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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?

^word Welp, it looks better than it did a couple of hours ago, I guess. May have to make this my gator bike. You know, sort of a swamp buggy concept. Already have one fancy-schmancy build in the queue. One of those is enough. Will admit, this color scheme could be good camoflage. Long...

So that's a spinner fork on there now. My thinking is, close enough. I even wonder if Spinner wasn't supplying forks to Trek in that mid-90's period? I *may* try to polish up the finish, but it's pretty grim in person... Velocals is getting out of the bicycle decal business as of yesterday...

More pics. Seller is out till end of jan

Link Seller says it comes in a box prominently marked "spindle needs tapped." He doesn't know what that means, but notes the pinch bolts are missing, so maybe that's what needs to be tapped. I'd take a chance on it if I had some hope of sourcing a left crank arm, or if I had a drill press...

Headtube 85x30mm Seat tube 27.2 Spacing 135 Chainstay 419mm Seat tube (center-top) 17 1/2 inches No fork Mostly shiny, a bit of surface corrosion especially around the cable guides. I don't have a scale but it feels SUPER light BB is 68mm, interestingly Looks like they used silver solder...

Frame is here, am headed out to look at it. Won't be able to mess with it for a couple of weeks due to work sched so if anybody has any questions or needs measurements or stuff let me know

What do you think about Caswell's anodize touch up kit? Anybody using it?

Out of gold skewers. Still have "some" brakes left but out of gold levers. Only cranks they have are what's pictured.

Shipped, expected arrival in Feb, I'll update soon as it gets here Radavist had a thing or two to say about clear coat over raw... Yeah I think #3 -> #2 may be the call

Either way. The red and green would be translucent top coats, just depends on whether I do a chrome base layer or just polish up the steel. Problem with clear coat is, it may not start out as a ratbike but it'll become one quickly (and we live on the bay, so, very quickly) In my mind, this...