Corduroyboy
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Picked this up earlier this year for a surprisingly reasonable sum. Inspired by Boyburning’s renegade Amp, when looking for a stem with a decent reach and rise, tried a Manitou stem. The chunky aesthetic then led to Machine Tech cantis, hubs, levers and TNT cranks. An experiment with an Answer carbon bar, stripped and polished seemed to work nicely with the Pace RC35 MXCs, so the same treatment was given to a Superstar seatpost, long enough to make the ever-so-slightly-smaller-than-I-prefer frame workable. It’s badged up as an ‘Extralight’ but I can only find a single reference on the net for such a beast (other than the road bikes). I reckon it’s a ‘95 model. A few jobs still to do - the bottom Chris King cup is untidy, the front cantis need pads and it obviously needs pedals!
The offending stem:
The offending stem: