Joe*Pro
Senior Retro Guru
Time to begin this thread and live at the start of the build for a change, as I’m in need of some help with parts identification…
For those of you who have read my previous JMC M2 build that took 5 years, you might recall at the start of that I had 2 posters of choice on my teenage bedroom wall that I could have gone with replicating:
1) The classic ‘Dirt Video’ cover bike, the June 1995 Specialized S-works M2 TEAM edition.
2) The earlier May 1994 Specialized S-works FSR pictured below, of him doing what the article says was his 1st official downhill race under his newly acquired Specialized sponsorship deal. It was the first Grundig race of the 1994 season at Cap D’Ail in the south of France, just next to Monaco.
As a pair they are almost his first & last Specialized sponsorship bikes if you will, JMC Specialized bookends !!
Since the 1995 M2 has been built now, it seems rude not to attempt the 1994 FSR, particularly given I have a bunch of spare parts kept for the M2 that might as well be resting on a frame rather than in a draw !
I’m keen to try make them as different as possible as well, as generally I prefer not to have any 2 bikes in the stable that are too similar parts wise, so I can try a bit of everything.
From the time I started the M2 build in early 2018, a 1994 red/yellow FSR frame came up even less often than the TEAM M2 frames, (2 v 5 I think) until that is @Once A Hero decided to graciously let his NOS version go.
It seems a number of us on here have had a go on her across the last decade, a bit like the village bicycle if you will. It’s lineage as best I can work out is:
Owner/Date from:
@Joe*Pro Sep 2022 (This JMC tribute build)
@Once A Hero July 2020 (built it up catalogue spec)
@jjwood Sep 2011 (had frame on gym wall)
@mkozaczek (saw it in Larry’s shop 2001)
@Larry Black (had it in his shop)
For those of you who have read my previous JMC M2 build that took 5 years, you might recall at the start of that I had 2 posters of choice on my teenage bedroom wall that I could have gone with replicating:
1) The classic ‘Dirt Video’ cover bike, the June 1995 Specialized S-works M2 TEAM edition.
2) The earlier May 1994 Specialized S-works FSR pictured below, of him doing what the article says was his 1st official downhill race under his newly acquired Specialized sponsorship deal. It was the first Grundig race of the 1994 season at Cap D’Ail in the south of France, just next to Monaco.
As a pair they are almost his first & last Specialized sponsorship bikes if you will, JMC Specialized bookends !!
Since the 1995 M2 has been built now, it seems rude not to attempt the 1994 FSR, particularly given I have a bunch of spare parts kept for the M2 that might as well be resting on a frame rather than in a draw !
I’m keen to try make them as different as possible as well, as generally I prefer not to have any 2 bikes in the stable that are too similar parts wise, so I can try a bit of everything.
From the time I started the M2 build in early 2018, a 1994 red/yellow FSR frame came up even less often than the TEAM M2 frames, (2 v 5 I think) until that is @Once A Hero decided to graciously let his NOS version go.
It seems a number of us on here have had a go on her across the last decade, a bit like the village bicycle if you will. It’s lineage as best I can work out is:
Owner/Date from:
@Joe*Pro Sep 2022 (This JMC tribute build)
@Once A Hero July 2020 (built it up catalogue spec)
@jjwood Sep 2011 (had frame on gym wall)
@mkozaczek (saw it in Larry’s shop 2001)
@Larry Black (had it in his shop)
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