1998 Porsche FS, German Mountain Bike Graphite / W Red Porsche Letters
Porsche’s Design Studio Mountain BIKE
“The Optimum Pairing of Performance and Utility Built to Perform and Endure”
New Hope Hydraulic Disc brakes
“Vintage bike are similar to vintage sports cars in that they create lots of attention, while performing or parked by the side of the road!
“It's different, it's rare, its built to last a life time.
Two-wheel Formula One Racer
1998 Porsche FS Ultra Rare Mountain Bike very few produced for US
market, hand crafted in Germany by
Votec for Porsche
She just completed a full service including reset all factory tune adjustments on shifters/derailleurs and brand New Hope Hydraulic Disc Brakeset, was installed with all new cables and brake lines . (the original brakes seals dry out ,from years of nonuse)
Painted in Porsche Graphite with Red Lettering she is a most stunning bicycle to look at She is in fantastic shape!
At $5,500.00 These were very exclusive when first sold by Porsche in 1998, rarer and more sought after today The FS series was the creation of the famous Porsche design studios AG Weissach, and Votec hand built them in Germany with top of the line components.
You will be hard pressed to ever find a nicer Porsche FS And they only go up in value, truly a rolling sculpture, a real art investment you can play with. You will love looking at the beautiful hand welding, by German Craftsmen. un matched anywhere. The Graphite paint scheme stops everybody in their tracks to get a look at her… while returning from the bike mechanics shop, I was mobbed by people looking and wanting to take pictures with this functional work of art.
Take her to the next Porsche Concourse de Elegance/ German car show and show them what a real Zero Emissions Vehicle looks like!
Who knows you might win best of show!! !
MSRP 1998 $5,500.00
Size fits Medium-Large riders
Fork & Model Votec Inverted
Fork Material Aluminum, double
triple-clamp crown
Rear Shock Risse Racing Astro-5
Component Group Sachs
Brake set Hope Hydraulic Disc New
Brake Levers Hope Hydraulic New
Shifters Sachs Power Grip Extreme Designed in California, engineered in
Germany
Front Derailleur Sachs, top-pull/clamp-on 35.0mm
Rear Derailleur Sachs Plasma
Crankset Original Equipment Lite
Alloy
Pedals Wellgo dual platform/Clip
Bottom Bracket KSS Titan, 110mm
spindle
BB Shell Width 68mm English
Saddle Selle Italia Flite Apps Titanium (scuffs)
Handlebar Porsche flat lite alloy
Handlebar Stem lite alloy bridge
Bar Ends Porsche Lite alloy full Grip
Headset 1 1/8" threadless
aluminum
Wheels Sachs Rigida made in France
Hubs Shimano Deore XT / Sachs Rigida
Tires 26x2.10 Panaracer Fire XC Pro
1998 MSRP $5,500.00
Measures Medium-Large (will fit many shorter ridders too due to V design geometry, check your inseam)
seat tube to bottom bracket 20.50”/52CM
seat tube to center of head tube 23”/58CM
Stand over lowest point from floor 27”/68CM
Stand over high point from floor 33”84CM
Weight 29.88 pounds/ 14 KG
Serial # 215543
No dents, No Rust No cracks, has a few scrapes, scuffs, that have been touched up with Porsche paint. (pic 11) bar ends & cranks have scuffs from use, from storage and handling, titanium saddle has scuffs, comes with the Original Porsche owner’s manual and 1998 Porsche dealer sales brochure Please click on “item description” to see all photos and measurements
This following Review from Motor Trend is for the FS Evolution, it is similar in performance as this FS
When Porsche's design studio decides to go after a marketplace, it rarely fails to impress. Such was the case when it released the FS Evolution mountain bike. The bike pictured here is that model. Suspension is adjustable both front and rear. The forks are motorcycle-inspired upside-down design, delivering a staggering 140mm of wheel travel. The price tag weighs in at $10,612.
While the S (for "suspension") and the FS ("full suspension") models slipped quietly onto the scene last summer, the debut of its tour de force FS "Evo" model this year underscores Porsche's desire to expand its brand recognition. By offering the bikes through Neiman Marcus catalogs, Porsche dealerships and Porsche Design stores, the company hopes to sell about 1000 of these two-wheeled wunders this year. None is merely rebadged from a different manufacturer-all were designed at Porsche AG in Weissach, Germany, where a full 20 percent of Porsche's revenue is derived from designing products other than automobiles.
The specifications of the FS Evo bike are like those of a Formula One race car. The front suspension is a motorcycle-inspired design of inverted fork tubes rebounding via closed-cell elastomeric springs and coil springs located by composite double-triple clamps; the rear suspension is adjustable through an oil/air shock absorber; the wheels are made of carbon fiber; and the brakes are fully hydraulic discs squeezing cross-drilled rotors. Gear changes (27 are available) are made via top of the line Sachs Quartz shifters, derailleurs, and Carbon Fiber cranks while state-of-the-art Hope Disc Brakes claw at the decidedly low-tech dirt.
Riding the FS Evo at a pace or on a trail described as anything less than at-the-limit won't show you what this bike is all about. How does it handle? Like a Porsche. How do the brakes work? Like a Porsche. Compared to other full-suspension mountain bikes we've ridden, the Porsches feel far more precise, stable, and confident in any potential road-rash situation. Where other bikes tend to track the terrain, with the grooves, sand, or small rocks forcing the steering to go the way the ground dictates, the FS Evo has an amazing ability to manage this dangerous tendency, nearly eliminating what in car terms is called "bump steer." Several of the professional riders at the press introduction noticed that the Evo had an ability to save their backsides when they least expected it-when a rut in the dirt grabs a front tire and a different bike would've tossed its rider into the cactus as fast as you could say "prickly pear," the Evo merely rolls over the obstacle with a minimum of drama and the near emergency is over before you know it. I heard, "This bike saved my butt," more than once on the trail.
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Are these New 2017 bikes?
NO 99% of the bikes we offer are vintage from late 1980-2000’s, they may appear new because we strive for truly mint survivors of this era.
Do you buy vintage mountain bikes?
YES, if they are mint/ or near mint, please Call, Text or email us with the brand, size, model, color of your bike. Contact
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How can you tell if a bike has LOW Miles or use?
One quick way is to look at the. Crank arms, brake, shifters & levers, and see if the original name are still shows there, grips, saddle are good to check too , but the often get changed out by a owners personal preference.
When someone tell you this bike has had only 2 -3 short rides in its lifetime, it better not have any major scuffs on the crank arms and brand name should still be clearly on the shifters/brake levers.
We go out of our way to acquire mint bicycles and pay top dollar for them.
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