DeletedUser006
Old School Grand Master
Here is my latest project that I managed to cobble together moments before Mayhem last month :shock:
I remember seeing these in magazines back in the day but never in the flesh, the 5 colour fluorescent fade was something very of its time and to me something I liked a lot. So when this appeared on ebay it just have to have it, Fast forward a week of excitement and a box arrives, well a rather rattly ropey looking box which suddenly made my excitement instantly go off the boil. I opened the box to find the bike minus any packaging , 2 loose in box bear trap pedals and 2 wheels either side of frame with the cassette inwards facing for extra damage :evil: After much ebay messaging I managed to get a partial refund. I did ask seller to ensure sufficient packaging would be used :roll:
Anyway here is the bike that I am very fond of even with the new damage, For starters it has a rear U brake
and some of mostly XT spares from my parts box, I did have to shell out for a new Italian threaded BB which did confuse me for a while with the RH threads etc :roll:
I took this to mahem, it rides very well and I was amazed at the love it got ! not just in the retrobike heckling area but I was stopped constantly asking about in the area arena and nice bike heckled from the along the trackside during its racing lap. (maybe they were jesting at the clowns bike ) The best stop and ask was someone from STW who wanted pics of it which they posted on their forum which was quite something for one of my bikes
Anyway please enjoy the pics and expect to see it out again soon
Pics from STW
I remember seeing these in magazines back in the day but never in the flesh, the 5 colour fluorescent fade was something very of its time and to me something I liked a lot. So when this appeared on ebay it just have to have it, Fast forward a week of excitement and a box arrives, well a rather rattly ropey looking box which suddenly made my excitement instantly go off the boil. I opened the box to find the bike minus any packaging , 2 loose in box bear trap pedals and 2 wheels either side of frame with the cassette inwards facing for extra damage :evil: After much ebay messaging I managed to get a partial refund. I did ask seller to ensure sufficient packaging would be used :roll:
Anyway here is the bike that I am very fond of even with the new damage, For starters it has a rear U brake
and some of mostly XT spares from my parts box, I did have to shell out for a new Italian threaded BB which did confuse me for a while with the RH threads etc :roll:I took this to mahem, it rides very well and I was amazed at the love it got ! not just in the retrobike heckling area but I was stopped constantly asking about in the area arena and nice bike heckled from the along the trackside during its racing lap. (maybe they were jesting at the clowns bike
) The best stop and ask was someone from STW who wanted pics of it which they posted on their forum which was quite something for one of my bikes Anyway please enjoy the pics and expect to see it out again soon
Pics from STW
