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Found this one on Ebay, yoke stay without canti cable stop, box bottom bracket, Tomatoe cast rear drop outs, and cable guides on top not the side of the top tube. Crazed decals look newer style but frame elements look 90’s to me. Someone please enlighten this noob, thanks!
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It’s a 2000. The 2001 has a disc brake mount on the seat stay. The decals are all dry and cracked, but Velocals sells 2000 Homegrown decals that are pretty darn close to original.
Final price for the red 2000 Homegrown I inquired about… 80 bucks with 50 bucks shipping. What do you think, good price or not? Almost 100 bucks more than I paid for my orange 2000 Pro, so I have no reference. What did you guys pay for your second hand Homegrown? Thanks!
Livernose is dead on about those Velocals 2000 Homegrown decals. I bought a set (from livernose) and they look great! Thanks again buddy for the decals and the help, I appreciate it in a big way! Cheers
I would pay that for it. Looks to be in great condition. The shipping should have been about $30 through bikeflights.com
You can sand down that chainstay yoke and tape and spray paint it with a close color and it’ll look better. I would take the whole frame in the auto Parts store and use it to compare to the spray touch up paints they have. Tape it with painter’s tape at the welds, spray it and immediately remove the tape. Let it dry a few days and then polish the whole frame with Meguiars Scratch X 2.0 (available at auto parts store, used to remove scratches in clear coat) to remove all the small imperfections in the finish and the lines from where you taped the chainstay yoke, followed by a good wax. If you think you need a second and third coat of paint make sure you tape it and remove the tape each time. That helps the paint lay down at the seam a little better. You’ll be surprised at the result. Maybe even replace those cracked decals. BTW, don’t go over the decals with the Meguiars Scratch X.
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If you paid $30 for that orange frame, you stole it.
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I got it from a rich 20 something year old who lived by the beach. He said it was his brother, he wasn’t a mountain biker, he was into BMX racing. He wanted new BMX platform pedals and they were going to cost 35 bucks, that’s where the magic number came from. I knew it was a killer but it needed everything, the only original part was the Tomato seat post collar. Since then I’ve managed to get some Velocals decals (thanks livernose), the tubing decal, a NOS ICBM
…NOS ICBM headset, and a red Tomato stem cap. I’m really fond of the Satin Black 2000 Factory Homegrown, I might open my wallet and get the frame media blasted and powder coated Satin Black and then apply the decals and build it up. The thing is I’m getting impatient, I want to ride it! Time will tell…
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