The Cleaner
Dirt Disciple
I've acquired this from a friend who dug it out of his shed!
It seems to be all original apart from no tyres. I've cleared the worst of the muck off it and all seems to be functioning. Popped some air into the forks last week and holding pressure and have oil in them. Bearings on hub, headset and bottom bracket fairly smooth with no play.
But!!
2 probs with frame :-( it appears to have a hardly visible hairline crack inthe weld on the left chain stay/seat tube weld about 1 cm long and when I tried to unbolt the cable guide under the b/b shell the head sheared off!
However the crack should be any easy fix, I had a quote for the weld repair plus powder coat for £35 and the bolt can be drilled out. This would be a great little project for a nice original build. Only reason I'm not doing it myself is it's far too small for me :-( .
Spec and prices as follows, preferably collected for the big stuff. All post at cost in addition to price below.
16" Kona Kilauea prestige concept frame inc dog collar and seat clamp( see description) £25 SOLD PP
Marzocchi XC51 forks ( work but could do with service) £ 30 SOLD
Impact headset ( 1 1/8" bearings good) £10 SOLD
Velocity Stem ( no cap 1") £8 SOLD PP
Wheeler race lite bars (cut, bit roughly at one end) £4 SOLD PP
Kona Seatpost ( insertion marks but will clean up) £5 SOLD
Kona brake levers ( bolts corroded but nice cond) £8 SOLD
Sugino Impel cranks ( tapers/threads good, just need a polish) £20 SOLD PP
LX Front mech ( no cable bolt) £5 SOLD
XT m737 rear mech( backplate rough otherwise nice cond) £10 SOLD
Shimano ?? LX Brake set ( pivot bolts bit corroded) £8 SOLD PP
8 speed shimano cassette (11-28 plenty of miles left) £8 SOLD PP
Mavic 231 on XT m737 rear wheel ( worn rim but plenty of life yet, hub is smooth with no play) £20 SOLD PP
Mavic 230 on LX parallax front wheel (worn rim with slight ding, not noticeable, but plenty of life yet, hub smooth with no play) £15 SOLD PP
Think that's it? Whole bike price still stands.
All this for £95 collected, prefer not to post if I can help it, willing to travel reasonable dust to meet for price of fuel.
If I'm way off tell me.
It seems to be all original apart from no tyres. I've cleared the worst of the muck off it and all seems to be functioning. Popped some air into the forks last week and holding pressure and have oil in them. Bearings on hub, headset and bottom bracket fairly smooth with no play.
But!!
2 probs with frame :-( it appears to have a hardly visible hairline crack inthe weld on the left chain stay/seat tube weld about 1 cm long and when I tried to unbolt the cable guide under the b/b shell the head sheared off!
However the crack should be any easy fix, I had a quote for the weld repair plus powder coat for £35 and the bolt can be drilled out. This would be a great little project for a nice original build. Only reason I'm not doing it myself is it's far too small for me :-( .
Spec and prices as follows, preferably collected for the big stuff. All post at cost in addition to price below.
16" Kona Kilauea prestige concept frame inc dog collar and seat clamp( see description) £25 SOLD PP
Marzocchi XC51 forks ( work but could do with service) £ 30 SOLD
Impact headset ( 1 1/8" bearings good) £10 SOLD
Velocity Stem ( no cap 1") £8 SOLD PP
Wheeler race lite bars (cut, bit roughly at one end) £4 SOLD PP
Kona Seatpost ( insertion marks but will clean up) £5 SOLD
Kona brake levers ( bolts corroded but nice cond) £8 SOLD
Sugino Impel cranks ( tapers/threads good, just need a polish) £20 SOLD PP
LX Front mech ( no cable bolt) £5 SOLD
XT m737 rear mech( backplate rough otherwise nice cond) £10 SOLD
Shimano ?? LX Brake set ( pivot bolts bit corroded) £8 SOLD PP
8 speed shimano cassette (11-28 plenty of miles left) £8 SOLD PP
Mavic 231 on XT m737 rear wheel ( worn rim but plenty of life yet, hub is smooth with no play) £20 SOLD PP
Mavic 230 on LX parallax front wheel (worn rim with slight ding, not noticeable, but plenty of life yet, hub smooth with no play) £15 SOLD PP
Think that's it? Whole bike price still stands.
All this for £95 collected, prefer not to post if I can help it, willing to travel reasonable dust to meet for price of fuel.
If I'm way off tell me.
