MRB Mk IV builld (photos on page 2 now)

[james1985]

Ok, so I'm starting this thread a bit early, but cant wait to get my hands on it.

I'm thinking a set of Girvin Vectors up front would keep the overkill theme up.
I now have a U brake for the rear.
Maybe some old school Wolber rims

Might go singlespeed as I have a Paul tensioner ive been meaning to put to use for years.


Any spec sugestions welcome at this stage.

 

[legrandefromage]

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Fit it with the most robust parts of 1990?

Fit gearz but fit a road bike rear mech and a small cassette

 

[AlexTemper]

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An old Sachs Sucess rear mech would be cool. Used to use one with Grip Shift on my Roberts which performed very well back in the 90's.

 

[Johnboy]

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Signing up.

Singlespeed, meh. But I suppose it's your bike (actually you'll just have to accept that it's OUR bike, I just lost custody due to my depraved lifestyle.)

Certainly a robust build in keeping with the frame. Think of a jagdpanzer, as I'm sure you already are .

Anyway, hurry up and get on with it.

 

[james1985]

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Fit it with the most robust parts of 1990?

Fit gearz but fit a road bike rear mech and a small cassette

Cool, i'll go along with some high gearing. Ive got a small road cassette. Il have a rummage for rear mech. I'm going to try and tidy up parts on to the frame rather than buy more in. Saves a bit of space (&money) then.

 

[james1985]

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An old Sachs Sucess rear mech would be cool. Used to use one with Grip Shift on my Roberts which performed very well back in the 90's.

I do have some Sachs shifters somewhere, so this could be a pissabolity, if I really have to buy anything else.

 

[james1985]

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Signing up.

Singlespeed, meh. But I suppose it's your bike (actually you'll just have to accept that it's OUR bike, I just lost custody due to my depraved lifestyle.)

Certainly a robust build in keeping with the frame. Think of a jagdpanzer, as I'm sure you already are .

Anyway, hurry up and get on with it.

Doesn't have to be singlespeed, il do that to something else. (I checked my bikeshop account history today, and found I bought the singlespeed parts in 2012, so another couple months will make no difference)

Yes a jagdpanzer is a good theme, not sure which will weigh the most at the moment haha.

 

[james1985]

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Well it turned up yesterday.
Unfortunatley there is an inch long crack in the headtube so its for show, not go.

I dropped out the Quadras and put the Vector 2s in. It looks epically agricultural.

Unfortunately, I cant make any pictures work on here so you will have to use your imagination.

 

[Johnboy]

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Unfortunatley there is an inch long crack in the headtube so its for show, not go.

That's a shame. I don't remember any mention of cracking in the Ebay description, you think it happened in delivery?

 

[james1985]

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Unfortunatley there is an inch long crack in the headtube so its for show, not go.

That's a shame. I don't remember any mention of cracking in the Ebay description, you think it happened in delivery?

It doesn't look like a new crack, and its at the bottom so I doubt it. One of those things though with an aged ally frame. I'm very eagle eyed when it comes to anything like this, so I suspect the seller hadn't noticed.