I’ve given a home to a knackered old Dog on its last legs-

[Retro Spud]

Trek 8900 Manitou I retro Spud m735

part deux

Progress 2:

Internal sleeve brazed in and cleaned up for second stage:





Top section ready to go. Internal loop of filler inside on top of sleeve, two portholes cut to indicate when filler has run:






Filler flowed to joint and portholes filled:





Clean up and finished product:







All the best,

 

[yakboy]

Re:

Class...I do love seeing people with exceptional lathe skills

 

[Retro Spud]

Trek 8900 8600 1991 carbon composite

Class...I do love seeing people with exceptional lathe skills

so true - must be so satisfying to have the kit and the skills to us it as effectively as Dan



and this post is just for you Al -

Still aiming for the Malverns...

Hopefully I'll take some bikes, although they will all need tweaking, so I don't get my arse too badly tanned by the usual suspects on their brightly coloured over-restored poncey machines.

May see you there, if only for some abuse.

al.

this "Over Restored Poncey Machine" will be sporting this a brightly coloured saddle.. just needs a darn good clean and polish on the Neon - I think it needs a saddle in keeping with the theme

 

[The History Man]

Make it long and solid.................

 

[Retro Spud]

Make it long and solid.................

Ahhh for FFS - okay I guess that does sound wrong on so many levels, what I meant is I want it strong enough so I can ride it

 

[The History Man]

And he keeps digging...........

 

[Peachy!]

Make it long and solid.................

Then subsequently had it “popped into his box” :shock: :cry:

 

[Retro Spud]

Ahhhh ......okay ! now I'm getting concerned that Sid James and Hattie Jacques are going to turn up !



And back to the Bike... otherwise the page count will be up around both of your standards :facepalm:

 

[foz]

Re:

"must be so satisfying to have the kit and the skills to us it as effectively as Dan"

Lucky bloke!

 

[Retro Spud]

Re: Re:

Those decals really make it..looking great. Don't you think the Flouro Magura's will look a bit lost next to the Flouro stays?

You had me thinking ^ but I've held my nerve and think I chose right, having received the wheels back from being trued up - NOS hubs on 27 year old rims (they have to be the widest rims I've seen in a long while, so wide the Bike shop who supplied the cloth tape joked they had no idea when the last time they old some.. :?

Anyway now they're back I can start to rebuild the thing starting with the brakes





Black and Flouro Yellow





NOS XT M732 and a very lightly used 27 year old rim and Critical Racing Skewers..






and a Royce 122mm x 73mm axle transplanted into some unknown NOS but rather cool black casings - ready for some equally black XT cranks