Originally Posted by jeff williams
I really doubt the Kestral pic'ed above was made in '90.
Pretty advanced if it was, neat looking frame!
i don't know - it looks like i remember them looking back then. particularly that grey colour. plus the steel unicrown fork and thumb shifters are the right period as well. i remember that elevated chainstays were in vogue for a while in the late '80s and early '90s as a cure for chainsuck. on an early monocoque like that Kestrel, chainsuck would have been a
very bad thing. so the elevated stays would make sense.