Marin Team Titanium, Stumpjumper Comp: obsolete 90’s toss and a Stayer

A second wheelset for this with big knobbly tyres for now...

Complete bike as-is weighs just over 8.9Kg according to a shite set of luggage scales, which corresponds to the embarrassing spreadsheet containing all the actual component weights via a decent kitchen scale.

Could easily lose a couple of hundred grams by chopping the end off the 410mm seatpost, lighter BB/stem/rotors etc but all the bits are exactly what I imagined from the start now and it’s plenty light enough.

Was mildly addictive picking bits & taking mass into consideration... Can see how unfortunate souls get sucked into the weenie vortex now.

This is such a cool bike. Well done. Every new picture makes me like it more. I looked at those handlebars and couldnt justify, but think they really work so well on that older geo.

I am also a long term Hope brake user. I agree, their service is fantastic value as you get back a new brake working perfectly for the £45 or whatever it costs now.

Hmmm I have an On One Lynskey Ti29er frame hanging on the wall. Tempted to do something similar...

Under 9kg is pretty impressive! And building another wheelset seems more sensible than starting another project right away :)

Could you tell us what is the purple seat binder bolt? That type looks like it would work well on one of my bikes.

[ edit. I just spotted that you gave the information later in post
https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/148985/ ]

It appears to be an Odyssey Svelte 3DV seat binder bolt.

Thanks! Love the warm & fuzzies. Deffo build up your Lynskey.

Love riding this thing so much, it's such a hoot everywhere I've taken it with the boingy tyres and massive bars. Most fun I've had on any bike.

The Hope brake refurb is a bargain as you say, and it's confidence-inspiring that they still keep spares for and rebuild basically all their brakes regardless of age. These are my first Hope brakes, but won't be the last.

@Sig_Arlecchino Yep, already got something brewing so I can take this thing through the mucky slop. Then just a Ti cage and frame/bar bags for day trips and it'll be complete.

A few more turnipcam pics for new page:

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Wow, really really beautiful. Such a great build 🔥

Turned out proper fantastic! Love the attention to detail, and the whoel geometry looks amazing.

Incredible build. Looks like it was as much fun to build as it is to ride.

Thanks!

Yeah, this was way more exciting to build than anything else I've tried, with the Ti disc tabs, the hunt for the unicorn RC31 fork, the elusive now-rare rims and the crabon bars which landed at just the right time.

I think I rode past you earlier today out by the canal round Tottenham. Very nice indeed!

crabon bars

Wait, what?! Those bars are carbon?!

Ha, yeah, I dragged my recalcitrant daughter to the Wetlands on her slightly-too-small Frog bike. Don’t think I breached 5mph all day. She needs to up her game tbqf.

@nefarious Yep, they’re ‘Whisky Milhouse’ crabon moto bars. They’re perfect for this, loads of rise & backsweep, almost a third of the weight of something like a Surly Sunrise. One of the few bits that I splashed out on for this, most of the rest were second-hand bargains.

This build is insane! Nice level of detail, howcome no to the Nitto bars?

Not enough instagram points.

Rumbled, fml.

#Nittos didn’t arrive from @Japan till 2 weeks after I’d finished this so I panicked & had to buy a meaningless shiny trinket to take photos of & attempt to validate my vain, hollow husk of an existence. Even my 7yo daughter’s like “m8 ur bike looks like a tin of quality street wiv all the good ones taken out”.

So sick. They really suit the build IMO (I always loved moto bars like that), and knowing they're carbon is just that little bit extra.

Got given an old tub of freaky horse moisturiser by my fiancé’s mum. This shit works wonders on leather; instantly made the scuffed & slightly ratty Flite as-new.

With the added bonus that it now hums like a Glaswegian chip shop...

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old tub of freaky horse moisturiser

Made of horses or made for horses?!!

Probably both.

The musk is enough to turn Jordan Peterson’s daughter vegan.

The musk is enough to turn Jordan Peterson’s daughter vegan.

Lol would rep.

Fitted new Hope ‘road’ floating rotors. The original, used, 2004 Hope rotors that I got with the brakes were much better after truing but for some reason still didn’t feel as good as my crippling, life-destroying OCD would allow. These new ones feel perfect after bedding-in, and are ~30g lighter for the pair.

Also swapped the 410mm seatpost for a 330mm one (the old one’s getting used for another build), for a ~80g weight saving including the rotors.

Managed to strip the threads on one of the cute vintage 3DV skewers; they may match the 3DV ano on the rest of the bike but are evidently made of compacted horse hair.

Replaced with a Halo skewer and nut off a Hope, which has a serrated steel collar so as to bite into the braked-side dropout and negate any chance of the axle shifting under hard braking. This setup happily takes 9Nm torque.

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New rotors looking great. Shame about the original skewers, but the new ones seem fit the colour perfectly.

What great looking build!

Does it smell like horse?

hums like a Glaswegian chip shop...