• What more specifically do you think looks off? Apart from black bottle cages, and a set of different pedals (the original look pedals are also included)? When looking at other 1992 Motorola's this looks very similar (especially the flat fork crown). This was the rider's reserve bike for the 1993 world championships, at which point he had moved on to a different team. So some small details might have been changed.

  • Yeah, doing a bit of research (sorry should of done it last night / blame the sun) you are right. I think all the mxl framesets I’ve seen have been from a different year. So some details on the frameset differ. Not seen the original flat crown fork before either.. think that also threw me off :)

  • Haha, no worries, I feel like most people probably have better ways of spending a late monday night after a long weekend... I'm definitely not particularly knowledgeable about these framesets (or bikes in general for that matter), but having looked around, I can't find anything immediate what would make me doubt the bike's authenticity. According to one internet source (so grain of salt), the flat crown fork was used as one way to save weight on some of these framesets (STI weighty, and last of hurrah of steel in these years).

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