Help on identifying this jump bike

shieldsy94

Hi, i bought a bike off of my friend, i have been told it is a old Spank, but i am not completely certain if thats true.
I have gathered so far:
It is made from steel (thin) (could be wron)
It is a geared frame with no drop outs
It has no gear or brake cable routing
It is for 100mm forks
It is disk brake only

The colour of the frame was a dark red but it has since been painted as you can see from the pics













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bike-a-swan

Bottle cage and mudguard mounts but none for the brake or cables? That seems a little strange to me.

shieldsy94

thats what i thought as well

Rindle

The box section chainstays make me think its alloy.

It reminds me very much of a baracude frame that was sold under a variety of different brandings around 2002 -2003. I one of these was the harcore brand as well. Its a fairly generic frame design The give away is the crud guard mounts under the down tube..
I think the cable guide and v brake mounts have been ground off before it was resprayed.

What size is the seatpost? Sometimes this can be a give away.

shieldsy94

The brake bosses havent been grounded off as its completely smooth, the seatpost diameter is around 31.8 but more closer to 32. It doesnt sound like an alloy, my friend has steel and mine sounds identical. Anymore pics can be posted if you want.

shieldsy94

Ok, i will post measurements of the bike as this may help

these are all give or take a few millimetres or maybe a cm
seatube: 32 cm ish
tope tube : 50.4 cm
chainstay bottom: 37cm
chainstay top: 34cm
bottom tube: 41cm
headtube: 10.8cm

Tolk

Do the magnet test, that'll tell you if its steel or not.

shieldsy94

Maggnet attract is steel?

phz

shieldsy94 wrote:

Maggnet attract is steel?

yup

slainte rob

supersonic

It looks more like alloy from the welds.

Sounds have nothing to do with it lol.

shieldsy94

Ok its getting sold, cheers for the help