Raleigh Summit tourer conversion (Shelley)

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  • Much loved KTM tourer (Svetlana) that'd seen me through mountains / forests / thunder storms got nicked whilst watching The Double at Hackney Picturehouse earlier this year (good film; getting your bike nicked, not so good).

    Decided to go the budget route and convert an old MTB into a 26" tourer, which in this case involved an 1992 Raleigh Summit on strength of lugged cromoly. She also came with some busted RockShox from the same era, which made finding rigid / touring forks that wouldn't throw the geometry out quite hard. Most rigid forks are designed to replace suspension forks with 80 - 140mm of travel, but the RockShox had 40mm of travel putting them in fork length purgatory. After calling up Thorn though they were able to dig out some out-of-production "Raven" forks from their warehouse which fitted perfectly.

    Rest of the bike was mostly salvaged from orphan MTBs in my landlady's basement, while the Brooks I had fortunately taken into the cinema with me when the KTM got nicked.

    Sans gubbins:

    Avec gubbins:

  • Looks great, have you got a side on shot?

  • This is really rad! Love it.

  • That is possibly the untidiest bike I have ever seen. It looks dead functional but jeebus it's an eyeful with all its gubbins in place.

  • Rode down to Bristol over 2 days to get acquainted

    Beaucoup gubbins:

  • It's nice

    (Next project is a tourer ;) )

  • those forks are cool.

  • how are you finding the klickfix?

  • :)

  • this is bang on the money. forks look amazing. great build...... i second skully. this is really rad.

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Raleigh Summit tourer conversion (Shelley)

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