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Private Classified => Bikes For Sale => Topic started by: in4 on August 23, 2025, 10:04:36 AM

Title: EBay older nomad
Post by: in4 on August 23, 2025, 10:04:36 AM

https://ebay.us/m/712gMw

Frame number /size recently posted.

Title: Re: EBay older nomad
Post by: brummie on August 23, 2025, 07:47:36 PM

Looks very much like a 560 M/L. I suspect the quoted TT measurenent is actual rather than the virtual ( horizontal ) effective top tube length.

Title: Re: EBay older nomad
Post by: PH on August 24, 2025, 01:45:52 AM

A bit of an odd set up, the bike features bar end and STI shifters, plus V brakes and a canti hanger!  Whatever they've been messing about with, those V brakes are not going to function well with those STI levers, it ought to carry a health warning.  Also looks to have had a cheap powder coat, at least I hope it was cheap they didn't even bother to preserve what was probably a nice stainless steel head badge.  I could be wrong but I thought all the original Nomads came in Humbrol colours so they could be touched up, or was there a mat black? 

Title: Re: EBay older nomad
Post by: brummie on August 24, 2025, 05:11:05 PM

Also forgot the (less?) obvious. Looks more like an XTC - pump mounts behind the seat tube / shot in seat stays.

Title: Re: EBay older nomad
Post by: in4 on August 24, 2025, 07:31:11 PM

I had a MK1 Nomad with a pump peg behind the seat stay. Think a particular pump was de rigour at the time. Also, its badge was painted the same colour as the frame; grey in this instance. Bit of. stealth option.
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