Help Identifying Year of Specialized Hard Rock
 

I have owned this Hard Rock frameset for years and recently built it up for riding a bunch of Rail Trails with a 1 x 10 drivetrain and a pile of upgraded parts. I have been over every inch of this frame and there is NO serial number anywhere on this frame. Can someone tell me what year this is and which Hardrock model? I need it for my bike registry. I have looked everywhere online and have not seen this color combination. If it helps, it is a chromoly direct drive frame.

Thanks!
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I don't see a photo in your post, but I've had good luck before by looking at the Trek catalog archives, which they have online. Usually I was looking at Hotrocks, not Hard Rocks, but I'd imagine the same goes. I could usually narrow down to about 2-3 model years by looking first at the frame geometry (details of joints among tubes, that sort of thing), then get the specific year by color combos.

That is odd, the picture is attached to the query. I see it just fine.

year 2001

One small picture of your bike does not make it easy to help. Lets see some details and the tubing sticker. As mentioned above the parts on your bike will have numbers/codes that will identify year. Hard to make a match without more detailed info. Your bike also looks similar to 2004 Hardrock comp, but they all seem to be suspension fork, maybe a fork swap?

To me, your bike sure looks like it has an aluminum frame.

Have you tried the magnet test?

Here's one like yours for sale in PDX.

Specialized Hard Rock Sport bicycle - 21-speed, 24" - bicycles - by owner - bike sale - craigslist

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I did not need to do a magnet test as it says chromoly tubing on the frame and had some rust on it that I had to address. That looks just like mine though!

Strange, it didn't show before, but now it does. Also, of course I meant looking at Specialized catalogs, not Trek . . .

I bring that up because the seller of that bike lists his a being made of aluminum.

Looks like the aluminum framed one from about 1998 to 2001 to me. The steel frames had smaller tubing and threaded headsets.

It is definitely Cromoly. I says it clearly on the seat tube. It had a threaded headset, I just converted to an Innicycle billet integrated headset.