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Title: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: StellaAtoiz on June 16, 2011, 12:18 PM

I am trying to identify what the following frame is for someone, they tell me they also have the forks but this is all I have to go on at the moment :coolsmiley:

Frame No. M80E23280

Can any Mongoose based experts help at all ???

....or is the clue on the seat post decal "expert" :crazy2:

(http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y324/BurnerMadMan/kl.jpg)

(http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y324/BurnerMadMan/kk.jpg)

(http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y324/BurnerMadMan/kj.jpg)

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: TELLIS302000 on June 16, 2011, 01:47 PM

Thats a Californian made at the Merida factory, Taiwan, June 1988....

Antony

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: StellaAtoiz on June 16, 2011, 01:54 PM

Thanks A - job done :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: TELLIS302000 on June 16, 2011, 02:02 PM

Im no Mongoose expert though so maybe someone will correct me but im pretty sure thats right!  ;)

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: kdw712 on June 16, 2011, 02:13 PM

look at the 87 cat
http://www.vintagemongoose.com/pdfs/mongoose_cat87.pdf (http://www.vintagemongoose.com/pdfs/mongoose_cat87.pdf)

expert was available in classic chrome
but the decals had changed

double check the serial

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: TELLIS302000 on June 16, 2011, 02:20 PM

Yeah might be an Expert then.

The earlier 'experts' seat stay was welded above the top tube.

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: kdw712 on June 16, 2011, 02:30 PM

from just those pics i would say 83 / 84 expert
but that don't tie to the serial provided  :-\

85 had same decals but rivet fixed head badge not a decal

86 had different decals

87 decals had changed again

thats not to say those decals weren't applied later in its life though . . . .   ???

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: StellaAtoiz on June 16, 2011, 02:33 PM

cheers chaps - great help as always :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: Jaymz on June 16, 2011, 02:36 PM

so to sum up

Quote from: Jaymz on RB

mid eighties expert 83-86

Title: Re: Mongoose Identification Required Please
Post by: TELLIS302000 on June 16, 2011, 04:59 PM

Quote from: Jaymz on June 16, 2011, 02:36 PM

so to sum up

Quote from: Jaymz on RB

mid eighties expert 83-86

I would say it could be an 87 - 88 expert, the earlier experts ie 83 had seat stays that were welded above the TT like i have already stated.

Like this...  http://www.vintagemongoose.com/products/expert.php

A