Popped round to see a mate today and when i was there he told me he had lots of bike parts in his shed and garage. He'd picked alot of them up from a guy who did bike repairs after he had decided to shut his business down, but the rest came from the local tip where they are salvaged and saved for him by a guy that works there....
So i took a look through the shed....nowt of interest....
But just as i thought their wouldn't be anything else worth looking at my mate says "oh yeah, take a look at the bike in the garage....i was told it was titanium when i bought it".... (PS. my mate freely admits that he doesn't know alot about old bikes but he makes a bit of cash selling skip finds on eBay and he didn't know alot about this bike, other than what he has been told by the seller...whoever he/she is...).
So we head into the garage which was full to the top with all sorts of stuff. At the back was the bike in question.... It was too dark to see in the garage so i suggested we get it into daylight to take a closer look.
Now many of the parts are very rusty on this thing, but the frame is pretty much fine....and it looks Ti. Not sure what it is though. The headset looks like XTR M900 and some of the group is M737 so i'm thinking 92/93. The forks are interesting too, but i'm not sure what they are.....bit like a manitou crown and dropouts... :? Got a nice GT hub on the front wheel.... basically this thing looks like a mish-mash of parts at the mo' :roll:
My mate tells me a guy from a local bike shop came to look at his stuff and tried to get him to part with this bike, but as my mate wasn't impressed that the guy told him it was only chrome and not worth much he didn't sell it to him.... and the best thing is he was quite happy to let me have it for nowt....
Anyhoo.....it's now at home and Si (DrS) is on his way round to give me his diagnosis if he can......lets hope it doesn't turn out to be trash.....I've done the magnet test and it's certainly not Steel..... Their is no surface rust for an old bike too and the welds look v like titanium welds to me.....also need to check to see if the headset is 1" 1/4 as it looks pretty chunky...
I'm just damn curious.......i'll post some pics v soon to see if anyone can help me further.....
Drew
So i took a look through the shed....nowt of interest....
But just as i thought their wouldn't be anything else worth looking at my mate says "oh yeah, take a look at the bike in the garage....i was told it was titanium when i bought it".... (PS. my mate freely admits that he doesn't know alot about old bikes but he makes a bit of cash selling skip finds on eBay and he didn't know alot about this bike, other than what he has been told by the seller...whoever he/she is...).
So we head into the garage which was full to the top with all sorts of stuff. At the back was the bike in question.... It was too dark to see in the garage so i suggested we get it into daylight to take a closer look.
Now many of the parts are very rusty on this thing, but the frame is pretty much fine....and it looks Ti. Not sure what it is though. The headset looks like XTR M900 and some of the group is M737 so i'm thinking 92/93. The forks are interesting too, but i'm not sure what they are.....bit like a manitou crown and dropouts... :? Got a nice GT hub on the front wheel.... basically this thing looks like a mish-mash of parts at the mo' :roll:
My mate tells me a guy from a local bike shop came to look at his stuff and tried to get him to part with this bike, but as my mate wasn't impressed that the guy told him it was only chrome and not worth much he didn't sell it to him.... and the best thing is he was quite happy to let me have it for nowt....
Anyhoo.....it's now at home and Si (DrS) is on his way round to give me his diagnosis if he can......lets hope it doesn't turn out to be trash.....I've done the magnet test and it's certainly not Steel..... Their is no surface rust for an old bike too and the welds look v like titanium welds to me.....also need to check to see if the headset is 1" 1/4 as it looks pretty chunky...
I'm just damn curious.......i'll post some pics v soon to see if anyone can help me further.....
Drew
