All Dead Brands can get rebuilt - Lahar, Brooklyn, Yeti, Dialled and others.

Very cool!

many, many years ago i posted a lahar in the anti porn thread, i have aged, seen the error of my ways, become wiser ! ( some may disagree ) and re thought my life. what an idiot i was 13 years ago.

Great series! I guess you kept a 26" on the back? I hadn't realised Michelin were still making DH tyres in that size.

Great series of videos there. Love all the dual crown forks hanging in the back ground.

I thought I recognised you, felt sure we’d met before, couldn’t place it. I wondered if we’d met back in peak Glasgowfgss days but just realised this morning that we chatted in queen street station a couple of years ago at the wee coffee stall.
I’d noticed there was a really nice bike(can’t for the life of me remember what it was now) behind the stall and it turned out to be yours.
I think it’s was a really nice retro jump bike maybe? Must have been you?

I was forced too, couldn't have got 27.5 in it and getting a new rear end made in say steel would have changed the way the bike works so kept it.

Yeah that was someone I use to be friends with coffee cart(dont go there he doesnt pay his bills) that I helped out.

You're talking about my Yeti DJ which I still have although I cannot mind the last time it turned a wheel.

Its like a fine wine, people have realised with age how good it is.

Great video.

Can we have one of you sending it next?

Have heard some unsavoury things about that guy…

Aye, hadn’t realised there’s photos of it a couple pages back. It was the single crown shivers that caught my eye. The coolest looking forks of all time.

Do you have any build planned around the og Dorado forks?
I fantasize about building a 2000’s specialized FSR DH with x-vert forks…

I’ve actually got 3 pairs of them.

One for a Yeti DH9
One for a Schwinn Straight 8
And I actually don’t know about the last one might sell them!

Specialised seem quite common for people doing an old bike they x verts carry a decent price now as there ain’t many good sets left!

Schwinn Straight 8

Ooof right up my strasse

Uch I’m not sure I’d ever really commit the money to an fsr dh. Was my dream bike when I was 14.

I used to see a guy on an fsr dh in Glasgow around 2000-02, often seen him in the Kelvingrove boosting off the steep verges off the main path. He was always in casual clothing and no helmet.

Not the push shock ones the newer ones. That are still 20 years old now 😂

Haha! So it’s the one with the same rear suspension lay out as the dh9?!
Funny, it’s all coming back to me now, Schwinn and Yeti were made in the same factory or owned by the same people back then?

I feel like that era really was the golden era of downhill, like the dawn of proper long travel downhill bikes. Feels like yesterday.

Yeah they look the same, but also before then there was pull shock variations, I don’t think they were but they did both license the lawill rear ends from Mert Lawill!

Yeah the early 2000s was when it all started coming through proper.

Now we need some slow motion footage of the Lahar going down a trail.

This plz^

New video, not as interesting as the previous ones but another one to add to the numbers.

Turning a Pelicase into the Ultimate Socket Set with Shadow Foam

https://youtu.be/6B-ZtEJjVQU

Saw this on FB market place a while back and screen shotted it but forgot to post here.

It seems to have gone now but whoever bought it gotta lotta bike in VGC for their money.

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