Mystery elevated chainstay

[ozone1]

I picked this up for pocket money a couple of weeks ago, looks to be a Starway Rock something, looks reasonable quality with mavic rims and deore DX I think, and perhaps early Rockshox?

From doing some googling I found that Starway made Bmx bikes but could find no info on any mountain bikes that made,

Anyone have any info?

 

[ishaw]

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Cant help with the frame, but forks aren't rock shox, unless they did rigid ones without me knowing

You might have some nice rigid forks, hard to tell from the pics though.

Nice score.

 

[xerxes]

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Forks look like Tange Switchblades: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tange ... p;bih=1096

 

[Skeelsie]

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Looks like Starway were a legit MTB/Cycle producer, Taiwan frames i'd imagine with good groupsets playing on the SkyWay brand.

Frame looks cool and the Switchblades lovely.


Another Stayway
https://forum.tontonvelo.com/viewtopic. ... 93&start=0

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Nice forks
M231 CD wheels
91/92 ish era

 

[legrandefromage]

They are Tange Switchblade style forks

heres another antipodean mystery that is or was similar

 

[ozone1]

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Thanks lads, I see both bontrager and syncros alsoade a similar fork, sorry the pics are crap as they are taken off the listing as the bike is at the other end of the country where a mate is picking it up for me, I'll get some better pics when it arrives

So does anyone else have a Starway?

 

[incorrigible]

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Always excited to find out about another as-yet unidentified e-stay!
Looking forward to more pics and info!

 

[24pouces]

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Starway was a french MTB brand which produced mountain bike in the early 90ies.
The bike you show was the elevated frame, the Mandrilla, built with Tange Prestige tubing and cool equiped with Suntour XC pro in 1990-91 and perhaps they changed the name for a Shimano XT/DX equipped bike in 92.
That bike was sold with a Tange Switchblade forks
The paint job was very fun, near first alpine stars design. But in 92, they changed for a full classic color design. That's why I think it's a 92-93 bike

 

[24pouces]

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(Pictures took in a french 1990 MTB magazine