MV's late '90s Hardcore Hardtail project.

Very nice. Snowflake is ace. What did you cut the bars down to?

Awesome build

Went to 750mm, feels perfect.

Did you try them at full width at least once? I ran a Superstar Yardstick once and it wasn't as bad as you might expect.

I didn’t. I have some 850mm plus bars on other bikes though, definitely a time and place for them!

Yeah all my MTBs have to be 800 at least now. I got some of the first ever pairs of mass produced 780mm bars made by One23, I think Kore did the other set (torsion?). Everyone said they were too big now look at them all ha. Coming from motorbikes made it feel a lot more natural for me though.

The Pantera look frickin' great... makes me want to change plans and build one myself.

Thanks! I thoroughly recommend building one.

Took it out last night to ride with a mtb meetup group I joined on facebook and ended up going down some pretty steep/technical stuff on it. Certainly had no problem keeping up with the rest of the group who were on very modern full sus bikes.

I blew the oil out of the plastic damping cartridge in the Judy fork do have upgraded to a slightly more modern (2000) Marzocchi fork with a bit more travel.

Meant swapping the cantis for v brakes as Marzocchis with canti hangers are a bit hens teeth but means I get to use my XTR levers and I got some nice Dia Compe brakes that fit with the colour scheme.

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Excellent build! How does it feel riding on trails? Looks like it would be fun on the pump track.

I think the Marzocchi forks look like a better aesthetic fit for it too. Love it.

This looks so good

Haven't done any serious riding with this fork on yet but what I have done feel pretty good.

I think the Judy was maybe a bit more active, maybe because it was softer sprung but I think the Marzocchi will work better overall.

Outrageous. So good.

Looks fantastic. Love those red Dia Compes!

Lonely stuff!