Specialized Rockhopper 95’ and other rides

Edit: I am now merging this thread to include my other builds to save on making separate threads!

Recently acquired a bit of a hodgepodge Rockhopper 95” for free wanted to build it up as a bit of a town cruiser/slightly more capable of off roading than my fixed.

First things first was getting the bike from Brighton up to London this part wasn’t too hard, then it was onto completely stripping the bike down to just the frame everything went surprisingly smoothly even though it had been stored in the damp sea air for however many years.

Just as I was about to take the cranks and bottom bracket off I came to a brick wall the crank arms were stripped inside and the bb was stuck. Eventually I managed to wrangle the drive side off and then attempted with a seatpost over my wrench for extra leverage to free the bb still to no luck, I was going to try out a bolt through my bb tool onto the crank bolt hole to keep the tool attached but couldn’t find a suitable bolt, so off to seabass it went to get removed, what a great job they did leaving me with the frame a mangled crank and a rusted bb.

Now to plan the build, I managed to keep a few parts of the parts off of the bike
STX rear derailleur
Deore lx front derailleur

The rest I will have to have a search on the bay.

My plan so far

Selle italia Turbo saddle
Thomson seatpost annoyingly the frame has a 30.4 seat tube so might shim it down
Swap out the v brakes for some cantis
Some 3x7 shifter brake combo
Not sure on tyres yet wanted some gravel kings but availability seems scarce
Nitto bullmoose bars
Swap the duff suspension fork maybe for a thorn 26er fork

Hopefully have it finished by early next year will keep updated when some orders come in!

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