Silverfish
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I LOVE building ARC’s.
Picked this one up a few months back. Was collecting another bike and asked the guy if he had any other retro bits kicking about. Turns out he had an ARC, some Ringle bits and some wheels. Always worth checking and one of the reasons I generally prefer to collect rather than get stuff posted.
It’s super clean - remarkably so. But it’s a 92 and inevitably it’s cracked. Not badly though so I’m pretty sure either FTW or Dan can work their magic on this and it only needs a repair rather than a a replacement HT. ST is absolutely fine. Actually bought this ARC because I knew someone who was looking for one and I figured this would have been perfect for them, but the timing wasn’t right for them so I decided to keep it, do another ARC build, rescue it myself and avoid 3DV.
It’s quite an early ARC - I need to dig the serial number out. Was on display in Bromley Bike for a long time in 92 - then bought early 93. The guy also had a FRO. He said the frame is exactly as he bought it so it looks like Yeti/Bromley were selling some custom painted ARC’s back then - it’s got the painters name on there so will update when I get it back.
This is how I received it.
Picked this one up a few months back. Was collecting another bike and asked the guy if he had any other retro bits kicking about. Turns out he had an ARC, some Ringle bits and some wheels. Always worth checking and one of the reasons I generally prefer to collect rather than get stuff posted.
It’s super clean - remarkably so. But it’s a 92 and inevitably it’s cracked. Not badly though so I’m pretty sure either FTW or Dan can work their magic on this and it only needs a repair rather than a a replacement HT. ST is absolutely fine. Actually bought this ARC because I knew someone who was looking for one and I figured this would have been perfect for them, but the timing wasn’t right for them so I decided to keep it, do another ARC build, rescue it myself and avoid 3DV.
It’s quite an early ARC - I need to dig the serial number out. Was on display in Bromley Bike for a long time in 92 - then bought early 93. The guy also had a FRO. He said the frame is exactly as he bought it so it looks like Yeti/Bromley were selling some custom painted ARC’s back then - it’s got the painters name on there so will update when I get it back.
This is how I received it.
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