Just got a used Litespeed Ultimate - what year is it?

[winstonhouse]

Just got a Litespeed Ultimate - any idea on how I tell what year it was made?

It has titanium rear stays, a Look cf front fork with the yellow fade-to-black - any other clues help. I am without a digital camera at the moment.

Thanks

 

[drewski]

Originally posted by winstonhouse
Just got a Litespeed Ultimate - any idea on how I tell what year it was made?

It has titanium rear stays, a Look cf front fork with the yellow fade-to-black - any other clues help. I am without a digital camera at the moment.

Thanks

you might just send the serial # to Litespeed and ask them?

 

[Rudy]

if it has a carbon seat stay then it's recent

 

[winstonhouse]

Ti stays. Thanks

 

[rv]

2000 or older. 2001 began the carbon seat stay era for the ultimate (I believe.)

 

[winstonhouse]

Haven't heard back from Litespeed.

I notice it does have the Litespeed and ultimate on the downtube, whereas some of the 2000-2001 models appear to have the "Litespeed" on the top tube.

Does that help?