Unknown Rocky Mountain

[aguycalled80]

I imagine it's sold already, but what is it?

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-mountain-bike/ve ... nFlag=true



The seller says it's steel, but you can't see the model name. The parts look like DX, and the '91 Equipe had all three cables on the left side of the top tube. Plus the tubing type matches - never seen one in that colour though, so maybe it was redone at some point.

 

[FluffyChicken]

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1992 Team Compe.

Wishbone so its basically 90 to 92
The rear canti hanger like that was on the Team Compe.

That and we've just been talking about it ;-)

 

[aguycalled80]

Discussing it on the board here?

I wondered if it wasn't a Team Comp, but I figured they would have had better parts.

 

[FluffyChicken]

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About the team compe. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=299472

 

[aguycalled80]

Nice - I love the old thread there where the guy maintained that the Team Comp didn't exist.

Definitely a Team Comp - the colours and decals match. Funny though that it has that Tange fork instead of the Scott.

I've missed all kinds of Canadian action on here lately!

 

[FluffyChicken]

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The 1st thread was a DX setup. The older thread, not read it again but could have been me ir not saying it didn't exist... It didn't, not in the UK catalogues anyway and very few Rockies where here to be honest so probably not in the street.
Anyway the EU (German really) ones seem to be XC Comp kit on them.

 

[RockiMtn]

so where would this model fall in the RM line-up? below the Blizzard, so around the Equipe & Hammer models?

 

[Mr.Toad]

so where would this model fall in the RM line-up? below the Blizzard, so around the Equipe & Hammer models?

I would like to know this as well.

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Blizzard is kind of on it's own as Enduro/plod/comfort.

It seems to me to sit just a fraction under the Altitude. It is a race frame and as far as I know raced on. It has the same tubing spec as the Altitude putting it above all the others including the Blizzard. I also read the 4 digit stamp means (possibly) it was a team rider allocated frame.
Just the component group set seems to have been a few drops lower, possibly to get rid of them at a cheaper price and not hit sales of the other bikes?

I'm sure DeeEight has a lot of this background or it came from him. Any of you over there can tap up your RM contacts to get some info?

 

[DeeEight]

Team Comps were a model they supplied to the grassroots sponsored riders, the ones not deep pocketed enough to afford altitudes (most elites in canada/usa actually PAID for their kit back then, albeit at pro-deal rates, even national champions usually had to pay out of pocket if they wanted to keep their team bikes at the end of a season). They were only in the production lineup for the 1992 model year, came in two colors (dark forest green or that liquid mercury), with Suntour XC Comp Microdrive and a Scott Unishocks that was black lowers with matching green decals. The tubeset is Tange Ultimate Ultralight and the 21.5" liquid mercury frame I owned had a sub 4-pound weight. Oddly the 20" green one's frame I also owned weighed more than 4 pounds.

They didn't exist outside Canada/USA but then, the Glacier didn't exist outside the european distribution channels either (it was essentially a blizzard with a different name).