Ernesto1991
Dirt Disciple
Beautiful!
Once A Hero":2wp14xuw said:Yetichaser":2wp14xuw said:Hi, congrats on the purchase.
Your bike belonged to my friend. We got the frames at the same time from Bromley Bike shop I believe it was 1993. Mine was the same colour although I had mine re-sprayed in white by Roberts around 2010.
Watch out for rust at bottom of seat tube as that caused rust on mine as there is no drainage hole.
I have a feeling that your frame is much earlier, possibly 1989ish. Mine is U162 (i think) which dates it around 1989. i vaguely remember a sticker on mine when it was orange and grey which said API resprays. I also vaguely recall that these frames had been used by the UK race team / Evolution Imports ie Bromley Bike shop from a conversation that I had with them at the time.
Anyway, enjoy it. I loved mine.
Thanks for the extra history
So are you saying that what mine has is effectively an early re-spray to suit a team livery? I wonder what the original colour was in that case...not that it will be getting re-sprayed as aside from a little sun fading on the orange and the odd age related scratch, the paint is good.
I’m in two minds about removing some on the after market decals in case there is an obvious patch of faded colour - particularly the Manitou sticker on the top tube.
As to age, is there actually a way to date the frames from the number - as I had read that the numbers were essentially random? Mine reads U1072...
Yours looks great, can I assume from ‘loved’ that you no longer have it?
player":p8whmz5e said:Yep those dates sound about right to me.
In 1990 the UK Yeti team was called Yeti/Cycleland (Cycleland before they turned into Evolution Imports/Bromley Bike) and they were using Fro and Ultimate frames pimped with all swag Cycleland imported back then and always remember seeing them around the UK race circuit, I think i was racing juniors back then with Mike Jackson.
Once A Hero":3rib83nk said:Wow - that’s some great history :shock: thank youplayer":3rib83nk said:Yep those dates sound about right to me.
In 1990 the UK Yeti team was called Yeti/Cycleland (Cycleland before they turned into Evolution Imports/Bromley Bike) and they were using Fro and Ultimate frames pimped with all swag Cycleland imported back then and always remember seeing them around the UK race circuit, I think i was racing juniors back then with Mike Jackson.
To me it seems quite feasible that mine and Yetichasers bikes could be the two in last picture, Yetichasers being the white one, and mine the black one - going by the sizes, which seem to match our respective bikes.
Perhaps I should try and track down the original owners?
Yetichaser":1xmnl8kd said:This thread is getting better and better.
Myself and Mike L rode for Addiscombe CC, a local very friendly and passionate club with a lot of prescence in the Shirley Hills races.