the DEAN Colonel of my friend Andrea

[adri.75]

the serial number is SSD18167 MADE IN USA

 

[Double-E F]

Thanks; mine starts with 'D' (D2110 wonder what 'SS' means!

 

[adri.75]

Thanks; mine starts with 'D' (D2110 wonder what 'SS' means!

I don't know, I try to ask Andrea

 

[adri.75]

also Andrea is not sure of the meaning of the SS, he wrote to DEAN a few years ago for the confirmation of the production year and model because also the cable passages and rear dropouts are different to other bikes he had seen (they had the letter P) , other differences were the height of the seat tube C / F

 

[WimVDD]

Wild guess: SS stands for Sandvik Sweden as that was where they got the titanium for the early bikes?

 

[Double-E F]

Plausible..
But where did DEAN source the titanium for mine then..?

BTW: what's special about the dropouts on your friend's bike?

 

[WimVDD]

Plausible..
But where did DEAN source the titanium for mine then..?

yours definitely Sandvik as it arrived at my place in a big Sandvik cartboard box. ;-) And some of the early frames (I know because each and every Dean frame that was sold in the BeNeLux between 1994 and 1997 passed through my hands - I worked as a salesman for the importer ) had a big "Sandvik" decal on the stays.

 

[Double-E F]

Clear, but there's no SS in the s/n on mine.

 

[adri.75]

BTW: what's special about the dropouts on your friend's bike?

they are not special but different from others, more like the first kona hey hey

also my friend says that SS wants to frame produced by Sandvik.

 

[yanee71]

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Nice

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