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marketplace - what on earth is this?

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Anyone know what this is? I'm not after buying it but it looks interesting! I don't recognise any of the brand names and the logos have been sanded off the frame.

"qid":"-6140416128687990025","mf_story_key":"36590387302963265","commerce_rank_obj":"{\"target_id\":36590387302963265,\"target_type\":6,\"primary_position\":2,\"ranking_signature\":2794726578033000448,\"commerce_channel\":501,\"value\":0.00012911135332831,\"upsell_type\":129,\"candidate_retrieval_source_map\":null,\"grouping_info\":null}","lightning_feed_qid":"-6140418877346703489","lightning_feed_ranking_signature":"6154888121730203648","ftmd_400706":"111112l"}

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:03 pm
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Looks like a proflex, with Girvin fork. Circa mid to late 90s

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:07 pm
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Definitely a proflex, maybe a Beast.

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:09 pm
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As above , proflex , I had a girvin fork on my stumpjumper, until it got nicked ! 🙁 .... great fork

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:12 pm
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I was gonna say proflex too, although mine had a flexstem, rather than those beasts.
Wasn’t that the one that was in ‘Dirt’?

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:12 pm
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Yup, Proflex with Girvin forks. I'd say late 90s, as it's got Noleen coil shocks on, rather than elastomer "springs"

756 mebbe?
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Posted : 17/06/2022 6:15 pm
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That's nicked, that's what that is.

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:26 pm
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I remember wanting one of those

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:31 pm
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the stealth ads are getting less stealthy these days

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:35 pm
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Only £54,321 but nobody has snapped it up yet!

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:54 pm
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It's a K2 rather than a Proflex surely?

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 6:54 pm
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Proflex was the name of the model range.
The original company was Offroad, then sold to K2 (unless it became just Proflex somewhere in between?)

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 7:00 pm
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I think it went to Proflex as a company name before being sold to K2

https://mmbhof.org/bob-girvin/

Im having memories of staring at a K2 Animal in Leisure Lakes for quite some time

Ended up with a Zaskar Le (frame) in the end

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 8:06 pm
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Goodness me it’s not mine! Just wondering if it was interesting enough to look at it a bit closer. Seems that it might be!
thanks for identifying it guys 😀

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 8:07 pm
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How does Facebook Marketplace work? Is there a benefit to listing something at £54,321?

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 8:37 pm
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Flex stem like this?
Fkex

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 8:50 pm
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"if you no wot your looking at inbox me with your offer"

Is it an illiterate cretin?

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 8:56 pm
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Yes, obviously - he also seems to think it's worth a small fortune because it's a retro bike. There's full bikes on eBay for a few hundred...

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 8:57 pm
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I had a Proflex 856 with Pace RC35 forks. I designed and made a rising rate linkage for it and increased the rear travel to 125mm but could only afford RST Hi5 forks.

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 9:11 pm
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Was it Shockwave in West Bridgford who stocked Pro-Flex back then?

I remember going there to look at shiny stuff I couldn't afford as a teenager, then wandering across to Mansfield Road cycles to buy some shiny tat I could.

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 9:19 pm
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"Anyone know what this is?"

Yes, it's a ridiculous link that could be shortened to this

Or maybe [url=

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 10:18 pm
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Sorry to ruin your day with a long link that no one else had any issues with but hope you feel better now you’ve pointed out how clever you are.

 
Posted : 17/06/2022 10:28 pm
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Sorry to ruin your day with a long link that no one else had any issues with but hope you feel better now you’ve pointed out how clever you are.

Actually, I thought it was a bit crap too ☹️

Just look for the “?” And delete all the rubbish after it

 
Posted : 18/06/2022 12:48 am
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Didn't they have a reputation for snapping?

 
Posted : 18/06/2022 2:06 am
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At each other it appears so....

 
Posted : 18/06/2022 7:20 am
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Fence needs painting

 
Posted : 18/06/2022 7:52 am
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Sorry to ruin your day with a long link that no one else had any issues with but hope you feel better now you’ve pointed out how clever you are.

This made me chuckle

 
Posted : 18/06/2022 11:10 am
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Sorry to ruin your day with a long link that no one else had any issues with but hope you feel better now you’ve pointed out how clever you are.

This made me chuckle

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That brightened my morning too 🙂

 
Posted : 18/06/2022 11:20 am
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The stated price is just because he felt he had to put a number in, so he stuck 5-4-3-2-1 down and wants offers. I reckon £50 would cover it.

 
Posted : 18/06/2022 12:38 pm