halaburt
Retro Guru
This is a largely-custom bike I had built for me in 1998. It’s a bike I tried to make very (probably too) versatile -- with S&S couplings and the multiple bar setups. The parts mix was pretty similar to my ’92 Cunningham and ’95 Newsboy -- in other words, all WTB/Potts/Cunningham and mostly early-90’s.
It’s a big bike -- 19.5” c-to-c and the largest size the Phoenix was ever offered in. It looks even larger because I asked Steve to extend the head tube DOWN and make it non-suspension-corrected knowing that I would only ever run it with the Type-II fork. If I’d waited another year or two, I probably could have had an equivalent Potts 29’er which might have looked and performed better for someone of my 6’5” tall size. No real regrets though.
The original build spec was documented in a photo gallery and “dot-Mac” web page I setup for each of my bikes in 2003. That page disappeared many years ago, but I’ve recreated it in this Flickr gallery including all the kitschy and not-entirely-accurate descriptions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halaburt/sets/72157632067810709/
As one of my 3 primary MTB’s, I’ve ridden this bike regularly these last 15 years. Starting about 2 years ago, I undertook some upgrades and those are now all complete. I shot a new round of pics of the bike as it sits today:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halaburt/sets/72157632046658758/
It’s a big bike -- 19.5” c-to-c and the largest size the Phoenix was ever offered in. It looks even larger because I asked Steve to extend the head tube DOWN and make it non-suspension-corrected knowing that I would only ever run it with the Type-II fork. If I’d waited another year or two, I probably could have had an equivalent Potts 29’er which might have looked and performed better for someone of my 6’5” tall size. No real regrets though.
The original build spec was documented in a photo gallery and “dot-Mac” web page I setup for each of my bikes in 2003. That page disappeared many years ago, but I’ve recreated it in this Flickr gallery including all the kitschy and not-entirely-accurate descriptions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halaburt/sets/72157632067810709/
As one of my 3 primary MTB’s, I’ve ridden this bike regularly these last 15 years. Starting about 2 years ago, I undertook some upgrades and those are now all complete. I shot a new round of pics of the bike as it sits today:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halaburt/sets/72157632046658758/