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Ive rediscovered part of my youth this last 7 months it seems, having got into riding pump tracks, it reminds my of when I used to be down at my local skate park most evenings when I should have been doing homework. Locating and riding new pump tracks has been great at developing my daughters' riding skills, my youngest can fluidly roll most of the way round a small local one on her balance bike, my eldest is starting to really push and pump her way round some of the more technical ones even though she's barely school age. I've been steadily improving too, though a mid 40's body isn't quite as responsive as it once used to be. Oddly I'm alternating between riding my 26" HT and my 20" wheel folding bike(!), the folder is almost better suited, but then it is probably closest to a BMX with the seat dropped right down. We had loads of fun at the Bristol Brunel Way track a couple of days ago, I just love how much fun riding you can have in such a confined space.

I thought I'd start a thread as I couldn't see an existing one on here, and there is bound to be some others on here that can share some experience.!

Very nice, look forward to seeing this.

Looking good. Which model Wald is that?

Don't ask, don't get. I wish you the best of luck in getting what you want out of this. As another 70s bungalow owner I have many ambitions for extending up in the future. I've just spent the last few years bringing the current living space up to relatively modern standards, but without doing anything too short sighted that would prevent future enhancements. I'm definitely going to follow this for inspiration and tips.

This Panasonic looks awesome, yours?

That'll be the reflector bracket. Pretty sure you can get away without it in there, headset still tightens down ok.

The previous owner must have been a really lanky t-rex, judging by the saddle and bar position. Unless that's how you've set it up?
Great starting place anyway. The Mori headsets are pretty funky inside with self adjusting coil springs and toothed races, but are usually still servicable.

V cool

Havn't seen one of them, but then I probably wouldn't unless it had BR(W) or GWR inscribed.

Very cool. Needs moar fork leg braze-ons, you could get at least 3 manything cages on each side.

How about Sim Works getaround? They are wide, and give a better hand position while preserving the reach. I like mine on my old Rockhopper.

Would that be a Pandrol point clip hammer?! I think these tough old couriers would fare well still if you were to slip . . .

There is a lot of good info online ref suntour freewheel spacing, assuming that is what you have? I thought New Winner 6 and ultra 7 used the same body, therefore spacer size reduced to get the 7th cog on? If so removing one won't work, you need to re-space to 6s (non ultra).

What spare freewheels do you have?

That just took me over a minute staring at the pic to work out what he did. Good skills. Cool bike too

Bloody hell that is lovely, right size too. Really can't justify another. . . .

Frame width will be your limiting factor for gearing, they are 126mm wide. You can still find good wide range freewheels ie 13-30, or the other option is to fit a shimano Uniglide rear hub with a 7 UG cassette. You could then index a shimano system. Suntour spacing is different again (and there are 3 sub variants) so you'd need the matching shifters and mech for freewheel. The xt mech you have will obviously be friction at the mo, can't see how you could index it other than go UG. I actually have a NOS DX MT63 126mm solid axle hub that you can have for £20 if you wanted to go down that path? I can't see how 8s would work unless you cold set the frame to 130mm and fitted a Hyperglide road hub.

Wasn't the Arrowhead the entry level alu frame? Seems odd to have lots of M950 on it if so. Looks cool though

I'm pretty sure that is an '87. It has the look of an '86 from the bars, but I think it's an 87 because: the bottle cage bosses are further down the down tube, it has 87 correct parts (stem, 983 cantis, logo'd hubs). The shifters are 86 spec suntour LD4700s but they are good. The bar is not original as the riser on an '86 is 22.2mm clamp dia. Your stem means the bar is aftermarket ('86 models had a 4 bolt faceplate bmx like Win stem).
Does it have paw print pantographs at the top of the seat stays? They appeared on 87 frames.

You can get repro Bullmoose bars from PX, I think there are two types. Be aware new ones dont have cable stops. They sometimes come up on eBay, I had a saved search on eBay for a couple of years, and specifically wanted an original 80s Nitto one, and didnt think twice when one did come up. There are a couple for sale in the states at the mo if you could stomach that?

Ps think you're right 're mixte option, but even they had differences to the regular bikes. My old dear had one from new also but sadly sold it some 10 years ago.

Great to see another one rescued! Subbed, looking forward to seeing this evolve. That is 4 of us that i know of now that have 87 couriers on here, it would almost be worth a meet up and ride out, if we weren't all so spread out. . .

Interesting. I always thought the chainstay clearance was too narrow on a 700c Straggler to run 650b x 47s, might need to go wheel shopping.

After going through a phase looking more like this: I still have all these parts so it might change back again when I get bored.

I wouldn't have gone so far as to call it rags, but it was 33 years old and needed tlc. A lot of decreasing and polishing later, plus a few choice enhancements now leaves me with this:

My other long standing project was my muddy fox courier. This is as I picked up what is now my current build, this being the only photo from the ebay ad:

Then converted it to drops:

Initially cleaned it up and built it as a flat bar town bike: