Help...This mornings hack buy...but what the is it?

[dablk]

yeah.. they did look a bit unecessaryly tight. Gonna swap the conti double fights on the missus giant onto this and stick the wonder dawgs on hers (for its annual outing).

Might 8 speed it as have a single xt shifter some well used stxrc cranks and would then have to treat the e3 to a much nicer casette :roll:

 

[elPedro666]

Might 8 speed it as have a single xt shifter some well used stxrc cranks and would then have to treat the e3 to a much nicer casette :roll:

Sorry, just enjoying the 'cheap hack' -> 'I can easily improve this with bits I already have' -> 'spend money elsewhere to replace bits' process, so predictable, so inevitable, so much fun

 

[jax13]

Might 8 speed it as have a single xt shifter some well used stxrc cranks and would then have to treat the e3 to a much nicer casette :roll:

Sorry, just enjoying the 'cheap hack' -> 'I can easily improve this with bits I already have' -> 'spend money elsewhere to replace bits' process, so predictable, so inevitable, so much fun

if we didn't do this to our cheap hack / pub / commuter bikes though we'd never have nice shiny 'proper' bikes!

 

[dablk]

LOl yep... plus i will "have" to get a new park spoke key to be able to true the wheels up to optimum... thats a 1/5th of the inital cost

now repeat after me... it is a hack i must not get attached...doh

 

[Woz]

...sounds familiar this "hack" progression.

It all goes pear shaped when you spend another £50 on a decent saddle...all justified by the crazy idea of actually riding it. A natural flow of upgrades taken from the other fleet members means a redefinition of pecking order. Another cheap hack is usually required to back fill a new void in the low end. Circle completed.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

the one i picked up...

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... highlight=

Can't argue with incontrovertible evidence like that...

I just wish I had (or could find...) a pic of the Raleigh because it's exactly the same bike, it even has exactly the same stem as came with my 'Special Products...'

 

[hirameuser]

Looks like a case of badge engineering here. Hung the bare frame no forks on my spring scales 6lbs (no light weight).
As you can see from the photos only the badges look different, any idears who actually made them?
I am also thinking of rebuilding as a skinny tyre 7-8 speed hack.

Phil

 

[swos]

Defiantly a Claud Butler as it looks similar to my Oracle and has the same CR-MO badge as mine

 

[moffyr72]

So it's the lovechild of a drunken night of bike manufacturers, beer and loud raucous music. Shocking. :shock:

Surprised it's not a GT..

 

[jax13]

Surprised it's not a GT..

I suppose from certain angles it looks a bit like a zaskar! :roll:

get it stickered up & back on ebay!!!


as for the frames blatant moonlighting... I don't doubt it could be a raleigh or other brand as well as a CB. Its more than likely a half decent off the peg taiwan job that a few manufacturers picked up for their own uses (be half decent I mean above BSO standard, but low-ish end 'proper' frame)