

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1994-dawes-special-edition.398673/

That paint scheme was also used on a road bike, but I think I've onlt seen a catalogue shot of one.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Canti bolts are titanium, crank bolts are the correct xtr ones, front brake hanger is ritchey, zero bb
Frame weight 2.3kg, fork 895g

 

[Takingabreak]

Frame and fork weights are decent, what size is the frame?

 

[Twozaskars]

You can retire early off the back of this