Help identify the year of this Stratos?

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Hi, hoping the experts can help...I've never seen this font/graphic used for "Stratos" before and had a tough time in google image search looking for a match as well. I'm kind of hoping it is a '93? And hand-built in Richmond BC? Thanks in advance.







 
Font indeed is unusual. Maybe they were applied later? What's the serial number? You can find it on the right dropout most probably. My '92 Stratos contains the year and month. Those cable rivets are definitely different from the ones used on the '92 model.
 
It's got the fastback stays right (I saw it one of the FB user groups), so it's 1993 or 1994. Odd decal, yes, but it's just decal. They might have made a short run of them? I think the Japanese frames had a 'K' in the serial number, or am I confusing that with something else? Where's IShaw?
 
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That's 1993 text style, all had a bit fancy text that year.
Fast back and welded on the slight side cable guides too.

But it would be light blue forks and normally yellow text.

They're not in the 1994 catalogue iirc.
 
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I doubt they suddenly made these in house as they're the bargain basement Alu frames.

The thin air and vertex are the more expensive and use a slightly different design. I think four 1994 it was replaced with the Vapor?
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Thanks everyone. SN is YA29369. Yes, I thought I had seen all the decals/fonts/graphics as well.

92 to 94, Rocky was experimenting and doing a transition to include alum frames being done in-house. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was welded up in Canada as at the time, they didn't put the "hand built by..." decal on frames that weren't hand-built in Canada.
 
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Built-in the year 1992. YA, like the style of drop out being the same as the other Stratos before, is the farmed out one.
 
92? The 92 came with orange tange forks and the decal/graphics/colour is something I'm familiar with.
 

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