aguycalled80
Retro Guru
I actually picked up this bike two summer ago, but never got around to posting anything. But there's another that got posted recently so I figured it was time.
Here it as delivered;
These are hardly common, but I've never seen one with the BB junction and top tube painted like this one. It seemed to be somewhat original; the forks, stem and, post, but probably not the parts. I picked up a parts bike for it a few days later.
It's an '86 Kuwahara Sierra XT, used very lighty, and came with a second set of wheels. So it's 6-speed non-hyperglide. The Rocky catalog says 7-speed, but I was happy to have a super clean set of XT parts.
I picked the black anodized wheels, found a super-aggressive stem, and here we are;
I need some 2.0mm cables and housing to finish it up, but I really like it so far. It's not all rosy though, because there is a crack in it - right where that blue spot is on the top tube. I think something heavy fell on it. It's a weird V-shaped crack, and only a very small dent.
And finally; last summer I needed to round up the serial numbers of all my bikes, so I took off the cable guide under the BB and found this.
Maybe this is why the paint is different? Maybe they did one by mistake?
Anyway, I'm pretty happy with it.
Here it as delivered;
These are hardly common, but I've never seen one with the BB junction and top tube painted like this one. It seemed to be somewhat original; the forks, stem and, post, but probably not the parts. I picked up a parts bike for it a few days later.
It's an '86 Kuwahara Sierra XT, used very lighty, and came with a second set of wheels. So it's 6-speed non-hyperglide. The Rocky catalog says 7-speed, but I was happy to have a super clean set of XT parts.
I picked the black anodized wheels, found a super-aggressive stem, and here we are;
I need some 2.0mm cables and housing to finish it up, but I really like it so far. It's not all rosy though, because there is a crack in it - right where that blue spot is on the top tube. I think something heavy fell on it. It's a weird V-shaped crack, and only a very small dent.
And finally; last summer I needed to round up the serial numbers of all my bikes, so I took off the cable guide under the BB and found this.
Maybe this is why the paint is different? Maybe they did one by mistake?
Anyway, I'm pretty happy with it.
very nice, shame about the crack though.
