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General => Tech Forum => Topic started by: kiwi on March 01, 2007, 06:12:36 pm

Title: Hi I am new Here!IronMan Five
Post by: kiwi on March 01, 2007, 06:12:36 pm
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hi, purchased a proflex x works frame on a whim, i dont ride mountain bikes but i like the look. now i need info. thanks
Title: Re: Hi I am new Here!IronMan Five
Post by: kiwi on March 01, 2007, 06:14:45 pm
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probably not best in this thread (kiwi can you move us?)

what info do you need? Which X works do you have XP-6, XP-8 or XP-X?

Title: Re: Hi I am new Here!IronMan Five
Post by: kiwi on March 01, 2007, 06:16:50 pm
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cant actually move but i can do the next best thing

Title: Re: Hi I am new Here!IronMan Five
Post by: orange on March 01, 2007, 06:28:05 pm
cheers! ;-)
Title: Re: Hi I am new Here!IronMan Five
Post by: kiwi on March 01, 2007, 08:15:13 pm
ironmanfive,we need some pics or something.The bike is likely a 95 or 96 maybe 97 vintage.We like how they look too  :o so you are preaching to the converted!
Welcome to the site.What speciffically do you want to know
Title: Re: Hi I am new Here!IronMan Five
Post by: Colin on March 01, 2007, 11:27:44 pm
Hi Ironmanfive!

I've got an XP-X here in the UK, (owned it since brand new), as you may know it's a late model 856 (1997) with hopefully all of the frame improvement "tweaks" that they identified on the 855/856 incarnations.
see my previous ramblings on this:
http://idriders.com/cgi-bin/YaBB_K2/YaBB.pl?board=news;action=display;num=1140043184;start=6#6

(Although I have seen an XP-6 with a "through" hole in the seat tube for canti's. I thought these frames were never used on the XP's, what's your's got Orange?)

Did you buy this one?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Proflex-XP-6-Frame-18-X-Works_W0QQitemZ270088994252QQihZ017QQcategoryZ22679QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
(http://i19.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/8a/fe/d7f0_1.JPG)

If it doesn't say on the frame and you can't do a picture, you can possibly identify it from the frame colour:
Red frame and Blue swing arm & Blue Vector = XP-X
(http://idriders.com/proflex/files/ProFlex-XPX.jpg)

Orange/Gold Frame & Black swing arm & Silver? Vector = XP-8

Orange/Gold Frame & Black swing arm & Black? Vector = XP-6

Col.