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Recently built a couple of bikes with 1x9 and 1x10 CUES, really great shifting under pressure. 10s would be my choice personally. All the range you need and lots of cassette options, plus the claimed durability improvements are a big bonus on a bike that does lots of miles.

It stands for Creating Unique ExperienceS, which is … interesting.

Looking forward to seeing the build. Love a clandestine, used to be made local to me so I’ve seen a couple in the flesh. Great looking bikes and very well made.

Cheers, yeah definitely not lightweight. It rides great, and good condition paint too!

Stumpjumper sold.

Trek now £75. Also has a new sealed bearing bottom bracket and headset.

Bump

Trek now £85

Stumpjumper £90

Both come with a Bottom Bracket.

Photos in the wrong order. Here’s the Trek Built up, and the worst ding on the Stumpy.

Selling two 26inch Frames as I have too much stuff and not enough space.

First up is this ~1995 Trek Mountain Track 850 in a nice deep green. Like new Tange Sealed Bearing headset. Forks are 1 1/8 threaded. Built it up but sadly it’s too small for me.

Seat Tube is 50cm (19.5in) C-T
Top Tube is 57.5cm C-C

£90

Second is this Specialized Stumpjumper M2FS frame only from 1994. Super light ‘duralcan’ aluminium tubing. Used but good condition FSA Sealed bearing headset (bearings feel great). Takes a 1 1/8 threadless fork. Being an ‘FS’ frame, this would have originally had a suspension fork with, I’m assuming around 80mm travel. I was using a rigid Kona P2 fork with 410mm Axle-Crown and it felt great. You could go for a longer A-C fork, but not shorter as I think it would upset the handling.

Seat Tube is 53cm (22in) C-T
Top Tube is 57cm C-C.

Cosmetically it’s a little ropey, has some dings here and there. Derailleur hanger is clearly not the right one, but I had it working. Ideally the right one should be tracked down.

£100

Both frames collection on in Bristol BS7.

Happy to answer questions via DM.

Thanks

Awful. RIP Adam. Best wishes to friends and family.

They’re no really doing much no. Just extra protection. I’ve taken the sleeves off of Hollowtech 2 MTB bottom brackets to fit in 68mm frames and had no issues.

If your frame has a cutout underneath the BB shell as part of the design (I’ve seen that on some retro steel frames) then I’d run one, but that’s it.

That’s absolutely lovely!

Messaged RE: cinelli genius tubing frame

Dibs on the Ultegra 6500 brakes pls!

This thread is a great read, looks lovely. If the tank you’ve won one eBay is a no go, then a tank that mounts differently would be a really cool option I think.

This is amazing! Love the string alignment. Though I do ageee that it might be quite noodly, that may increase the fun factor?

Thanks @Maj and @launchpadboi ! It will be used for both city rambling and bridleways too. There’s a lot of good off road routes around my area - I’m yet to get out on a longer ride on it though, will get better photos when I do ❤️

Thank you, it’s great fun! I’m sure the lava dome is going to be lush.

Stumpjumper Construction is complete.

Drivetrain is transferred over from the Orange P7 project, 12s Deore Mech with an 11sp SLX shifter - works great.

The BLB Big Smoke bars are amazing. Need a shorter stem though.

I’m chuffed with it!

Currently I have two functional bikes and that’s it. I’m sure I’ll need to scratch the itch of building something again at some point, but I’m resting and taking it steady at the moment.

❤️

That’s lush.

Excellent choice. Good friend of mine also has a 130i, he’s really pleased with it and says it the best all round car he’s ever had!

How did you get on with the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy?

Much the same with me - only things that seem to help are rest, good quality sleep and good food.

Right, it’s probably time I updated this then.

Both of these projects have taken a little longer than expected. Some of you may have seen me posting in the ‘Long Covid’ thread over the last year or so, which has taken an impact on how I interact with bikes. I can’t really ride at the moment. A super small spin to the local park is about all I can manage, which has been pretty rough to reckon with, but I’m hoping through pacing, rest and healing I can get back somewhere close to where I was.

Instead, I’ve been taking time to enjoy the process of building bikes instead of riding them. Specialized is also complete, pending some finishing touches, and some proper photos.

The Raleigh is done, and has been returned to my Dad for use as his pub bike. The horizontal dropouts and lack of mech hanger meant it was really suited to being Single Speed. I first tried a test with the 5spd freewheel and a friction shifter, but in the end a spare 38T chainring and a 16T Freewheel meant making it SS was much easier and simple. It rides very nicely with the wide moto bars.

What’s the name of the body shop? Sounds like a great place.

New freewheel from SJS and a second hand mech from a friend means the drivetrain is good to go, minus chain the chain.

The chain stays did need some minor crimping with some vice grips and an 8mm socket to get the 2.0 tyre to fit (bolt on mech hanger means the wheel is slightly more forward in the dropouts). Blue paint is all I had to hand to protect it and I tried to um … artistically fade it into along the inside of the stays.

I’d like to say future plans may involve painting, but considering the goal is a functioning klunker inspired bike for a cheaply as possible that’s probably not going to happen.

I usually spend lots of time fussing over individual component choice when building a bike for myself - it’s been quite nice not not doing that this time.

New bars are quite different to the old ones!

The shim arrived to bring the bars up to 25.4, I had to cut it down it’s length into two sections as it couldn’t slide it down the bars in one piece.

Also rear dropout spacing is 120mm. It also doesn’t have any rear brake bosses or cable guides. My friend thinks this is because it was originally designed for a coaster brake? Unsure …

It’s gonna be 1x5 as a 7sp freewheel needs a 126mm spacing and I’d need a new wheel/add spacers and re dish it. Also got a shifter. It’s a Suntour one with a built in cable stop which is handy.

Can confirm the top tube is definitely not the best place for a shifter, but the downtube is too thick and I can’t really modify the bracket to mount it on the bars and use it as a thumb shifter like I originally intended!

Real

This is how I felt after servicing my hub today

Had a spare hour after work and sorted the front hub. It was super rough and had some play. Took it all apart, cleaned all the bearings (after dropping them on the floor, of course). Cups and cones were in great condition considering age thankfully!

Also found a 2.2 Continental Tyre for the front. I’ll keep the 2.0 Bontrager one for the rear.

An order has been made from SJS Cycles to get some chainring bolts, some cable guides and the shim - should be here soon and hopefully I’ll have it all together shortly so I can resume with the Stumpjumper!

I also gave the P7 frame (the one with the hole in) to my old manager which is nice. The replacement I bought (the one that’s too small for me) is stowed away for a project in the distant future.

Current Projects

1. This 1988 Raleigh Maverick
   
2. The 1994 Specialized Stumpjumper M2