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Interesting that Leigh's bike is yet another variation of swingarm + pivot design!
The very last pre-5th frames got the updated head tube. Pretty much everyone I knew racing them back then had a bit of coke can pressed in with lower cup to take up the gap. I can't remember when ISCG arrived exactly but it was sometime around '01 IIRC. I ordered a CK Steelset for my '02 frame not realising they'd beefed up the head tube and it took a lot of effort to get it in there, and it sure wasn't ever coming out. I ended up having it powder coated with the headset still in situ.Seems to be just on the mongoose versions, brian lopes had the same dropped chain stay on his too.
As for them evolving batch to batch, one of my mates friends had an almost identical 2001 to mine but his had the less beefed up headset and didn't have mountings for a chainguard
Looks like it'll be a stunning build! Love the Lobo too, it's amazing to see one of them that hasn't got bent linkage plates.So...alot of nice pictures here..But are we " getting somewhere".
There are so many conflicting looks/ statements/ opinions all over the place.Ive posted on facebook groups also..and it is all the same..
Is this now a case of : Serial number does not say anything about the production month and year? on these " earlier/first gen multilink M1"s?Cause that is my main question i have
Obviously i will wait for the reply from Intense themselves...But its cool to see all the info coming out of the woodworks.
Received my lovely Judy DHO fork yesterday also..so now it sits alongside my 1998 GT Lobo STS Dh