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12-10-19, 12:30 AM

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The engraved headbadge on head tube started around 2005 but in 2005, the Agilis went to straight seat and chainstays. You have curved seat stays. Also, the head tube is not the integrated hourglass like the Agilis. You could have a Magia with a newer decal. The "Merlin" decal looks to be from a little later. Found a catalog from Excel Sports with some Merlin frames with a similar logo. It doesn't show the Magia and not sure what year it's from, but it was from catalog 84 at this link (catalog 84 - Link is really slow so I added screeshot at bottom)

Could also be a CR like BaconSandwich said. You can compare measurements to the geometries in the links below

2004 Magia: https://web.archive.org/web/20051202...kes/magia.aspx

2005 Magia: https://web.archive.org/web/20051124...005/magia.aspx

2005 Geometry: https://web.archive.org/web/20060316...x?b=magia&k=rd

detailed pic: https://web.archive.org/web/20060316...agia_dtls.aspx

screenshot from catalog:

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