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My Serotta is getting a rebuild wit some Syncros parts and a good clean and polish





!! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! pics but you get the idea... Really would like to go full Xtr I think...

My Surly 1x1, frame and a few other parts bought 2nd hand, I had the rest, a few hours in the workstand and bingo another bike.

My new Giant Anthem X2 2012, Cost me $1,700. Very happy with it. Super soft coming from a hard tail

Changed the fork to rigid, carbon wrapped alloy. Loads of fun but it sure attracts a lot of attention.

Looks even better than the original build, i had a set of plain ally Mosso forks on my XC bike for a while, nice and solid, especially for the price.

Finally finished it, going off the date codes about 1991, Deore DX derailleurs, Deore cranks, couldn't find any more appropriate forks so some late 90s Manitous had to do. Can't wait to see how it rides.

Canti rear and v brakes up front ldrcycles? I thought the pull ratio difference would make the braking sketchy assuming the levers are the same.

The levers are the original ones, which were cantis front and rear but both brakes feel fine .

ldrcycles wrote:The levers are the original ones, which were cantis front and rear but both brakes feel fine .

V-Brake levers pull a lot more cable than canti type levers (which are the same ratio as road levers, or close enough). You can make a v-brake lever work well enough with a cantilever brake by playing with the yoke cable (not ideal, but well enough), but the other way (canti type lever pulling v-brakes) I wouldn't have thought the lever would pull far too much cable to make it work effectively - it'd feel like a rock but the actual stopping power would be very weak. Still, if it works, let it be I suppose. otherwise it's a neat looking frame, It looks like you can remove the chain without breaking it due to the way the chain stays are joined further up the seat tube.

2012 Run-out Anthem X Advanced SL1 - too cheap to say no to.

No points for guessing where the photo was taken.

Really impressed with the whole outfit, so much easier to point than my 29er hardtail, full XT kit is sweet, brakes are superb. I am still slow, but not the bikes fault.

Changed to Tubeless (stole the front Nobby Nic off the other half's RZ-140) and the Prologo seat as I find the Fiziks to be quite nasty on my butt.

My first bike since high school =)

Hi folks.
Here's my 1989 Mongoose IBOC Team.
I used to have one BITD when I was a courier in Melb many moons and a few kilo's added since then.
I bought off eBay for what I think was a bargain. A few bits are non original, but for now they do the job.






Cheers
Alan

Mmm red and black. And matching helmet too!

Some really cool old school stuff popping up in this thread.. very nice IBOC, E-Stay Apollo.. and that Serotta... awwwwwwwww

This is my current 29" SS project.. 2003 (ish) Slingshot Big-Shot

Cool slingshot. I could dig out my old Syncros Hammer & Cycle jersey with Slingshot sponsorship on it to ride that.

Slow6 wrote:This is my current 29" SS project.. 2003 (ish) Slingshot Big-Shot

Are those skinwall tyres available new? What is the model name?

They are Kenda Karma Tyres.. OEM on a Charge bike a while ago. Searched everywhere for a set and ended up buying these second hand from a chap in the UK.


one more for the search list eh

Mugglechops wrote:Cool slingshot. I could dig out my old Syncros Hammer & Cycle jersey with Slingshot sponsorship on it to ride that.

So.... very.... cool

My (great) Scott Spark...

Slow6 wrote:

Mugglechops wrote:Cool slingshot. I could dig out my old Syncros Hammer & Cycle jersey with Slingshot sponsorship on it to ride that.

So.... very.... cool

It was cool when I bought it in 1994

Soon to be my new ride

That head tube is teeeeensy!! Should look really good when it's all built up.

ldrcycles wrote:That head tube is teeeeensy!! Should look really good when it's all built up.

And this is an XL frame too!! takes a mixed-taper headset so it has an external bottom cup to add about 7mm. Should be built up by mid January. Will keep updating!

This thread needs sticky'd

In the mean time, picked this up a few days ago.

Jamis Trail X3, for when I cant be bother clipping in to the road bike