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General => Tech Forum => Topic started by: ertman on October 13, 2007, 08:36:24 am

Title: What model is this?
Post by: ertman on October 13, 2007, 08:36:24 am

Can anyone tell me what model/year this bike is?

http://calgary.craigslist.org/bik/448087691.html

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: shovelon on October 13, 2007, 12:12:58 pm

Elastomers in both the fork and rear are probably shot.

But it is labeled Offroad, so it would have to be pre 1995.

The fork indicates that it was top of the line when new.

Terry

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: Simon on October 13, 2007, 08:10:15 pm

I'd say thats an 853 (1993) frame, looks identical
to the 853 I once owned.Forks are not the original
ones that would of been fitted though,that would
probably of been a very early girvin linkage fork or a
rigid fork with a girvin flex-stem.

Simon.

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: orange on October 14, 2007, 12:58:51 am

looks like a 353 - one on ebay recently.

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: Colin on October 14, 2007, 06:23:31 am

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Forks are not the original
ones that would of been fitted though,that would
probably of been a very early girvin linkage fork or a
rigid fork with a girvin flex-stem.

Simon.

Forks might be original.............they're certainly pukka Girvin..............they are a pair of Girvin Pro Forx.

(http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/bc/04/2650_1.JPG)

Col.

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: Simon on October 14, 2007, 09:12:45 am

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Forks might be original.............they're certainly pukka Girvin..............they are a pair of Girvin Pro Forx.

([url]http://i10.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/bc/04/2650_1.JPG[/url])

Col.

Yep Girvin forks but not the forks it would of came fitted with originally.
Girvin didn't make conventional forks until much later than when that frame was produced.

Don't ever recall a 353 ever being produced ?
maybe the ebay one is a miss print.
Like I say looks identical to the 853 I once owned.

Simon.

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: orange on October 14, 2007, 06:46:53 pm

here's a 353 owned by a friend of mine on ebay recently:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=170143912353&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=007

(http://i7.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/b2/71/591c_1.JPG)

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: orange on October 14, 2007, 06:48:29 pm

here's another one

(http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/files/proflex1_345.jpg)

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: Simon on October 15, 2007, 06:58:48 am

I can only assume the 353 is a later version using what would be by then the older 853 frame.
Something Proflex has done in the past.
Though that 353's rear elastomer is either shot or the bike on craigslist is an 853 (far longer elastomer).
Plus the 853 had its canti mounts on the swingarm
that 353 has them on the strut,its difficult but I can't
see and any canti mounts on the strut on the bike shown in craiglist.

Simon.

Title: Re: What model is this?
Post by: purple gerbil on October 26, 2007, 11:00:27 am

hi the bike in craiglist is a 853 girvin proforx was an option and the 353 was a city/commuter bike with 700cc wheels and 853 frame was mostly used by team members with vectors ie bob roll.