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There’s no reason to believe CUES will outlast alivio. I have alivio derailleurs and shifters older than my marriage. My Yamaha e-bike comes with an alivio casette and that’s a 250w mid-drive 25kg bike. If you pair a 34t front with a 11-36 casette you’ll be spinning for days.

Picked 2 of them up so far this November, the 89 rockhopper (top, obvs) is a beach city rust bucket and has me worried. The ‘98 rockhopper FS (bottom, obvs) will be a kid’s birthday gift next year and I’m excited to build a Taiwan bike for a half Taiwanese rider. Thinking maybe fox forks and...

Pic 1 is gorgeous, but why CUES? And not just a standard Alivio 9 speed? I just got a Rockhopper a couple of years older and I'm just sticking to the standard deore 9 speed bits.

Thanks bud, now I gotta go find a “‘MIT” repro sticker like the ones I used to have on the steel stumpies.

Does anyone know if it’s Japan or Taiwan? And if either, which factory/company? I figure all you erudite folks would know! TIA

apologies, i was dumb, read that as front "brake" not front derailleur. My team marin uses "Fuji ultralight" triple butted tubing, is the Prestige set suppose to be lighter?

my goodness, this subforum has an amazing obsession with Team Marins. I have one as one, but it is not anywhere rebuilt up as lovely as any of yours

3 years and not a peep from Brant, hope he (and his bici) are ok.

come again? how?

appreciate someone even responding. This week, after posting that Aquila find, I picked up an '89 and a '98 Rockhopper, so I'll be focusing on those this winter. The '89 is ... NOT LOOKING GOOD.

It's been 15+ years, but I just noticed this exasct bike (down to the colorway and vintage) for sale localy for USD85. Do I cop? I need another bike like I need another orange clown in my life.... but... This seems to have been USA made?

How have your decals not blisterd and flaked off? Amazing condition.

Mombat's thumbnail's might be broken, but the links are still good, I hope retrobike allows linking: https://mombatbicycles.com/1192Breezer1.jpg https://mombatbicycles.com/1192Breezer2.jpg

may I ask why? (Just got a '95 Thunder Haven't done anything w/ the back wheel yet)

thanks for that. I double checked the '92 catalog and can confirm mine is a '92 (USA bike) in the "alternate" colorway. in '92, Tequesa switched away from suntour/sr and went to the Shimano camp...

thanks for even commenting. I double chceked the '92 catalog and it is indeed a '92! Mystery solved. I also found out someone hammmered a 26.8 bmx seatpost into the 26.4mm collar and had to go to the bicycle co-op to pull the seat post out with a vice. Already put a specialized alumi handle bar...

I just got the exact frame/color (I think it's a 16" not an 18" though, uncertain how GT measures seat tube still.) and your build is great inspo. Would you happen to know what the new weight is after all the weenie parts were tossed on? I see my handlebar is also steel (and rusty), that...

bringing a thread back from the dead, I see '91 tequesta is suppose to have SR/Suntour/Sugino groups instead of Shimano, but all of my drivetrain has been swapped to Shimano (both RD, both shifters, and crank). That means the bike was modified, correct? TIA.

That’s amazing. I checked the manual (duh!!!) and you were spot-on! So if I order 24” I should have perfect amount to do 2 shocks just by cutting them into 1/4”. Thanks! Very cool. Thanks for the tip. I found some PolyU rods with 20mm OD and 8mm OD but the duro is a whopping 75 sh A and looks...

I want to replicate your build as I found some enough 50A elastomers (the rider is only 50Kg) for 2 quadra21s I have. Do you remember the length of each section you ended up measuring? TIA.