Mystery solved!

A few weeks back, I posted some photos from a local classified ad that caught my attention.

The carbon lugged mid 90s road bike in question, without any decals or head badge, was unusual to me as it had rear stays made of three separate tubes, with a metal bridge in the middle. Something I hadn’t seen before.

Some detective work followed… 🕵️‍♂️ and friend suggested a few pointers:

A 1990 Giant cadex 980C, which indeed does have a (larger) metal piece in the rear stays. But the head tube is clearly different.

A 1992 Koga Miyata Full Pro Carbolite, with the same head tube but clearly different rear triangle.

Then a tangent onto horrible early 90s cycling fashion (look away! 😳😱)

A 1990 Lemond TVT, again different rear stays and seat lug.

A 1989 Centurion Carbon-R, never saw one of these before, again with a different rear stay bridge piece and seat lug.

Still none the wiser… then another similar ad came up locally which confirmed it is indeed a Koga Miyata Full pro carbolite frame!

No doubt about it, this is the frame, and really nice anodised aluminium pieces too.

A further catalogue search confirmed it as a 1993 model year, and my curiosity can rest at ease.

Until the next unusual frame comes up!