Retro mountain bikes

Lovely. Nice and clean.

Very tidy build 👍 👌

Fan of this composition!

@Belagerent

It's one of these https://www.xtracycle.com/free-radical-leap-conversion-kit/

For child carrying duties, but it was heavy and huge and largely pointless...

Having a lot of fun on this at the moment

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looks very good, which bars are those?

Readers

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Some of my previous retro MTBs...

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Nice stuff.

Nice!

a. Are the tyres worth the price?
b. Where the hell can I order them?

Any recommendations for a single speed freehub cog that isn't surly?

Think halo do one

Almost ready to start building these two frames up. Plan for one to be a 3x9 and the other a 1x10 just due to the parts I currently have and recent splurge on purchased kit during lockdown. The gold/copper frame is an old Marin Pine Mountain powder coated in my old work before it closed down.

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Is it just me or are vintage mountainbikes becoming the new vintage racebikes? I see them appear in wanted ads more and more (and prizes raise and raise... 😕)

One of the bikes I'm currently working on. Don't mind the front v brake, I couldn't find a fitting cable hanger/noodle stem in 1 1/4 and I want to ride it...

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I'm new to the single speed thing, but the Halo fat foot cog I bought had teeth too fat for the 8 speed chain I used.

I thought the name was just about the base! Surly wide base cog was fine.

Anyone flogging any of the following.. will need to be posted (and budget) for a rat build.

Suspension forks. Non-tapered steerer.. nothing too lairy.
27.2mm seatpost
Square taper crankset.
Canti brakes (rear) - disk brake front.
Stem
Bars
26” wheels
Saddle
Mechs-shifters etc.

I’ve no real direction at the moment.. just a frame. Hoping I can find a few bits and take it from there.

Great condition paintwork Wim

Aye and folk are asking for stupid prices for them too, when about 2 years ago you could have given them away.

Thanks, @SideshowBob

Paintwork is really good, indeed. But seller didn't tell me about the "loose" bottle cage boss (and there's a bolt stuck in it) so can't put cages on it. Good thing back in the nineties Camelbak were hot. 😁

I know. And the worse thing: they force others to sell for crazy prices too...

Got this Easton post for a tenner posted

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It's fucking irritating. Have you seen how much simple stuff like stems go for now? People used to dump that shit. Now a basic Syncros stem goes for nearly 3 figures.

There was a NOS Tioga disk on eBay recently... for 2500 €. That's more than twice the price it costed back in the nineties.

Are the tyres worth the price?

Yes. Best 26" you can buy for your retro MTB frame.