{"id":47,"date":"2009-12-03T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=46"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T09:38:17","slug":"vintage-saracen-catalogue-mother-lode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Saracen Catalogue Mother Lode"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday I spent the day at <\/span>Saracen HQ<\/a> as a guest of Simon Wild, the designer of the relaunched Saracen bike range. Saracen has been brought back from the dead by Madison Cycles<\/a> and they have launched an entire range of bikes in the last two months. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of interest to any Retro MTB fans might well be the 2010 Kili Flyer that I reported on a while back on this blog<\/a> . This bike is going to be fillet brazed in the UK and available in small numbers next year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The purpose of my visit to Saracen was to scan in all of their catalogue archives from the original Saracen company, these will prove to be valuable documents to anyone with an interest in this iconic British MTB company, or anyone restoring an old Saracen MTB.<\/span>
I was given an office for the day and took in my own equipment but despite scanning non-stop from 9:30am until late in the afternoon I only managed to get from 1987 to 1998<\/span> (somewhere in the region of 350 Hi-Res scans <\/span>\"\"). <\/span>

\nSimon was kind enough to let me take the archives home with me so I can complete this mammoth task over the Christmas break. The intention is to tidy up and crop all of the scans and create a high quality PDF for each year. Once this is done they will be hosted on both my site, <\/span>Saracen.co.uk<\/a> and also in the <\/span>RetroBike Archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Some teasers <\/span>\"\"
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On Monday I spent the day at Saracen HQ as a guest of Simon Wild, the designer of the relaunched Saracen bike range. Saracen has been brought back from the dead by Madison Cycles and they have launched an entire …<\/p>\n

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