Hello,
Great looking site, which I just found this whilst "Googling" pictures of Muddyfox frames as I am trying to identify which model mine was when it left the factory. Are there any MF experts out there that could maybe help?
I bought the bike from an old work colleague in 1999(ish) who had bought it from a police auction as a stolen/recovered bike. Unfortunately he repainted the frame bright orange and changed the groupset to mainly 96/97 Shimano STX-RC so nothing remains to identify the original MF model.
He told me when I bought it that it was a MF frame and from looking at the pictures on the web it is most definitely a 91 frame as the seat stay joins the seat tube above the top tube (so 91 onwards) but the rear brake cable mount is shorter than shown on most 92 frames. I therefore think I have a 91 Courier Mega, Seeker Mega or Sorcerer Mega but as far as I can tell, the frames are identical (other than colour) with different groupsets.
I can read all but one character of the frame number (which is B10186H ?XXX) but not sure if that helps.
The bike is now fairly tired but since I have a blast cabinet and compressor I plan to repaint/restore the bike, so wanted to see if I could trace the original model, then find the paint code/stickers and search ebay for the correct 91 groupset. I would of course like it to be a Sorcerer as that had the best groupset, but I have no idea how to spray that colour scheme :?
If I cannot identify the frame model, then the alternative will be paint it silver and complete the 97 STX-RC groupset, but that seems a shame.
Any help would be most appreciated and pictures of any specific areas can be taken.
Cheers n beers
Si