vtwinvince
Senior Retro Guru
I recently picked up a 1991-92 Rocky Mountain Titanium from a local auction. I'm wondering if it was built by Litespeed or Sandvik.
Rocky Mountain Titanium
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Graham_hkr
Specialized Fan
Put some pictures up matey..
vtwinvince
Senior Retro Guru
Re:
Will get some images up, right now mine are too big. Anyway, the serial number, 4507, is located on the derailleur hangar.
Will get some images up, right now mine are too big. Anyway, the serial number, 4507, is located on the derailleur hangar.
vtwinvince
Senior Retro Guru
Working on it. I got an opinion from a former Rocky Mountain employee that possibly DeKerf built the frame.
Hi everybody,
1.) Sandvik was one of the biggest titanium tube/Hardware producing companies in the early 90's in the US and due to their expertise they welded for dfferent bike companies-
Mc Mahon, Diamond Back, some early Deans and others....
I found out by owning several different ti frames and they all had the exact same rear dropouts.....
it was then confirmed to me by a former Sandvik employee-
2.) Wheter your bike was welded by Sandvik is not 100% certain as with higher expertise themselves some bike companies switched to "in house" welding
3.) With the exception of the "Passoni" bikes from Italy I think that no other ti bike Company ever used 100% titanium tubes for their bikes-
- there were the classic 3-2.5 ti tubes = 94.5 % titanium 3% alu 2.5% Vanadium example used by Merlin for regular tubes while using 6-4 which was more stable for their
drop Outs
(6 - 4 = 90% ti / 6% alu / 4% Vanadium)
4.) Litespeed mostly used 6-4 alltogether first and foremost for their flagship bike models such as the OCOEE FS.....etc....
If you post a pic of the drop Outs of your Frame it should be fairly easy to determine which Company manufactured it!
Cheers,
1.) Sandvik was one of the biggest titanium tube/Hardware producing companies in the early 90's in the US and due to their expertise they welded for dfferent bike companies-
Mc Mahon, Diamond Back, some early Deans and others....
I found out by owning several different ti frames and they all had the exact same rear dropouts.....
it was then confirmed to me by a former Sandvik employee-
2.) Wheter your bike was welded by Sandvik is not 100% certain as with higher expertise themselves some bike companies switched to "in house" welding
3.) With the exception of the "Passoni" bikes from Italy I think that no other ti bike Company ever used 100% titanium tubes for their bikes-
- there were the classic 3-2.5 ti tubes = 94.5 % titanium 3% alu 2.5% Vanadium example used by Merlin for regular tubes while using 6-4 which was more stable for their
drop Outs
(6 - 4 = 90% ti / 6% alu / 4% Vanadium)
4.) Litespeed mostly used 6-4 alltogether first and foremost for their flagship bike models such as the OCOEE FS.....etc....
If you post a pic of the drop Outs of your Frame it should be fairly easy to determine which Company manufactured it!
Cheers,
OldSkoolReTool'd
Brodie Fan
I also just picked up a Rocky Mountain Titanium frame ( Litespeed made I believe ) . Would anyone know what year serial number 26XX might be ? and possibly what color decals it may have come with originally ? I think someone mentioned 3XXX was 1990. What year were these first made ?
