Can you identify this Ross bike?
05-08-09, 10:30 PM
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Can you identify this Ross bike?
I got this Ross bike in a trade recently and i am very curious to know what year and model it is. It is definitely from the 80's probably mid to late. It has shimano light action FR and DR. Weinemen 590 or something brakes. I dont know what else to tell ya so here are some pics. the guy before me completely blacked the bike out.
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05-09-09, 03:49 PM
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Velobase has scans of old Ross catalogs, you might try looking through some of those. There is also a really large Ross thread that may have something similar, just type ross into the search function.
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06-06-09, 10:34 AM
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typing in ross = 500 results, and i believe it to be one or two years newer than any catalogs they have on velobase. great resource though, thanks.
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Is the bike light in weight? What about seat post size? That can sometimes guide you towards frame construction. Most of the Ross bikes were really low end, but they did make a couple of really nice bikes.
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its disassembled now so i cant exactly weigh it. the seat post is 26.4. i figured it was low-end when i got it but i was under the impression that biopace was considered decent and was used on decent models at least when it first came out. and i know that light-action isn't great but isn't at least mid-level ish.
