Originally Posted by
T-Mar
I don't believe that WSI spec'd the oversized Tioga headset until 1990 and the smoke paint was gone by 1991, so it should be a 1990 model. I've seen both the 1990 Apex and Ascent in the bue smoke fade to white paint scheme. The former was spec'd with Shimano Deore DX, while the latter used Shimano 400LX.
Thanks T-Mar, this D-Back had it's parts stripped off it by the time I'd seen the frame. They've disappeared into the ether by now. At first I'd thought the serial had been filed and the house paint was so thick it made reading it barely legible, but it is there in fact. What type of metal are we looking at for this frame? I think it isn't a light one judging by weight. Short chainstays though and yet can take a wide tire by the looks of things. Might be fun to put some Winnipeg Pothole Tamers on it for more of a glide ride. It doesn't have under down tube braze-ons so this isn't the EX model, assuming all EX's had that feature. This frame has the curved forks, not the straight. This is probably the frame here >>
https://bikerebuilds.com/bikes/diamo...y-sfbiketrader