Monster, Monsteur, Monstour , 26/29+ and Expedition and Adventure bikes

Damn, I go away and the Uk gets all elemental, where was that shot @Silly_Savage? It looks like fun!

#newpagefail

No idea, lifted from the Rawland Facebook feed so probably in the US somewhere.

I can't tell if they're slicks on snow or knobblies with guards, either way probably not a great idea.

Rad!

More on the Diamondback. It's painfully good.

here you go: https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/diamondback-response-monster-machine-24883

It belongs to someone one here no? I remember it being posted before.

Hey, that setup is exactly what I've got on a retro MTB - 10-speed SRAM, X7 (he's got X9) derailleur, TT shifter in the bar end. Except for some reason he's got the shifter on the left hand with the cable not routed under the bar tape - odd.

And I wonder how he got a 1 1/8" fork in there. It was about then that the standard switched from 1" right?

Plenty of 1.125" steerers around in that era, 1.25" too...

He did the same on this bike:

Yeah, it works great and considering that you can get a derailleur and shifter for <£50 (used) it's a pretty good setup.

He's routed the cable under the tape in that one. Maybe it's the weirdly shaped cables in the other bike, don't imagine they'd feel good under the bar tape

Thanks. Guy has elegant bikes in the stable.

Mavic EX 721 is a disc rim? Loses a few cool points for that.

I use a similar setup to you. Friction bar end shifter with X something sram 10 speed derailleur. I've routed the cable under the tape and it works fine, I know it's not indexing, but the derailleur returns very smoothly

Mm that suntour brake is nice though, I'd like some of those

I'm using the indexed right-hand one, but I could envisage taking the non-indexed front shifter as a spare if I was going on a month-long tour of Mongolia or something crazy. Is it not difficult to be accurate with a 10-speed cassette and no indexing?

Nah its easy. Only been on one big ride with that setup so far and it only took a couple of miles riding in London to get a feel for how much cable to pull/push in order to sit nicely in the correct gear. It was surprisingly easy.

I think I would cry every time I had to move my hand to the fucking bar end in order to shift

I have been waiting for ages for a decently priced 10sp bar-end TT shifter to pop-up anywhere...

WOW! like this!!

If you go on eBay, set up an alert for "SRAM TT" and check the email every day. I bought a pair that were £30 buy it now. Also join some Facebook groups for selling bike parts (if you're in the UK there's one called "UK bike parts for sale or free"). If you look at the sold listings on eBay £25-£30 seems to be the best price you're going to get.

Also you could have a look at the classifieds on here, better chance of someone doing you a deal.

The silver one might be my do it all with a retro feel dream bike.
Made by @J_K also on here, he posted it in functional.

Thaks for the tips! Have not setup an ebay notification yet but sounds like a good idea! Do have notifications set for other sites though.

Classifieds here have not been very succesfull for the TT shifters as they seem to be popular :)

And yes, I am one of those hipsters that are not on facebook.

Yeah they are popular. Not sure why to be honest, I would have thought that 10-speed TT parts and bar-end shifters are both fairly niche uses... The TT guys I'd expect to be on 11-speed by now

Edit: and yeah, eBay is where I had most luck. The auction ones tend to go for a bit more as there's more chance for people to notice them, your best bet is to find a cheap set with Buy It Now.

Double edit: this looks like a reasonable deal actually. Keep what you need and sell the rest on, pretty sure that stuff is worth a bit more than £100 separately.

I was offered some 10s DA levers for a tenner or something on here recently! PM for secret details...