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You guys seem to have much better used prices across the pond.

My son recently moved up from a 24" to a 26" bike. We took all the parts off my dad's old bike and restored a old Klein frame for him to use. I'm hoping to keep him on this bike for at least a year (until he grows big enough to fit into a size S bike) then we can start looking at the newer...

Join the Girvin Vector/crosslink club. They were 1" threadless steerered.

Realized I posted a '98 bike on the Pre-97 forums. :facepalm: But they started making this in 96 so that counts right? :lol:

Saw a Rocky Mountain Element Race pop up for sale cheap. Needs a few bits to get her riding but the frame, wheels, and fork looks to be in good condition and it has some nice aftermarket bits on her. I'm considering giving the guy a call to go take a look at it but it's a good hour drive away...

Doneish. Rear derailleur probably needs to be replaced. Brake housing I used on the rear is terrible and really needs to be replaced. Son loves it.

Used body filler to fill in a couple of small dents. The largest bring in the middle of the top tube. A couple of coats of primer, several coast of base, and several coats of matte clear coat later. Hopefully I didn't just kill a big patch of grass in my yard :lol: Using my wife's...

Used Airplane stripper and the paint came right off easy peasy. There is a ding on the tip tube you can make out in the picture I'm going to fill in with body filler. Will sand and hopefully get the primer coat on when I get home from work. Using Rustoleum Aluminum primer. I've never used it...

Re: Ooooh.... I just realized no Canti hanger on the rear :D So I guess I'll be switching to Vs on the rear. I'll swap out his LX shifter and brake lever combo for a set of Altus 7 speed pods and tektro V brakes from another bike until I get a suitable replacement.

Swapping the front to a Magura hydraulic rim brake because I snagged a new one on ebay for $30. Rear is staying with the cantis.

Right now my son is riding on my dad's old Raleigh M50. The seatpost was frozen solid and my dad really buggered up the seat tube trying to get it out and it sat with part of a seat post in the seat tube for a dozen years. My son started really getting into riding and while we were over at my...

Merlin Newsboy

Litespeed Unicoi from the late 90's. That and the Merlin Newsboy were the two bikes I wanted most back then.

I approve of the chosen Gruppo.

My son wants to keep his Vector 2 on his bike but the stem with the built in upper link mount is just way too long for him. Seeing if I can piece anything together to get it to fit better. Possibly an upper link mount and longer 1" steerer from a newer Girvin/Noleen fork might work. Just a...

Re: Since someone mentioned 3rd hand tool... Instead of a 3rd hand tool I would always adjust the barrel adjuster on the lever 3/4 of the way out before I set the pads. Then install the pads right up against the rim how you want them to contact. Adjust the barrel adjuster in to get the...

Love it. Those internally routed cables have housings in the inside or are you going to have to try to feed that cable through?

Original post here for more details on my Wheeler. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=205694 In the mid to late 90's my dad and I used to bike together quite a bit. He fell in love with the sport and always wished he had found mountain biking eariler. He bought himself a pretty entry spec Raleigh M50 and I...

Does anyone make some sort of vinyl bicycle wrap you can install on the bike which will preserve the original paint while allowing you to modify the color?

IMHO you really need to ghost the whole bike and make it a theme of the bike for white tires to look good. Like the Klein the previous poster posted. They just always seem "off" when put on a non-white themed bike.