1993 Klein Rascal OTT 3DV and Rigid!

[Elfman]

You'll notice in a few of these pics a new Chris King Gripnut in Black Sotto Voce. That was my initial option, until I found a CK Gripnut in 3DV. The black will be used on another build, but here's the new 3DV Gripnut:

 

[Elfman]

And some better shots of that C-dale fork installed:

 

[Elfman]

Now moving on to the wheels. Again, I was able to source relatively cheap but NOS T-Gear Eclipse hubs, NOS Shogun Zero 3DV rims, purple allow nipples, and DT spokes. You'll see in a later post that I also have a Mag21 SL painted in Moonrise, and I had the option of building both a front wheel with non-suspension hub and a front wheel with suspension hub. The suspension hub is more of a purple ano than a 3DV ano, and has white emblems. The non-suspension hubset was actually an older 130mm road spacing on the rear hub, so I bought a new 135mm compliant Ti axle and replaced the rear hub axle with this new longer Ti one and robbed some spacers from a mountain rear hub that exploded.

 

[Elfman]

Sent off the wheels to get built, and got them back recently. They look fantastic!

 

[Elfman]

Completed the wheels with very good condition Panaracer Magic 2.2 skinwall tires, NOS T-Gear 3DV QR's, and woodpecker racing schraeder valve caps in 3DV. Considering maybe using some decent Ringle MK-1 Road Ti-Stix instead of the T-Gear QR's. Thoughts?

And a NOS Shimano CS-M737 Type R 11-28 cassette with 11t NOS Ultimate Machine lock ring.

 

[Elfman]

A few glamour shots of the current status of the build:

 

[JRGSXR]

Paintwork looks fantastic! Will stay tuned for more updates.

 

[Elfman]

Paintwork looks fantastic! Will stay tuned for more updates.

Thank you! Dave is fantastic, super easy to work with, and a super nice guy.

 

[fguki]

Superb ...reminds me much of the beautiful Moonrise Attitude with Rock Shox SL Titanium that Dave did me 2 years ago!

Rigig fork! Pah! ...who needs a fcking original rigid fork :-D In 1994, a ROCK SHOX SL Titanium was an utterly expensive upgrade and "the ultimate shaite". The original KLEIN forks became scrap-metal in notime!

 

[Elfman]

Superb ...reminds me much of the beautiful Moonrise Attitude with Rock Shox SL Titanium that Dave did me 2 years ago!

Rigig fork! Pah! ...who needs a fcking original rigid fork :-D In 1994, a ROCK SHOX SL Titanium was an utterly expensive upgrade and "the ultimate shaite". The original KLEIN forks became scrap-metal in notime!

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I think maybe you and I were the first two to get moonrise from Dave!

Don't worry. I, too, have a Mag 21 SL Ti in moonrise to use with this as well! Pics coming soon.