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Yeah, I know.. and you aren’t wrong

It’s always such a shame to see bikes of this quality in that state. One day, a long time ago, someone made the conscious decision to upgrade to Vs, stick on a set of Mach 5s and an I beam.. They must have been “into” mountain bikes, rather than just looking for a bike to ride. Then...

Interestingly, it is a Marin, just not that particular one..

A replica? In a factory sealed box? Hmmm..

What happens if the parts are never assembled in the factory, but just sit in the box, along with the frameset, unbuilt, for a couple of decades - only to be built by me, 30 years later? Cos I have one of those.

So, let me understand this. A bike entirely built from new old stock parts, that is never ridden, can only be deemed a new old stock bike if it was the manufacturer (i.e. some minimum wage dude in Taiwan, employed by a third party factory) that bolted all the new parts onto it? If anyone other...

Don’t even set the gears up on full NOS builds, much less ride ‘em

A NOS bike is everything NOS. The whole thing. If I chose then to sell that bike, and so long as it was built but not ridden, I am, theoretically, comfortable in referring to it as a NOS bike. However, as I never sell my builds, it is all a bit academic for me

I would respectfully say, yes.. I’ve been lucky enough to get my paws on a few NOS frames over the years and have scoured this place for “NOS” components, better (and safer) yet, BNIB.. and built an NOS bike or two. Still Never ridden any of them, not even down the street. So.. the bikes are...

The true definition of NOS depends on whether one is buying or selling..

Pictures aren’t great, and the bike has an air of neglect about it. No idea what the drive side looks like, the state of those forks etc. Could be a bargain… but everything else says caveat emptor

I’ve had a quick look on eBay. The bikes at the upper end (say c.£800), tend to be earlier SV 2000 types, with full polished frames and carbon swing arms… to my eye anyway, these are the most collectible from a retro perspective (though few people here seem to). The sine qua non of Super Vs must...

There seems to be a fairly low level of love for Cannondale on rb, as I have remarked on before. When I was young, a state of the art mountain bike was a Super V in my head. It was so wild looking vs the average Joe Raleigh MTBs that predominated amongst my peers.. Annnnyway. I digress. If...

Ever reflect on how many of the aforementioned bikes have just been taken down the dump and recycled, as worthless old tat in the last 30 odd years? Must be a fair few.

Thank you very much - for what it’s worth, I have been spending Father’s Day with my mother.. her 70th bday.. and we’re spending it here (gold star if you recognise the hill):

That’s a cool build. I have a set of Controltechs in a box waiting for a specific build

Nice build. Carambas?

Should go nicely with the NOS Tioga DD elsewhere on RB..

Sensational. Would be a brave LBS mechanic..

Jees. That is going high.