Muddy Fox Prestige 1988 the £5k one.

[Synthiaks]

all this does is re-enforce the idea that yours is the actual holey grail limited edition, the one that was alway mentioned but never seen

Seems plausible & of course that would be amazing, shame they changed the decals if thats the case as now its more of a mystery!

Must say the gilding and crappy chrome smack of something knocked up to put on a show stand, not for serious riding.

 

[legrandefromage]

'few' as in just yours, with the rollercams and the specific frame, even coming from The Fens, I can count on the fingers of one foot that there may only ever have been the one, maybe 5 in total that ever left a shop.

the frame builders would been knocking out bikes for other brand names so they may have tweaked an existing model to create the £5000 catalogue bike

 

[legrandefromage]

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1988-muddyfox-prestige-the-5k-one-found.300557/

 

[legrandefromage]

if rumour, legend, folk tales are to be believed, yours is the display bike with the later decals applied for promotion purposes

 

[drcarlos]

'few' as in just yours, with the rollercams and the specific frame, even coming from The Fens, I can count on the fingers of one foot that there may only ever have been the one, maybe 5 in total that ever left a shop.

the frame builders would been knocking out bikes for other brand names so they may have tweaked an existing model to create the £5000 catalogue bike

As they were transitioning from Araya to a Taiwanese builder in 1989 it's likely that a catalogue ltd edition bike would have been an early pre-prod bike and could have used an Araya frame rather than the new Taiwanese built ones.
I do agree though that the bike being discussed here is the 1988 Prestige bike. Probably a promo bike from a show and sold off afterwards. A nice piece of history and a bit of a missing link now in the fold so to speak.

 

[legrandefromage]

I would suggest changing the thread title a bit to include the word 'gold', you will get more hits and information

 

[Synthiaks]

I would suggest changing the thread title a bit to include the word 'gold', you will get more hits and information

Yep, good idea and done.

 

[legrandefromage]

'Muddy Fox Prestige - Its the Gold one!'

 

[legrandefromage]

some more inspiration for you

https://steel-vintage.com/colnago-super-oro-24k-gold-220319-01-06




https://www.bikeradar.com/news/gold...den-road-bike/?image=3&type=gallery&gallery=1

 

[Synthiaks]

some more inspiration for you

https://steel-vintage.com/colnago-super-oro-24k-gold-220319-01-06


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https://www.bikeradar.com/news/gold...den-road-bike/?image=3&type=gallery&gallery=1
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thats proper gold....