1991 Rocky Mountain Stratos

[aguycalled80]

I had a very good weekend for vintage bikes. This Stratos is the second bike I got, and I got it from the very excellent forum member Blizz, who was gracious enough to show me his very excellent collection of bikes too.



It's a little scuffed and scratched, but I like patina, and it's not dented or cracked. The fork has a dent though, which looks like it may have come from over tightening a pannier on it. It's the original fork/stem/bar (although the catalog fork doesn't have fender eyelets) but the shifters were replaced at some point, as was the rear rim. It's an RM17 instead of a Wolber.







Back in '93, I had a '91 Nimbus which was stolen from my backyard, so while this isn't nearly the same thing, it's raw aluminium, fat welds, and even the same size too big as my Nimbus. It's given me a pretty happy nostalgic feel already.



And here's my first modification already. This bar comes from an '87 Fisher and it's all kinds of ugly, but it's wide and has tons of backsweep. I was going to put an On One Mary on it, but this old thing is comfy.

Sharp eyes may have already spied my first score of the weekend in these pics...

 

[Blizz]

Thanks for stopping by! It's always great to chat about retro bikes and meet up with a fellow Rocky fanatic.
I'm glad the bike has gone to a good home.

It's too bad that not many of those Nimbus frames survived. They looked great with the white syncros stem and powerlite!
I saw one a while back on ebay Germany, but nothing in Canada in a long time.

Enjoy the bike!

 

[cyclotoine]

I see another rocky in the background. Stratos is nice

 

[yeti_bomb]

Re:

Cool bike. Whatever happened to it?

 

[Mike E.]

Looks alot like the '89 Stratos I have in the shed. Used it as a donor for my climbMax for it's fork/headset and ubrake. Have all the parts to put it back together now. What's stopping me??? lol

A former RM employee told me to prevent the frame from cracking at it's normal spot....the seatclamp....leave the quick release in the relaxed position when the bike is being stored. You might already know this, but thought I'd just mention it.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[Ferghus]

Very cool ! I bought one these brand new back in 91 - great memories.

 

[dalecooper]

Those welds and that patina! Lovely bike enjoy riding it.

 

[dillbike]

Thanks for the reminder, just pulled this thing out again as it's been on the back burner for too long. Acquired in sans a cable stop and it had a descent tear/crack on Normal seat clamp weld area. Both are fixed now and the build must commence.

 

[RockiMtn]

Thanks for the reminder, just pulled this thing out again as it's been on the back burner for too long. Acquired in sans a cable stop and it had a descent tear/crack on Normal seat clamp weld area. Both are fixed now and the build must commence.

that's SWEET!