Help ID my vintage specialized road bike. Allez? what year?
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Help ID my vintage specialized road bike. Allez? what year?
i found this in my friends shed the other day. it was in good shape but had been sitting for probably 15 years unused.
i put on some new bar tape, all new cables and some new tires/tubes and the rest is in great order, albeit some of the bolts and little knobs are corroded.
anyway, i just want to know if it is an allez or what, and what year it might be.
it has shimano 600 components all around, except the "royal gran compe" brakes.
the seatstays are not lugged, rather welded. they have a specialized "S" embossed into the top of them, as well as the stantions of each fork tube. has horizontal dropouts.
ive been riding it for two days now, and i really like it. it feels great and has a nice predictable feel around turns. ive ridden alot of road bikes but this is the first one ive owned. i actually really like the steel frame feel, and since i commute on rather bumpy roads, i think carbon would have been a poor choice
any help?
i put on some new bar tape, all new cables and some new tires/tubes and the rest is in great order, albeit some of the bolts and little knobs are corroded.
anyway, i just want to know if it is an allez or what, and what year it might be.
it has shimano 600 components all around, except the "royal gran compe" brakes.
the seatstays are not lugged, rather welded. they have a specialized "S" embossed into the top of them, as well as the stantions of each fork tube. has horizontal dropouts.
ive been riding it for two days now, and i really like it. it feels great and has a nice predictable feel around turns. ive ridden alot of road bikes but this is the first one ive owned. i actually really like the steel frame feel, and since i commute on rather bumpy roads, i think carbon would have been a poor choice
any help?
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I see lugs
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Dating a bike where the decals are gone, and the frame may well be a repaint is difficult. Best bet is to look at the component codes and date them.
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its a mid-eighties Specialized Sequoia. Somewhere between 84 and 86 they made them in white. The gap between the seattube and the rear tire is the giveaway. Sequoia's of this vintage had longer chainstays and fairly quick front ends.
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