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Some Responses to “Dark Green Deluxe” :

1. Hey Carl,

   That is my old frame. I bought it from ebay as a complete bike. The original color was blue & it was first bought from Mystic Bike in Mystic,CT. The listing off of ebay was from San Diego. I sent it back to IF & had them repaint the frame(Carbon Black I think was the color name,its in the older color choices) and build the fork for me. After building it I figured out that it was an inch to small. If I remembered correctly the ser. # is IF25SD & that the frame is #25 out of the factory & they told me that they never saw such a well preserved frame of its age @ the time of repaint. I replaced it with a new custom frame set from IF, the new bike rules and fits like a glove! It was a great bike & I’m glad to see it still being used. I hope you get miles of fun from it, enjoy. Cheers!!

   Rob

   Commented Rob Gothen on January 22nd, 2010.

2. Hi Rob
   Thanks for the comments and additional history. Of course I had the colour wrong, I don’t know why but I had it in my head that is was dark green.
   I’m still playing around with the build…a mix of modern and retro. Wheels are old school HuGi.Cranks Middleburn with 1×9er build. Seat post is Ti Syncros. Brakes are new school Avid Ultimate, levers included. Stem is shimmed Thomson at the moment and that’s just plain wrong. Still looking for that svelte steel stem. Guess I am going to have to save up and pay Mr Steelman a visit.
   Lovely frame and fork..the ride is superb. Very very very happy with it.
   Cheers, Carl

   Commented Carl Davies on February 12th, 2010.