SWMBO's Stumphopper/Rockjumper?? Cr*p photo update 26.02.13

[We_are_Stevo]

Title edited now the cat's out of the bag - as it were...

You'll have to excuse the rather cluttered desk, much to SWMBO's dismay I live in a state of perpetual chaos!

Fresh from the powder coaters' in exactly the right shade of 'purply-pink'

 

[beechdaleboy]

its not a posh raleigh apex is it

 

[kase1983]

spesh stumpy?

 

[roblobster]

would have to be a 98 then, no?
just dismantled mine and the seat clamp area looks very much like it, so was my guess as well, but the only ritchey tubing I can think of on stumpys was on the last steel batch, no? the lovely lovely silver and orange ones.

 

[KermitGKona88]

FAT :?:

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Yeah, this is as far as I've got at the moment...

...well no, I tell a lie, I've actually decalled it up but the frame is now in the shed awaiting assembly and I don't have a photo' of it with them on yet.

Though I will admit to having committed sacrilege by attacking it with an angle grinder prior to powder coating... :shock:

 

[IWish]

Looks like a 95-97 Stumpy... I'd think possibly S Works with the Ritchey Dropouts..

 

[one-eyed_jim]

It's a tiny Rockhopper, innit? '98-ish. With the rack mounts removed.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/files/img_0573_181.jpg

The later steel Stumpjumpers used the cast socket-style Ritchey dropouts:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43121659@N ... otostream/

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5576/r0015348.jpg

and there wasn't an oversized steel S-Works.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Now there's a man who knows his Specialized's

It is indeed SWMBO's steel framed Rockhopper, post-surgery with the angle grinder; I took off all four superfluous rack mounts to tidy up the stays, and removed the canti-hanger while I was at it as I'm fitting V's and didn't want to raise the ire of the 'redundant canti-hanger brigade' any more than was absolutely necessary!

To compound my felonious approach to this build I have already applied a set of OEM Specialized decals; for a Stumpy! :shock:

Not that I am trying to make it out to be something it isn't; I'm just making it look nice and the decals came up at a bargain price so I couldn't resist...

...and anyway, I do believe that one years' Stumpjumper became anothers' Rockhopper as the models progressed so I feel halfway vindicated :?

The specific colour request was for purple, the closest the powder coaters could get was this 'purply-pink' and it's remarkably close to the Stumpy shade into the bargain, so job done...

...I dare say the purists will still object though

 

[We_are_Stevo]

A quick update in between squalls!

I actually left the headset cups in when I took it to the powder coaters' because I wanted them the same colour as the frame; when I went to collect it he'd taken them out for me!

Sometimes people can be too helpfull... :?