Joe*Pro
Senior Retro Guru
Looking better, but still making do again with lookalike parts till the rare consumables turn up.
The brakes really needed to be Avids as a minimum, even if I couldn’t find the crazy price SD Ultimates this side of the Atlantic.
I’d started to study the stock catalogue a bit more and wonder if it was better to aim for that. Thinking ‘well that must have been how it looked the day JMC took delivery of it’ till he adjusted it to be the dual slalom bike I think he intended it to be. I don’t know for sure, but I can’t imagine he took delivery of just a frame alone and it had too many of the stock catalogue parts on for that to be the case.
A pair of grey NOS Umma Gummas popped up at less than triple figures, so why not. As finally did the first grey saddle, although it was perforated like the catalogues, which I panic bought in the car sat waiting for a red light to turn green at a railway crossing!!
The fear of trying to acquire rare parts really setting in now when ever something vaguly correct was spotted.
But some good riding was had all the same, including a few stretches of the South Downs way with the mrs.
The catalogue:
The brakes really needed to be Avids as a minimum, even if I couldn’t find the crazy price SD Ultimates this side of the Atlantic.
I’d started to study the stock catalogue a bit more and wonder if it was better to aim for that. Thinking ‘well that must have been how it looked the day JMC took delivery of it’ till he adjusted it to be the dual slalom bike I think he intended it to be. I don’t know for sure, but I can’t imagine he took delivery of just a frame alone and it had too many of the stock catalogue parts on for that to be the case.
A pair of grey NOS Umma Gummas popped up at less than triple figures, so why not. As finally did the first grey saddle, although it was perforated like the catalogues, which I panic bought in the car sat waiting for a red light to turn green at a railway crossing!!
The fear of trying to acquire rare parts really setting in now when ever something vaguly correct was spotted.
But some good riding was had all the same, including a few stretches of the South Downs way with the mrs.
The catalogue:
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