Can anyone help identify this Ally Recycling Centre Find

madiccy
madiccy Posts: 6
edited March 2013 in MTB general
Hi All,

I just picked this frame up from my Local Recycling Centre,
Mainly because I liked the look of it and partially because it looked like a bargain at £2.00
I'm just wondering if anyone knows what it is??

Thanks in Advance
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  • ilovedirt
    ilovedirt Posts: 5,798
    Reminds me of some sort of old saracen...
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  • Twelly
    Twelly Posts: 1,437
    ilovedirt wrote:
    Reminds me of some sort of old saracen...

    Was also thinking Saracen. I had an 'Xcell' in 2004ish that had a similar down tube.

    Has it been painted? or stripped? If its just silver paint, give it a rub down and look for branding.
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Is an old generic jump frame, Brand X type thing.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    supersonic wrote:
    Is an old generic jump frame, Brand X type thing.
    dont think it is even that good.
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  • allthegearnoidea
    allthegearnoidea Posts: 4,077
    Daves Chain Device!! Gave mine to a mate who loves Retro kit and desperately wanted one! Awesome
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  • madiccy
    madiccy Posts: 6
    Haha Thanks everyone.... I suppose it's still better than the £2.00 outlay :-)
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Well yes and no. It's clearly going to need quite a bit spent on it to get it working, and it's a dirt cheap bike anyway, so unless you had a need for a partly built crap bike which someone deemed worthy only for a skip then no, it's not worth more than the £2 you paid!

    I have some mouldy bread here. Yours for just 20p?
  • kevinharley
    kevinharley Posts: 554
    njee20 wrote:
    Well yes and no. It's clearly going to need quite a bit spent on it to get it working, and it's a dirt cheap bike anyway, so unless you had a need for a partly built crap bike which someone deemed worthy only for a skip then no, it's not worth more than the £2 you paid!

    I have some mouldy bread here. Yours for just 20p?

    :lol::lol::lol::lol:
  • madiccy
    madiccy Posts: 6
    well being as Scrap alloy is today worth just under £1000 a ton it should be worth about £7.00
    No ta to the mouldy bread, I tend to eat it before it's mouldy.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    How do you figure? Not got 7kg of alu there...
  • madiccy
    madiccy Posts: 6
    ahh no... 5k if I can be bothered to clean it up (unlikely)
    i do know someone I can sell it to for a tenner though... thats probably a better idea!
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    In which case it was good value. Happy days.
  • bennett_346
    bennett_346 Posts: 5,029
    madiccy wrote:
    Haha Thanks everyone.... I suppose it's still better than the £2.00 outlay :-)
    People said that about the sub prime mortgages and look where we are now...
  • madiccy
    madiccy Posts: 6
    bennett_346 wrote:
    madiccy wrote:
    Haha Thanks everyone.... I suppose it's still better than the £2.00 outlay :-)
    People said that about the sub prime mortgages and look where we are now...


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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I'd have bought it for 2 quid -frame will fetch £20 on ebay cleaned up.
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Plus a fiver for the Deore? mech, A couple for the V's and same for the guide. I'd say you're quids in.
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    This ^ and more. Every individual part you've got there could be eBay-ed: bars, grips, brakes, levers (do the levers as a pair and the calipers individually) stem, forks, etc., and you could easily get more than £2 for most of them.
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  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,317
    Clean the DCD up and stick it on retrobikes
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Certainly worth £2...

    Looks like a Merida frame to me from the dropouts, mech hanger and the headtube the triangular gusset undet the top tube to seat tube was also used on some of their frames (Shogun's and CBR's, dropouts look similar to a CBR's as well - the daughter had one), so I'm not convinced it's as bad as some say, not good, but far from BSO bad.

    Nothing like an Xcile which has a silly narrowing of the down tube ahead of the BB.
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  • Twelly
    Twelly Posts: 1,437
    The Beginner wrote:
    Nothing like an Xcile which has a silly narrowing of the down tube ahead of the BB.

    I think you are thinking of this:
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    I meant this:
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  • carbonkid
    carbonkid Posts: 52
    looks a bit like a kona shred to me, just powdercoated an old one and got £60 for it on ebay, so £2 is a bargain

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