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The headset on the Muddyfox is doing my tits right in. The bearings were gubbed in the old one and the top nut was stripped so I bought a fancy sealed bearing FSA thing to replace it only the stack height was huge so it barely fit on and it went from slopping about loose as a wizard's sleeve to tighter than a...tight thing with less than an 1/8 of a turn of the headset spanner. It was also possible to have it loose when rocked with the brake on yet still binding when the bars were turned.
I put the old top cup back in and that made it a little better and improved the stack height issue a bit but I think the threads on the forks are worn as I've just stripped another locknut.
I want 1 1/8" ahead!
So when I saw this Marine(sic) Pine Mountain on eBay I had a bid.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/z0gAAOSwirZTwBNU/$_57.JPG
Won it for £2.20 + p&p!
I believe its made from some half decent Columbus tubing so I'm hoping for a bit of a weight saving over the MF. I'm also hoping the P2 fork from the CinderCone will fit it. Everything else will get transferred over from the MF. It also has 2 sets of bottle cage bosses so I'll get to do away with one set of the jubilee clips.