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Klein Fan
Back on the trails after hiding in Sundayjumper's garage for 9 years. Thanks @Sundayjumper
I had to grab this mainly due to rarely seeing a Pinnacle with colour matched frame and Klein stamped Spinner fork, fork paint is of high quality same as the frame. These forks were factory black or chrome from what I've seen. Forks only blemish is a couple of small paint chips.
Spent a good few hours polishing up with T-cut, some areas came up like new. Colour looks amazing in the sun.
Built up with mostly spares so it's a work in progress, only new major investment is the Tange - Seiki headset. The aim is for everything to be green, silver or black.
Frame is a bit rough in places, its been well used with lots bubbling around the BB, mostly out of sight. Plenty of paint chips in the frame but no dents. Big old repair on one bottle cage insert, but that is well hidden under the bottle cage. Paint touched up with matching nail polish found in Superdrug, which does not match so great on the top areas where there's some sun fading, hopefully will seal the damaged areas a bit. It's a rider so I'm not too bothered.
I can see a sun fade outline of an Onza Porcupine sticker on the top tube which is quite cool.
Put in new plastic frame internal cables from kleinspainted, I use a magnet and a gear cable with the ends cut off, then fed it through, tricky bit is guiding it out of the exit hole with the magnet, then run the internal cable over the gear cable, job done in a couple of minutes.
Ti stem (sold to me as Litespeed
but I have doubts) is a bit low, long and cable clangs across the bumps, I'd consider replacing with a Mission Control if someone has one available.
I had to grab this mainly due to rarely seeing a Pinnacle with colour matched frame and Klein stamped Spinner fork, fork paint is of high quality same as the frame. These forks were factory black or chrome from what I've seen. Forks only blemish is a couple of small paint chips.
Spent a good few hours polishing up with T-cut, some areas came up like new. Colour looks amazing in the sun.
Built up with mostly spares so it's a work in progress, only new major investment is the Tange - Seiki headset. The aim is for everything to be green, silver or black.
Frame is a bit rough in places, its been well used with lots bubbling around the BB, mostly out of sight. Plenty of paint chips in the frame but no dents. Big old repair on one bottle cage insert, but that is well hidden under the bottle cage. Paint touched up with matching nail polish found in Superdrug, which does not match so great on the top areas where there's some sun fading, hopefully will seal the damaged areas a bit. It's a rider so I'm not too bothered.
I can see a sun fade outline of an Onza Porcupine sticker on the top tube which is quite cool.
Put in new plastic frame internal cables from kleinspainted, I use a magnet and a gear cable with the ends cut off, then fed it through, tricky bit is guiding it out of the exit hole with the magnet, then run the internal cable over the gear cable, job done in a couple of minutes.
Ti stem (sold to me as Litespeed
but I have doubts) is a bit low, long and cable clangs across the bumps, I'd consider replacing with a Mission Control if someone has one available.
