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Nice bike

1 X 12, if it works!

Here we go. dinner plate, haters gonna hate!

Fully agree. Great to see these bikes get the respect they deserve. My daughters bike is a humble 89 fire mountain, and it stands up for sure

Outstanding work. And top marks for putting the love into a Lava Dome.

Okay, starting to come together now

Crown race installed, no slips!

Modern drive train, cheaper than retro gear these days!

More stash

Some bits arrived today

Very cool. Top work

I pretty much karmaed all my retro stash a few weeks ago, save for a bikes worth of Deore MT60, plus a bit of m730, and a few other bits and bobs. However, I've just bought a SRAM NX 12 speed set up, so will give that a whirl for the drivetrain, with XT cantis for stopping. Not sure if it's a...

Trek matrix stem often used on this as part of standard build. Lovely bike and your build sounds ace. Look forward to seeing it develop

Very nice frameset. Love this era of Roberts. Was the downtube decal there or did you add it? Looks like you have a nice clean build planned to let the frameset shine, as it should do!

That's really cool

Nice bike, your mechanic was being friendly, ride it, enjoy it. Don't worry about it!

Here's the bill from Woodrups if anyone's interested

However, there are a few other bits I need or could do with ideally just to make life easier, basically a 130 oln rear wheel, chainset and bottom bracket, 27mm seat post. I have all these things but they are on other builds etc so bit of a pain to keep shipping stuff around. So if anyone spots...

I've got pretty much everything I need to do some kind of build. Reusing what I can. However, first issue is the headset. Had a good look at it tonight and the top cup is slightly damaged. Potentially could use it but might result in there always being play. Any other part I'd give it a go...

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