Retro mountain bikes

No bother, is showing 440,00 kr for me too.

Need to take a better photo

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this rips

Frame cost me £13. It's banging.

"Kr." is the danish abbreviation
"DKK" is the international abbreviation

Trying to resist buying a GT Tequesta that has come up locally. It’s the early 90s horizontal drop out, non mad paint version but does have the funky GT stem. The idea is to build it up single speed with parts I have to replace a Kona Hahaha that is geared and a little too big for me.

Am I mad? Am I asking this question in the wrong place?

I'd say do it if the price is right. Solid (heavy) bikes and fun to ride. My first proper mtb was a GT of this era so I am biased, built up a 92 tequesta recently for a trip down memory lane. For me though the ones with the funky paint are the ones to have, and do come up for sale fairly regularly.

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Nice! What bars are those?

Price is key. Currently I think it’s overpriced so once I’ve checked it out I’ll negotiate.

Azonic

Thanks!

Yeah do it if it's cheap enough. I saw this tidy little whip on my ride home tonight.

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I’m stuck with my marin (95 bear valley se). I can’t let go of it cos it was my dad’s, it’s had a creaky stem that has survived 2 headsets- one ck- and three stems and 2 bars. I really want to go aheadset. the paint is fooked cos i snapped a drop out and got it repaired but i rattle canned over the weld. so I could pop a new mismatching fork in and make it more ratty but have had a nightmare sourcing a fork second hand with enough steerer cos the bike is a gate. Other issues are: I want it to look like a tarty hipster ‘sled’ but all of the above plus I need it to carry my d-lock, never puncture, still be fast, and not cost a ton; plus there’s a load of ugly bits on it, like weird early 2000s twin spoke wheels, a seat bag, the lock holder, deore x3 chainset and 8 speed altus/gripshift gears, plastic mudguards and 1.5 skinny marathons; all of which function really well and have miles left. I’m even thinking of asking winston to extend the steerer. I need a life coach to make a plan. I vaguely know that if I do the work the bike will finally snap in half on it’s maiden voyage. Sort of like when Gok pulls back the curtain only to find his made-over participant collapsed on the changing room floor.

make a plan

Sounds like it has a lot of sentimental value. I'd just throw all of the money at it and make it exactly what you want

thanks! more like a payment plan then?

I've gone and bought whole bikes that I've previously owned just for nostalgia and sentimental value.

stuck with my marin
can’t let go of it

Sounds like you need a little miracle...or just throw all of the money at it. I reckon it's one of those "all or nothing" projects. Unless the sentimental value is partly how ratty it is

That’s near identical to what I have in mind.

Apart from that Ass saver it looked decent 👌

I don‘t build up many MTBs but here we go

Full rebuild from scratch including new bb. Tried to keep the vibe alive

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i've decide to go with feel and less dork, as I think positively nice aesthetics would be too expensive and difficult for me (I'm the kind of (depressed ?) person to just wear whatever and am not bothered most of the time). I'm getting rid of the marathons, the straight bars and bar ends, the shiney silver stem, the weird (but admittedly brilliant) wheels, the HT 3x chainset, the gripshift, and hopefully the lock holder.

Finished my On One 456 26'er from a few pages back. As I don't fancy drilling holes in the ti frame I was limited to a dropper post that had external routing, and further hindered by the old school 27.2 seatpost. As a result the best I could find was the 125mm drop Thomson gravel post.

Also wanted a bigger large chainring for fast ripping around town, so scrapped the standard mtb rings for some 48/36/26 rings. I looked for silver or black rings but the only big ring I could find to fit these old XT triples were from Shimano's DHi-WBG range (dry heave inducing wheelie bin grey)

...which in addition to looking rank on a bike with any colour at all, even manages to look shit on a grey ti bike. I resisted my initial urges to get coloured anodised parts like 90's me would have, but wheelie bin grey is not tolerable so I ended up getting as ASBO anyway as it was out with the rattle cans.

I then discovered the XT front derailleur I had would not shift to the big ring no matter what adjustments I made, and after consulting with the internet I discover the leap to 48 was a no go with the FD I had, and I needed a treking XT front derailleur to handle that.

When I initially got the bike my initial thoughts were the bars were too wide, a few months later and 2 doors and 3 flights of stairs to get into and out of the flat was like this every time......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CrIu01SnM

I also fancied more rise than the Easton bars had, so got some Renthal Fatbar's with a 2 inch rise and cut them down to 660mm and added some DMR V12 mags like I used to ride in the olden days, so finally finished all that this afternoon.

That is very nice. A classic which will keep on providing a lot of fun

Was having trouble finding a 5-bolt 94BCD chainring - I can't afford Stridsland and didn't want to go with the Atelier Medium knockoffs.

Managed to find this after some Googling - https://pq-bike.com/collections/94bcd/pr­oducts/pass-quest-110-bcd-5-bolt-oval-na­rrow-wide-chainring-%E7%9A%84%E5%89%AF%E­6%9C%AC

Doesn't seem like a scam (has AliExpress and Tabao stores) plus I paid with PayPal just to be sure. It's been shipped, will see what's what.

It's arrived! Fairly decent shipping speed and looks good too. Included bolts too which was nice.

Some wild chinglish on the instructions too!

"under the fine tune, the variable speed, the success"

A lifetime of love