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It does as it goes, the frames a bit of a lighter grey and gloss though, the whole groupset is mountain LX (don't know if I mentioned that 
) am I getting it wrong on the shimano food chain? was mountain LX a low spec?
Plus it's pretty light, I remember my palisades weighing 1 metric ton!
Staf.
) am I getting it wrong on the shimano food chain? was mountain LX a low spec?Plus it's pretty light, I remember my palisades weighing 1 metric ton!
Staf.
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excuse my explanation as one has started on the vino, its a sort of grey matt finish that was meant to be most hardwearing by my understanding, it feels sort of erm, like its got a very fine sort of stoney stuff in it, like very fine wetndry type stuff, thats my understanding
i think the whole thing about it was it was and pretty much is bombproff i.e a very hard wearing finsih,
though as you say your finish is glossy i may well be very wrong,
erm
The Zolatone Form finishes use flecks of sparkling, light reflective materials to create a shimmer that moves light throughout the room
oh i dont know really
i think the whole thing about it was it was and pretty much is bombproff i.e a very hard wearing finsih,
though as you say your finish is glossy i may well be very wrong,
erm
The Zolatone Form finishes use flecks of sparkling, light reflective materials to create a shimmer that moves light throughout the room
oh i dont know really
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and with my limited knowlegde ,lx is up the food chain, did they even have xtr in those days, think it was DX, LX and XT, again , and some bits they used to snaffle from road bikes,
dont know which order things came in though
dont know which order things came in though
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99% sure it's a 1989, and 100% sure it's a Palisades. Same colour as the '90 but with normal paint for the frame instead of zolatone.
I had a 1989 Saracen Tufftrax that had full Mountain LX (except for the deore thumbies ). Tufftrax and Palisades were around the same price point.
I had a 1989 Saracen Tufftrax that had full Mountain LX (except for the deore thumbies
). Tufftrax and Palisades were around the same price point.
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That would make everything sort of make sense. But battleship grey is surely only a selling point if it has the zolatone properties
