A hello, how I found the forums, and some bike porn.

[DeoreDX]

No one so far has noticed the pennies I glued to the Maguras on the front, I never felt comfortable with the rounded Magura brake arms digging into the side of the carbon fiber, that whole stress concentration thing that Carbon Fiber doesn't like. So I meticulously sanded down the face of two pennies smooth and glued them on to the brakes (not the forks) in order to give a nice flat bearing surface for the Maguras. I've always wanted to put a booster on the front but never found one locally. I see they are pretty cheap online now-a-days. Probably not much demand for them any more.

For the life of me I can't remember the name of the mfg/model of the wrap around bar end I use. After getting a bar end hooked onto a vine and flipping several summersaults down the trail I decided that Ned Overend was on to something and bought one the next day.

I bought the Wheeler as a complete bike, full LX gruppo and rigid. Only parks I kept from the bike after I got it where the handlebars, seat post, and eventually the SRT600s. I did have SRT800's but they seemed to want to crack on me so I ended up using the SRT600s.

 

[DeoreDX]

Nice story and welcome to the site

Where are you based? Got a rollamajig and some 600 grips if you need them.

Chris.

I'm in the states, Alabama to be exact.

Some more retro bike porn. My Paul's Crosstops. I remember there being a couple of versions of these things, can't for the life of me recall which ones these were.

 

[Chris]

Was gonna say if you were UK you could of had the grips and rollamajig for nothing but US would be for postage costs

 

[feetabix]

welcome to rb!.....

 

[Russell]

Always nice to see a genuine 90's customized bike. They're so different from the ones that we build today in an attempt to mimic that 90s image.

+1.

Love this bike.

 

[speedplay]

No one so far has noticed the pennies I glued to the Maguras on the front,

I noticed.

I've done the same in the past

I also noticed that you only ride in the dry and not in the deep uk mud as over here, we tend to put the mounts so they are lower than the side of the tyre for extra mud clearance.

 

[DeoreDX]

No one so far has noticed the pennies I glued to the Maguras on the front,

I noticed.

I've done the same in the past

I also noticed that you only ride in the dry and not in the deep uk mud as over here, we tend to put the mounts so they are lower than the side of the tyre for extra mud clearance.

SE part of the US is pretty dry in the summer, and I've never had to deal with a lot of sticky mud. Our soil around here is predominantly red clay, so in the winter when conditions are wet the water tends to puddle on the surface with the "mud" under the surface of the water so it pretty much washes away the mud as you ride through it.