wow the bar ends on there weighed over 1/2 a pound total!

Doing the "flick test" and listening to the tubes, it sounds like the stays are thicker on the 1989 vs the 86.. actually the tubing all around seems a little thicker on the 89. not sure how much of that is due to the bigger size vs different tube set. By 1989, Apex was no longer the "apex" of the series line.. Axis Team, Axis and Arrival all are above it in terms of the line up. It was made in Taiwan when DB still was making some bikes in Japan. not sure if that would affect tubeset choices or what.

Really?!? I bought it new and I'm 99% certain it was in 1987. It has white "DIAMOND BACK" and "APEX" lettering and curved forks and is 6-speed and I thought it went to black lettering and straight forks and 7-speed in 1988.

EDIT: Now I think you're right and it is a 1988 model. I moved in late 1987 and I never had the Apex where I was living in 1987. Isn't memory a weird thing. I obviously knew for quite a while that it was a 1988 model. I wonder when and why I started "knowing" it was a 1987? Anyway, thanks for jogging my memory!

They start selling the new "model year" in the fall kinda like cars, so you could have bought it in late 1987..

you actually weren't far off.. it's between 2.5-3lbs.

I swapped out the saddle for something lighter and in better condition, swapped out the giant stem for something a lil shorter, swapped the barends for a pair that weighed about half as much, and removed the pedal reflectors.

I just weighed it again I think the bike's lost over 2 pounds already!

Bathroom scale was telling me 31.5-32lbs. I'm quite not as disappointed with the weight now.. i think if I do a drop bar conversion it may get even lighter. I'm hoping for sub-30lbs.. not sure how realistic that is though

I could also remove the inner chainring, spacers and bolts for more weight loss. I'm considering just swapping on a road crankset though. I need to get slick tires before I can judge how it handles on the roads and if i want to bother making it a high speed machine. Riding on the road with knobbies feels so slow and you have almost no traction in the turns

It's just a 'Sorrento' I imagine on the lower end of their line up , cro-mo main tubes (I'm guessing hi-ten stays) probably early 90's , a nice shade of red.

they offered Sorrento in red in 1992.. here's the 92 catalog https://www.rideandrepair.co.uk/Retro...talogue_RB.pdf