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Yeah that's the same seller, same frame. Generally accurate description, the part about the "fork tube" is not well put -- there's no fork, and the head tube is actually quite short at ~85mm, which is a good thing, it's gonna be hard to find a fork that won't work, which I think is the point he...

Those cleaned up well. The hunt is better than the kill. Got the 230 for like ten bucks from a bike flipper who is knowledgeable, but burned out I guess, and also I suspect wifey is in the "get this stuff out of my garage NOW" mode. Very little brake wear. The 231 was included in a giant...

Hm. There's not enough diet coke in the world to deal with that rust spot, there are some really deep pits. OTOH it looks like the lowers are going to buff up nicely. For me, I would rather look good than to feel good... coming up with a parts list with the good Dr. That head tube is kind of...

^oh yes

Dying to figure out a way to put these on my FRM build but wanted to post these up in case anyone is doing a Be Active resto. I'll hang on to them for a while so don't hesitate to hit me up even after this post has aged. I think this needs to be a Karma thing; they were gifted to me by a very...

Not much info on the interwebs about this frame, most of it right here. Thread on this specific frame here. Here is a brief blurb about the Columbus product line by the fine folks at vintage-steel.com, who are helping me source some really nice Campy rims (with the present challenge being, to...

The challenge is to build this and all this ...into a bike of some sort. Got a good deal on the frame, which has evidently been sitting in a warehouse for the last 20 some odd years. Columbus genius tubing, appears to be silver brazed. Figured I would do an interactive build, as I'm still...

Those old bikes have just amazing bleeding-edge graphics. We see them through eyes more or less used to looking at psychedelic Day-Glo Kleins... think about how out-there this kinda stuff was, in the days of 80's "autumn" palettes. Crazy

Hm. Says "Direct Drive" on the chainstay. I have a rusty old late-90s rockhopper in the back yard; from what I've been able to gather, "DD" was their brand of chromoly. Forks and frames were cromo, stays were hi-ten Kind of a tank but seems like it would be a great city bike and an even...

They found another pair. I started to get them but silver will go better

Still one set of gold vbrakes left, and a 90mm carbon stem

Soma has beautiful forks but current lineup is suspension corrected. Marino is Peruvian, which I thought was cool

Off the shelf? Carver -- supposedly a P2 clone, they say it's chromoly. I plan to buy one soon, I'll review here if that would help Dimension -- all things considered if I were going with this design I'd prefer vintage but hear what you're saying about steerer tube. At least it's not hideously...

Update -- They have one set of CU2 cranks left, not totally clear what the price is. Also some spiders I believe these cranks use a 25mm spindle. Finding (or modifying) a bottom bracket could be a challenge, but dang. This is some nice gear

What chainrings are you using? Those old Marz forks are cool. At the time I didn't know anything about mtb forks (and still don't) but had tuned a couple of vintage motorcycle suspensions; funny thing is, the Marz forks are basically little teeny motorcycle forks. Made sense to me! I...

MOMBAT to the rescue... Greek alphabet was 1990. I've kinda been looking at the suntour xc pro hubs, there's a bunch on eBay right now. Seems like people either love or hate em. They sound well-engineered tho

I came across some NOS campagno mtb rims -- a set of Mirox and a set of Alfa XL I believe Mirox is mid-90s vintage, no? What's the story on the Alfas? What hubs would you consider for either?