scottbikex

Do you recognize this bike? This bikes paint was stripped and im looking to find out the manufacture.
Its all aluminum,here are a few pictures to help try to identify it.
thank you

FLYcrash

Wow, Manitou suspension fork and XT hubset...

...not a cheap bike.

What does the head badge (that label attached to the front of the bike) say?

HillRider

Is there a serial number? Usually they are stamped on the underside of the bottom bracket shell. You may have to look under the cable guide to find it.

Gonzlobo

The rear der cable runs under the BB. This isn't too common is it? Surely it makes the frame a little more identifiable?

Torchy McFlux

It's the Pryme logo. They give out free stickers with their helmets.

Most of the parts are circa 1995. Looks like a Specialized Stumpjumper M2.

ShadowGray

You'd probably have more luck in the mtb forum, if you haven't tried there already.

mechBgon

That's what I thought, too, Stumpjumper M2 or S-Works M2. They were particularly tough to gouge, being metal matrix composite, so look at the area where you'd expect to see chainsuck gouges, and see if it's merely got surface scratching.

It appears not to have the 30.9mm post that the later versions of the M2 had, so it's probably 27.2mm (nominal) and I think that does put it at 1995. On mine, the seat tube was a bit large, and the seat post kept slipping down as a result. I should've gotten a 27.4mm post and called it done, instead of sending it back to Specialized. At any rate, if the post slips down, you may need a super-duty seat collar, and/or a 27.4mm post, and/or some of the grit-paste commonly used on carbon seatposts.

Torchy McFlux

The dropouts don't have threaded holes either, which the A1 frames from that year did IIRC. Must be an M2.

scottbikex

the sticker is just a skull sticker that the person put on the bike. the paint was stripped off the frame (and so was the stickers)
thanks for the help.

gmorris

The frame looks alot like my Gary Fisher-the same bracing by the headtube. The cables are routed different though.

TimJ

That looks like a specialized crankset.

carpediemracing 

I agree with the two M2 votes.

I had an 18" S-Works, the rear dropouts, the reinforcement under the downtube, and the welding all scream M2 ("Metal Matrix"). Nice frames, they eventually crack because they are pretty rigid (my M2 road bike cracked, I sold my M2 mtb after a few years).

M2 refers to the material, the S-Works (or not) simply the grade of parts it came with. Technically the S-Works was supposed to be nicer than the frames in bikes but I'm not sure about that, not in that era.

It's a great hardtail frameset, I regret selling mine.

cdr

Tinkeric

I agree with Specialized. I have an aluminum Stumpjumper and those welds look familiar.

operator

99 % of the bikes out there use under bb cable routing. So no, it doesn't mean anything.

Gonzlobo

Weird, I prefer top pull front ders.

vancmann

Although the crank and some of the welds look specialized, the bike is definitely not a Stumpjumper M2.

Cannondaler

Looks like a Trek 8500

smd3

Did they weld the 8500? I had an 8000 or 9000 of about the same era that had bonded tubes, and I think the front derailleur was top pull. (hardtail)

balataboy

The welds remind me of the GT Pantera. The GT's of that era has some thick weld beads.

FlatFender

put another one down for a specialized of some sort