ilovemyrocky
Dirt Disciple
This is the story of my lovely Rocky Mountain Element.
I bought it August 1997 in Gwermany and it was assembled to my specs. Originally it was built with Shimano XT parts and a Judy SL LT. Over the years it was upgraded with new parts and it was powder coated which was a bad decision from my current point of view.
This is how I drove it for a long time and how it spent the last few years in the garage:
The last few years I haven’t used it anymore but I kept it because “I love the ride”. :mrgreen:
Almost 1 ½ years back I decided to reactivate the Element and bring it back to the original look. I started with collecting parts and was happy to find all what I was looking for in really good shape.
The frame was painted by Gerrit at CycleArt-Berlin and he did an incredible job!
The stickers are from Gil and are a perfect fit. What would we do without our experts…
The Element is almost finished right now. Just needs some fine tuning, especially for the brakes which start rubbing when I sit on the bike. I think the Crossmax wheels are a little weak for my current weight.
I already tried another crossmax wheelset (the ones from the pirst pic in this thread) and this one works fine. No rubbing.
I know, "this thread is useless without pics" so ....... here they are:
I love the paitjob ......
Fork is a 100mm Marzocchi Z1 X-Fly
Altek brake levers
Cranks are in really good shape.
Modified real with aprox. 100mm travel
I bought it August 1997 in Gwermany and it was assembled to my specs. Originally it was built with Shimano XT parts and a Judy SL LT. Over the years it was upgraded with new parts and it was powder coated which was a bad decision from my current point of view.
This is how I drove it for a long time and how it spent the last few years in the garage:
The last few years I haven’t used it anymore but I kept it because “I love the ride”. :mrgreen:
Almost 1 ½ years back I decided to reactivate the Element and bring it back to the original look. I started with collecting parts and was happy to find all what I was looking for in really good shape.
The frame was painted by Gerrit at CycleArt-Berlin and he did an incredible job!
The stickers are from Gil and are a perfect fit. What would we do without our experts…
The Element is almost finished right now. Just needs some fine tuning, especially for the brakes which start rubbing when I sit on the bike. I think the Crossmax wheels are a little weak for my current weight.
I already tried another crossmax wheelset (the ones from the pirst pic in this thread) and this one works fine. No rubbing.
I know, "this thread is useless without pics" so ....... here they are:
I love the paitjob ......
Fork is a 100mm Marzocchi Z1 X-Fly
Altek brake levers
Cranks are in really good shape.
Modified real with aprox. 100mm travel
