Retro mountain bikes

It's never wrong to know where a Greggstraunt is 😉

So good!

Which calipers/levers are those?

The XT derailleur still retains its original warning sticker regarding 28t max, it'll stay as long as it can .... then it will just fall away into the long grass, the mechs are still available for $239 - with sticker.

On the Zinn?

Campagnolo Icarus levers with hope cable actuated polished calipers, front Hope large flange hub with campagnolo 8 speed Tandem rear hub.

Aha! I thought it was some aftermarket piece of kit :)

holy crap what a collection

Thanks!

Mind-blowing collection of British steel. Do you have project threads for all these on Retrobike?

They are all on there ..... Somewhere

NOS early Stumpjumper https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174524429828

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Excellent find, that is a beaut! Will undoubtedly go for silly money. Thankfully it's too big for me or I'd be justifying that six ways from Sunday.

Fucking hell that’s quite the haul. Like the Bromwich - have a Bromwich mixte sitting in my loft that I keep failing to build up for my partner.

Someone should hire that guy to photograph their wedding.

Picked this up today. Quite a bit of rust but otherwise doesn't seem to have seen a huge amount of use.

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One from the outhouse.....

Marin Bear Valley 1989, with mountain LX groupset only available that one year, found the frameset online and sourced the groupset bit by bit until it was a bike once more

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Early Stumpjumper ending today -
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324383842383

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Amazing collection. Could spend a long time reading about those builds!

Fantastic stuff you've got there mate! Absolutely magnificent, especially love the Yates.

Just bought this awesome GT for an NHS PPE procurement administrator. I'm well jealous of him.
You can help get more rad vintage MTBs to keyworkers by donating to my crowdfunder :)
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bikesfornhs?utm_id=108&fbclid=IwAR27wkCuqn0X8ok26yzxjLjgaQmMVJzQ5IycwjBDIHzQ3VUJm8UhttOsdZw

Postman just delivered an absolutely mint 96 Marin. Can't have possibly have been ridden.

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Lovely. What’s the plan for this?

Man, that's a huge frame. Even for a Marin (that used to have larger head tubes than most others back then)

Might be a little large for me... 58 TT.

O, that must be harsh... How tall are you? I'd say this is something for 1,85 m + riders.

Marin's headtubes are funky. My '93 Redwood is a great fit foor me (I'm 176 cm tall), and its headtube is at least 15 cm.