Carrera Quatro Comp - Mostly XT components £50

[ljamesb]

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So...... The Clockwork has a new groupset!

Anyone know if the rear wheel is 130mm spacing and anyone want a cheap Reynolds frame? :mrgreen:

ha ha! Congratulations .

Let me know if don't plan to keep the thumbies .

 

[xxnick1975]

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So...... The Clockwork has a new groupset!

Anyone know if the rear wheel is 130mm spacing and anyone want a cheap Reynolds frame? :mrgreen:

Glad to hear it, waste of xt on that frame even if the paint is cool

 

[legrandefromage]

I dont get it - if it had any other name on it you'd all be shitting yourselves over it.

Its probably built by Saracen or Pacific so will most likely have Spinner forks and will be a hell of a lot better than some of the chuff that gets touted out as 'quality'

* but the above doesnt and will never count for Al Carter.

Never

Bloody

Ever.

 

[brocklanders023]

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Don't disagree lgf, I just don't need or want a half decent Carrera frame but I do want the XT stuff!

 

[Antstark]

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89 vintage xt ...getting harder to find by the day.

 

[brocklanders023]

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89 vintage xt ...getting harder to find by the day.

Perfect for the 89 Clockwork then. Should be collecting tomorrow so we'll see what the condition is like.

 

[xxnick1975]

I dont get it - if it had any other name on it you'd all be shitting yourselves over it.

Its probably built by Saracen or Pacific so will most likely have Spinner forks and will be a hell of a lot better than some of the chuff that gets touted out as 'quality'

* but the above doesnt and will never count for Al Carter.

Never

Bloody

Ever.

My view is purely based on personal experience. I saved up all my birthday money, paper round pay etc and bought a carrera waikalou.

It was the same era as this, purple splatter and sun tour x1

My brother had a hard rock sport and my dad a courier comp

My bike was so inferior to those if was not funny. I suspect my current desire to keep acquiring quality mtbs is because of the trauma that bike left!

Fair enough this is the top of the range effort, so might be different, but my opinion is that these were cut from the same cloth, a decent spec on paper with a group set better than their price point, Reynolds sticker on the frame (probably a few tubes not full frame set) so theoretically all good, but in reality absolute dog turd

Not sure about "made by X", presumably they all contracted out production to factories in Taiwan, and set their own spec and quality control.

Anyway to end the story, so bad was the carrera I left it at a church fete for them to sell on, the week I got a Marin Bolinas

 

[legrandefromage]

yeah but no but suntour x1 was shit - shirly williams told me so while i wos knobbin her behind the bike sheds

 

[Antstark]

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I think that's pretty conclusive

 

[xxnick1975]

Lgf's balls were massive, they were like THIS big....