1991 Trek 8900 - Florescent resto happiness (almost NOS)

[Jam_SWorks]

Just came across this build from BOTM - bloody lovely and worthy winner

nice to see one wearing all the original kit (time warp) - mine came as an abused frame only and I though it build up well - now I'm not so sure having see this example

thank you... i just need to acquire some grafton brakes to make it catalogue perfect

 

[Retro Spud]

now your talking 100% filthy bike porn

 

[ThinkFab]

Amazing and beuatiful tear down and rebuild my friend! I just picked up a 93 8300 with the DDS3 fork, but the fork is pretty locked up.

You wouldn't happen to have any info on rebuilding the DDS3 fork would you? I would hate to have to replace that fork with something else considering the condition of the bike with nearly all original components.

 

[Jam_SWorks]

Amazing and beuatiful tear down and rebuild my friend! I just picked up a 93 8300 with the DDS3 fork, but the fork is pretty locked up.

You wouldn't happen to have any info on rebuilding the DDS3 fork would you? I would hate to have to replace that fork with something else considering the condition of the bike with nearly all original components.

Thanks for the comments, it was a lovely bike to do. Regarding your DDS3 forks, I do remember them from back in the day. They will service/ pull apart in a similar way to RS Mag 10 or 20 forks do. But you need a special tool which separates the lower legs from the slider. As it all press fittings.

A useful thread here might help. As you can technically try to pressurise them and blow them off. But be exceptionally careful as you can injure yourself easily. I’ve done this route before and it creates a heck of a mess oil wise.

Revisiting DDS3 - a 1992 Trek 9000 Fork

Think it is the same mechanic as in some Marzocchis, e.g. DH3, XCR, XC50 and others. Have a look at assembly no. 53. --> https://dr-marzocchi.projectweb.de/advice-info/manuals/

www.retrobike.co.uk

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

A beautiful bicycle.

 

[Jam_SWorks]

It’s been a while! But finally some minor tweaks to finish off the Trek 8900 this week. I sourced some period correct Grafton cantis and fitted a Flight Titanium saddle too. A year on since BoTM its done a couple of sunny pub runs... And I took it to the Fortwilliam DH World championship last year to commute about on. Got many positive comments from passers by which was nice.

The Grafton cantis needed a good service and I had to source a missing lip seal. Big thanks to viengsavnh (Ross) for answering my wanted call . Possibility that the Flight Ti will also get swapped out for a Flight Carbon Ti in a month or two . I chose to put new/recent brake pads on as I do rideretro bikes and want to brakes to actually sort of work .

 

[Jam_SWorks]

 

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[Retro Spud]

That’s the Mutz Nutz

I live mine but this is a different level to any that I’ve seen on here

 

[Black_puma]

That looks stunning and love the colours too!