Carrera Frame Butted or not?

[A.D.R]

I've owned My Krakatoa since 1993 when I bought it second hand, it was my first proper Mountain Bike, the previous being a tank of a Raleigh Marauder in electric blue, which is now my dads and in remarkably good conditon.

For the past couple of years the Krakatoa has sat in the shed occasionally getting dusted off to ride to work when the newer bike needs a chain replaced (which is quite often with a 9 speed I've found, broken 2 or 3).

Anyway the Carrera has a Tange sticker saying Tange double butted tubing or words to that effect (cant recall it exactly), I'm wondering if the whole frame is double butted, just the main tubes or just the seat-tube which definitely is as I can see the external butting at the top of it.

Its the Krakatoa flex model which originally came with the bullhorn handlebars and girvin flexstem copy

Please excuse the RST380 forks kalloy stem, front V brakes (with travel agent) and riser bar I fitted in misguided youthful exuberance aside from that it's pretty much original Bullhorn bars had to be scrapped due to them bending but i still have the Tange Hi-ten forks (I'm assuming their not Cromo) and flex stem.

Essentially I'm wondering if the frames worth making a project bike and upgrading, powder coating, etc.

Thanks

Andy

 

[xxnick1975]

welcome to the site

from a justification/financial view i dont think this bike is ever going to worth too much investment

but its your first proper bike, so important to you

personally i would just keep it as original as possible without being silly and enjoy the memories

 

[A.D.R]

If it makes a difference the Tange decal says "Tange MTB Double Butted OS tubing", I was considering powder coating and making it singlespeed, and finding a set of cromo forks for it P2,s or similar