Look at what I just bought - more photos

Couldn't pass this up. 2003 BB7, brand new never built. I'm going to put either an Avalanche DHS with remote res on there, or some other shock that will fit. Then a pile of modern parts to make the old girl shine. That's #4 for me. I've owned a '00, '01, '02, and a '03.

Very sweet. I have alway liked the looks of those. And teh orange is wicked.

sweet! love those things. what's the geometry like? can you short shock it [HTML_REMOVED] slack it out a bit? sad there's no high pivots currently on the market; amazingly effective.

looking forward to seeing the build.

Nice!
Don't see too many of them around anymore…

This is around 65-66 degrees with a 7" fork. So probably around 64-65 with an 8".

Of all the bikes I've ridden over the years, I'd still say the high pivot is the best I've ever used. I can't wait to put a good shock on it.

Balfa.co.uk are still making replacement parts.

I'll bet James can frankenshock something to work on that frame.

Beautiful!! Throw some 3.0 Gazzi's on there, and head out for a vigilante urban vancouver square ride!

Wow. Blast from the past or what? There were quite a few in the CV back in the day as the Cumberland crew was pretty stoked on them. Amazing find.

Beautiful!! Throw some 3.0 Gazzi's on there, and head out for a vigilante urban vancouver square ride!

Noooooo! I could see doing a sweet, updated, modern-ish build… BB7 + the lessons we've learned in the last few years about weight/geo/front-end height, and that thing could be awesome.

With a modern build that will make a sweet dh sled… They corner amazing and actually jump pretty good… They are very hard to manual though - but my manual skills are weak.

i saw that too, i thought about it. but im more of a fan of the low-mid pivot.

i vote for an avalanche fork to match, oh and bmx cranks, titanium ones, yes that would be nice

hurr. i picked up one of these the other day with the floating brake mount. awesome.

Sick bike! I used to love those things back in the day, and after seeing that photo, turns out I still do. Awesome colour as well!

Noooooo! I could see doing a sweet, updated, modern-ish build… BB7 + the lessons we've learned in the last few years about weight/geo/front-end height, and that thing could be awesome.

The Balfa guys were ahead of their time. They were doing low head tubes when others were making huge ones, rearward wheel trajectory and idlers when others weren't even thinking about that stuff…… and so on. In 2000 I had a super low end handlebar and a built 41lb BB7 when mostly everyone were trying to go with a high bar and massive weight.

Back in the day these were low and slack, and with a modern build this bike will be as good as anything on the market today.

I think making a remote res would be pretty standard for old man Downing.