So I bought this as a frame and fork a couple years ago from a local listing and have been unable to find any info whatsoever about it. So I thought I'd turn to the collective mind here and solve a mystery.

I'm guessing it to be early to mid 90's manufacture. It features an ovalized seat tube at the bottom bracket, roller cam or U-Brake mounts on the rear, a pulley for the top pull routed front derailleur cable, and a very funky bottom bracket/chainstay junction.

Super compact rear triangle with wishbone style construction at the bottom bracket junction. Sloping top tube with top tube cable routing, super short head tube and geometry that appears tailored to a non suspension length fork. Meaning the headtube was not positioned to compensate for the extra length/height that a susp. fork provides. The fork that came with it is a straight bladed tapered leg unicrown with cantilever mounts and a set of fender eyelets on the rear of the dropout.

Head tube is 1-1/8". Rear dropout spacing is 135mm. Tubing is Tange MTB double butted cromo, tig welded construction with some brazing on the seat tube/chainstay junction. Oh yeah, the seat tube is reinforced at the top as well.

Since these photos I've put on some Answer Accu-Trax forks and a Girvin Flexstem to keep with the early 90's theme. Since I know a picture is worth a thousand words, well, here you go:











Downtube decal reads Montagna, seat tube decal reads Sommita, which translated from Italian is roughly "Mountain Summit" or "mountain top", but I doubt this thing is an Italian made frame.

Any info you can provide is super appreciated!