1999 Sunn Gran Royal 
#1 2008-10-23 1:16am
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1999 Sunn Gran Royal
1999 Sunn Gran Royal
SUNN's xxl racer in the late 90's. Very nice Columbus tubing steel frame.
This frame was made famous by a number of super fast French riders in the 90's. This was a great bike to ride and race. Really smooth with great dimensions and quite light.
* Frame: Sunn Granroyal (Columbus tubing)
* Forks: Answer Carbo Pro
* Stem: DK XXL Ahead + Head Lock
* Bars: S&M Slam
* Headset: Tange
* Grips: ODI lock on
* Brake Lever: Shimano XT
* Brakes: Shimano XTR with cable roller
* Cranks: Profile with shortened spindle
* Chainwheel: Profile Imperial 44t
* Pedals: Revecore with custom Stainless steel axles
* Chain: Izumi
* Rims: Araya Super 7X
* Hubs: Profile cassette with 16t
* Spokes: Sapim stainless with Alloy Spline Drive nipples
* Tyres: Tioga
* Seat: Vetta with manganese rails
* Seat Post: Control Tech
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#2 2008-10-23 2:10am
- primal
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
nice looking bike!!
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#3 2008-10-24 5:43am
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
Isn't that a Profile "Imperial" Chainring, not a Whippet... 
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#4 2008-10-24 9:49am
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
Cool bike, I got the same frame in the same color.
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#5 2008-10-24 6:26pm
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
Thanks o1mlc. Imperial it is!! Getting old 
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#6 2008-10-24 6:36pm
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
Hey TZ. I saw your SUNN. Looks good. I think the only difference between the Royal and Granroyal is the slightly longer TT on mine?
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#7 2008-10-25 8:07am
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
granroyal wrote:
Hey TZ. I saw your SUNN. Looks good. I think the only difference between the Royal and Granroyal is the slightly longer TT on mine?
You are right, but other than that that I think they are identical. Do you still happen to have the original fork?
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#8 2008-10-25 11:56pm
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
Yeh, got the forks still. I keep a seperate lower bearing race and headset cup for each set of forks so that I don't have to bash anything off the forks when I used to swap them over. I think they look similar to the Cyclecraft dirt leg forks.
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#9 2009-03-17 12:33am
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
GRAND ROYAL, YOU DONE A FINE JOB,LOOK'S LIKE A BLACK PANTER, READY TO ATTACK!!!
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#10 2009-04-09 2:07am
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
the bike reminds me of the flying frenchman christophe leveque...that sucker was BAD!!!by the way, you have a great looking ride, hook me up maybe with one of those bikes itl make me a little faster SWEET RIDE DUDE!!!
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#11 2009-04-10 6:13pm
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
Thanks olskool
Christophe definitely influenced the purchase of this frame. He was super quick and smooth. I thought it made me faster 
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#12 2011-06-20 9:20pm
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
sweet ride! very nice.
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#13 2011-10-31 8:08pm
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
Hey mate, awsome bike. I was trying to find info on them as a mate had one in 2000? I think 2000 anyway,it looks like his and he still lives in Berridale. Could be his old one, did you buy it new or used?
Or was it a local ACT thing as he got it down there. Never seen another one.
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#14 2012-09-25 12:08am
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Re: 1999 Sunn Gran Royal
aaronl wrote:
Hey mate, awsome bike. I was trying to find info on them as a mate had one in 2000? I think 2000 anyway,it looks like his and he still lives in Berridale. Could be his old one, did you buy it new or used?
Or was it a local ACT thing as he got it down there. Never seen another one.
Hey there aaronl,
I haven't been on the museum in over a year I think???
Yeah I sold this bike to Cal in 2000 as I blew my back out. I'm pretty sure it sat in his lounge room for a long time. I eventually came good and spent a number of years pestering him to sell it back to me. 2004? 2005? I got it back. Not letting it go again.....missed it too much
Cheers
Gran
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