Can anyone identify this frame?

[velomaniac]

My first response was Iron Horse as well but must admit I'd only seen an aluminium one like the above not the OP's steed, interesting

 

[KermitGKona88]

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/sator-hyster.412674/post-3227599

 

[hossboss]

No, not an Iron Horse, but she's a horse made of iron (well, probably cromoly).

I recieved a response from Modolo, after I emailed them to see if the Modolo sticker was a clue;

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Hello,

For what I remember, there was only a brief time when there was a collaboration with a designer that made a frame called Titanal, that was a Titanium - Alluminium thing, and they were assembled in modolo Factory.
I found here an example : https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/hercules-titanal-xr1-27484

Best Regards

Max Modolo

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What a nice fella!

 

[joglo]

No, not an Iron Horse, but she's a horse made of iron (well, probably cromoly).

I recieved a response from Modolo, after I emailed them to see if the Modolo sticker was a clue;

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Hello,

For what I remember, there was only a brief time when there was a collaboration with a designer that made a frame called Titanal, that was a Titanium - Alluminium thing, and they were assembled in modolo Factory.
I found here an example : https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/hercules-titanal-xr1-27484

Best Regards

Max Modolo

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What a nice fella!

Hi,
Indeed, nice that a friendly Modolo employee was sending you feedback.
Just to me this doesn't seem to be a Titanal frame.
It wasn't possible to regularly weld Titanal. So the tubes had been rolled from shets and lugs have been used to connect the tubes.
Yours has definitely a cromo rear triangle if not the entire frame.
Please check if it's magnetic.

In trems of the frame design, to me this reminds a bit of an Ironhorse but also a bit a Sator Hyster, as mentioned already, or a Shannon Bonebreaker
https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/shannon-bonebreaker-aufbauthread-in-bildern.776332/

 

[neonsplatterfade]

company called ironhorse was doing something similar to that seattube region design here in the US, but that frame looks way older

 

[dirttorpedo]

Didn't Barracuda have that top tube / rear triangle configuration? The paint doesn't look right though - I recall them being primarily white with some 90's color decals. Is it a respray?

 

[hossboss]

Didn't Barracuda have that top tube / rear triangle configuration? The paint doesn't look right though - I recall them being primarily white with some 90's color decals. Is it a respray?

I didn’t think of Barracuda (I haven’t thought of that brand for 20 years!), and had a look but all their designs are pretty conventional. It DOES look as though this mystery frame has had a spray at some point. It’s possible that it used to be white??

Hi,
Indeed, nice that a friendly Modolo employee was sending you feedback.
Just to me this doesn't seem to be a Titanal frame.
It wasn't possible to regularly weld Titanal. So the tubes had been rolled from shets and lugs have been used to connect the tubes.
Yours has definitely a cromo rear triangle if not the entire frame.
Please check if it's magnetic.

In trems of the frame design, to me this reminds a bit of an Ironhorse but also a bit a Sator Hyster, as mentioned already, or a Shannon Bonebreaker
https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/shannon-bonebreaker-aufbauthread-in-bildern.776332/

Definitely not a Titanal. This mystery frame is all welded steel, and yes consists of ferrous material being magnetic.

 

[dirttorpedo]

company called ironhorse was doing something similar to that seattube region design here in the US, but that frame looks way older

Ironhorse! That's the brand I was thinking of - not Barracuda.

https://denver.craigslist.org/bik/d/aurora-iron-horse-mt100r-large-bike-195/7451204621.html

 

[hossboss]

So I’ve stripped the paint off this thing now, and lo and behold there’s a serial. It says;
BY JKF
1988
- 10 -

Could it be the French builder JKF (Jean-Francois Kaufmann)?

 

[grantoury]

@Guinessisgoodforyou have you seen this?