DeoreDX
Dirt Disciple
When I was in college (~94-9
95% of the time you would find me on my bike. I dabbled in racing, learned how to wrench on a bike, and spend 4-5 days out of the week at the local trails putting some hard miles on a pretty good collection of bikes for a poor college kid. But after graduating I found my time for biking disappeared in the real world. I hung my bike in the garage, rode motorcycles instead and played golf in my free time. After getting married a little kid came into my life and he's 3 now. I bought him a Strider bike for his Birthday last year when he turned three and over the months he's gotten really good balancing on the bike and tearing it up through the neighborhood. He wants me to ride with him so I pulled my dust and cobweb covered bike out of the garage and at least got it somewhat working and we ride up and down the local dirt roads and he has a blast.
But after hanging in the garage/sheds over the years pretty much dormant, the bike was in need of some repairs. First thing was the shifting, my bike previously had an Avid Rollamajig but I moved it to a road bike I bought. Next was the old grips on my SRT600's turned into some type of hellious tar gunk that royally gummed up the grip shifters. That's how I found this site, searching for some replacement ideas for my old SRAM SRT600's. I was sad to see Avid no longer makes the Rollamajig... I'm also looking for a replacement for it too. I ended up wrapping some duct tape around the shifter since I couldn't find any grips for it and I've been riding it sans grips. Just threw in some regular shift cable housing in place of the rollamajig. Anyhoo I thought some of you would like to see some of the not often seen retro stuff I have hanging on my bike.
Frame is a Wheeler 5900 made from 7005 series Aluminum. I was poor in college and someone backed into my car with my GT Karakoram hanging on the back damaging the down tube. They drove away, no note or even an apology, and I was left with no bike and no money. A friend did the web page for Wheeler international, and got me a great deal on the 5900 frame. I had never heard of Wheeler but the price was right and it got me back on the trail. I had always planned on replacing it the first chance I got as I was always a steel sort of guy but I've kept it every since. You can see she needs some cleaning as it hasn't seen much action in the past 10 years. I used to clean and maintain it twice a month and it would be so clean you could eat off of it.
Girvin Pro Carbon with coil over oil ODS system bought from a former Girvin sponsored racer who was no longer sponsored and didn't need it any more, replaced a polished Vector II which in turn replaced a Rock Shox Judy. The polished aluminum Vector II looked awesome on the front of the polished AL bike, but nothing beats the look of carbon fiber
Magura Blue HS22 hydraulic brakes, V's had just become the rage but I always lusted after a set of the Magura HS33's Johnny Tomac editions, but I got these on clearance so I settled for HS22's instead. These replaced my most favorite bike jewlry I ever bought, Paul's Engineering Crosstop brakes. I still have the Crosstops, doubt I'll ever get rid of them.
My bike Mojo, installed after wrapping a large snake around my rear wheel at Bartram's Trail in Tuskegee National Forest, used to help me ward off any more evil snakes.
A reminder to fasten my seat belt when I got on the bike Safety first!
My name sake. Always had DeoreDX on my MTBs. Always will.
DeoreLX in the front with a specialized Strongarm crank. Can't remember the BB but I do remember choosing it because the spindle was hollow and a lot lighter then others.
Sun CRE16 rims, needed something beefy as any light weight rims seems to get out of true way too often for me. Specialized Team Control Kevlar beed was my tire of choice on the front end.
I always used Kevlar beaded Continental Cross Country on the rear end, great traction for me through the mud.
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95% of the time you would find me on my bike. I dabbled in racing, learned how to wrench on a bike, and spend 4-5 days out of the week at the local trails putting some hard miles on a pretty good collection of bikes for a poor college kid. But after graduating I found my time for biking disappeared in the real world. I hung my bike in the garage, rode motorcycles instead and played golf in my free time. After getting married a little kid came into my life and he's 3 now. I bought him a Strider bike for his Birthday last year when he turned three and over the months he's gotten really good balancing on the bike and tearing it up through the neighborhood. He wants me to ride with him so I pulled my dust and cobweb covered bike out of the garage and at least got it somewhat working and we ride up and down the local dirt roads and he has a blast.
But after hanging in the garage/sheds over the years pretty much dormant, the bike was in need of some repairs. First thing was the shifting, my bike previously had an Avid Rollamajig but I moved it to a road bike I bought. Next was the old grips on my SRT600's turned into some type of hellious tar gunk that royally gummed up the grip shifters. That's how I found this site, searching for some replacement ideas for my old SRAM SRT600's. I was sad to see Avid no longer makes the Rollamajig... I'm also looking for a replacement for it too. I ended up wrapping some duct tape around the shifter since I couldn't find any grips for it and I've been riding it sans grips. Just threw in some regular shift cable housing in place of the rollamajig. Anyhoo I thought some of you would like to see some of the not often seen retro stuff I have hanging on my bike.
Frame is a Wheeler 5900 made from 7005 series Aluminum. I was poor in college and someone backed into my car with my GT Karakoram hanging on the back damaging the down tube. They drove away, no note or even an apology, and I was left with no bike and no money. A friend did the web page for Wheeler international, and got me a great deal on the 5900 frame. I had never heard of Wheeler but the price was right and it got me back on the trail. I had always planned on replacing it the first chance I got as I was always a steel sort of guy but I've kept it every since. You can see she needs some cleaning as it hasn't seen much action in the past 10 years. I used to clean and maintain it twice a month and it would be so clean you could eat off of it.
Girvin Pro Carbon with coil over oil ODS system bought from a former Girvin sponsored racer who was no longer sponsored and didn't need it any more, replaced a polished Vector II which in turn replaced a Rock Shox Judy. The polished aluminum Vector II looked awesome on the front of the polished AL bike, but nothing beats the look of carbon fiber
Magura Blue HS22 hydraulic brakes, V's had just become the rage but I always lusted after a set of the Magura HS33's Johnny Tomac editions, but I got these on clearance so I settled for HS22's instead. These replaced my most favorite bike jewlry I ever bought, Paul's Engineering Crosstop brakes. I still have the Crosstops, doubt I'll ever get rid of them.
My bike Mojo, installed after wrapping a large snake around my rear wheel at Bartram's Trail in Tuskegee National Forest, used to help me ward off any more evil snakes.
A reminder to fasten my seat belt when I got on the bike
Safety first!
My name sake. Always had DeoreDX on my MTBs. Always will.
DeoreLX in the front with a specialized Strongarm crank. Can't remember the BB but I do remember choosing it because the spindle was hollow and a lot lighter then others.
Sun CRE16 rims, needed something beefy as any light weight rims seems to get out of true way too often for me. Specialized Team Control Kevlar beed was my tire of choice on the front end.
I always used Kevlar beaded Continental Cross Country on the rear end, great traction for me through the mud.
