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Some updates: I ended up buying the Ritchey Ascent Comp! The holiday break gave me plenty of time to work on it. The biggest task was cleaning the frame and fork. The previous owner had it stored next to his workbench, where he worked a lot with resin and silicone. What looked like dirt was...

I'm tempted to buy an old Ritchey Ascent Comp that has been listed for a while on Marketplace near where I live. The seller is asking way too much for it, hence why it has not sold yet. However, he is willing to lower its price. The thing is, I don't know much about this model. I've always...

I just got home from picking up this 1992 Rocky Mountain Vertex. Handbuilt in Canada, the only year the Vertex didn't have an aluminium frame! I actually bought it a few weeks ago from a guy on Marketplace, but needed to find the time to make the 2 hour drive to pick it up... It's officially...

Here's another very special find from my neck of the wood, an early Rocky Mountain Wedge (likely from 1988-1989). I would have loved to grab this fillet brazed gem, but unfortunately, it was way too small for me (17" according to the owner)... I love the livery, it reminds me of the 1991...

Last summer, while browsing Marketplace searching for a project, I found an ad listing a few bikes for free. Most of them were cheap, entry level bikes, but one of them captured my attention. It appears to be a Brodie with a second top tube, something I had not yet seen. It looks rough, but...

I stumbled on a very interesting Marketplace listing a couple of weeks ago. I’m fairly confident that this is a legitimate 1997 Kona Caldera. Made in the USA in very low numbers for a year only! As a Kona fan, I would have loved to snag it, but it was hours away from home and it sold very...

A few weeks ago, I used all of my luck for the year by finding this 1991/1992 GT Zaskar for cheap locally The only thing is, this cheap price came with a big asterisk... Not only is this Zaskar very tired looking, but basically every single part on it is not original. Even the fork has been...

I decided to create this thread to document the restoration process of my 1986 Rocky Mountain Blizzard. It won't be a real-time thread; I restored it about 3 years ago and have made some small modifications to it from time to time up until very recently. It all started with this ad, consisting...

My next project will be this lovely 1991 GT Karakoram with the iconic "Blue Widow" paint job. The guy I bought this bike from used it as a daily commuter for years, so it is far from spotless! Hopefully, it can continue to be somebody else's commuter for many more years after I'm done. I...

This is technically not a MTB, but close! Let me know if this is the wrong place to post this thread. I found this 1992 Specialized S-Works Cross earlier this summer on Marketplace. Having never heard of this model, I started by ignoring the Facebook ad simply titled "hybrid bike". However...

Hi all, This will be a job for the Kona nerds! I just bought what I though was a Kona Explosif on Kijiji for almost nothing! I just finished to remove the parts, now only the frame remains. There are many red flags which make me believe that might not an Explosif like I originally though...