br0qn
Retro Guru
Since picking up the '94 Race (thread to come soon for that one) things have shuffled a bit. Having a Race and Race Lite of nearly the same vintage I decided I should go sort of weight weenie with the Race Lite so many of the parts intended for this build are now destined for the Race and I've gone a little off the rails collecting parts for this and the other 2 concurrent projects (the Race and the Merlin)
Some of the Suntour group is now going on the Race so I picked up some m900 for this Race Lite. I found an excellent shape cassette and NOS brake cables. The NOS shift cables I don't think are m900 but same grey casing so should match up nice. Still planning to use my 8speed XC Pro shifters though, I love them.
Also found decent shape brakes/mechs. The pulleys have some play so these NOS Vueltas will go in to help freshen things up and a rollamajig because I think they're cool. Should(?) make a difference in shifting and clean up the rear mech cable at the very least.
and then I lost all control and started collecting (more) Ti bits including some sweet brake posts courtesy of @synlos, hardware for the brake calipers, a mech hanger bolt and pulley bolts.
A nice pair of 2nd gen Paul levers (thank you @viengsavanh ) turned up here in the classifieds and I gladly picked them up, Little "P" decal en route from Gil. The modern set I have on the OR are such a pleasure to use so I didn't really hesitate to grab these. Also from @synlos comes the cable hanger with a Ti ferrule ;D and I scored a NOS set of DKG Strongarms which aren't the lightest boosters but they are period correct enough (even though from a 20xx run the first was ~89 or so) were machined within a few miles of Santa Cruz and ought to look the business here.
I lost a little patience trying to find the matching NOS Real middle 32t ring. There is/was a 34t on ebay but I'm not anywhere near desperate enough to pay the $100 . Profile racing has a bunch of NOS rings for $20 each so I picked up silver a 32t to use but then I started imagining a blacked out crankset to go with some of the other black bits coming in. I had these Tioga bolts and found a NOS 42t Shimano ring so I also picked up a pair of Profile Racing black inner/middle rings (the outer ring they offer I don't love.) The big ring doesn't want to sit perfectly aligned on the F type spider and looks like it's just barely hanging up on the crank arm so I'll need to file a tiny bit of the ring but they should come together looking as good as I'd hoped.
The silver Real/Profile ringset will go to a different crank and onto the Race.
So it's gone a bit boutique but all of the CNC stuff (well the WTB hanger is repop but close enough) comes from the same area as the frame. The black Chris King headset does too and if I can find some Black CK 32h hubs I'll be nearly ready.
Some of the Suntour group is now going on the Race so I picked up some m900 for this Race Lite. I found an excellent shape cassette and NOS brake cables. The NOS shift cables I don't think are m900 but same grey casing so should match up nice. Still planning to use my 8speed XC Pro shifters though, I love them.
Also found decent shape brakes/mechs. The pulleys have some play so these NOS Vueltas will go in to help freshen things up and a rollamajig because I think they're cool. Should(?) make a difference in shifting and clean up the rear mech cable at the very least.
and then I lost all control and started collecting (more) Ti bits including some sweet brake posts courtesy of @synlos, hardware for the brake calipers, a mech hanger bolt and pulley bolts.
A nice pair of 2nd gen Paul levers (thank you @viengsavanh ) turned up here in the classifieds and I gladly picked them up, Little "P" decal en route from Gil. The modern set I have on the OR are such a pleasure to use so I didn't really hesitate to grab these. Also from @synlos comes the cable hanger with a Ti ferrule ;D and I scored a NOS set of DKG Strongarms which aren't the lightest boosters but they are period correct enough (even though from a 20xx run the first was ~89 or so) were machined within a few miles of Santa Cruz and ought to look the business here.
I lost a little patience trying to find the matching NOS Real middle 32t ring. There is/was a 34t on ebay but I'm not anywhere near desperate enough to pay the $100 . Profile racing has a bunch of NOS rings for $20 each so I picked up silver a 32t to use but then I started imagining a blacked out crankset to go with some of the other black bits coming in. I had these Tioga bolts and found a NOS 42t Shimano ring so I also picked up a pair of Profile Racing black inner/middle rings (the outer ring they offer I don't love.) The big ring doesn't want to sit perfectly aligned on the F type spider and looks like it's just barely hanging up on the crank arm so I'll need to file a tiny bit of the ring but they should come together looking as good as I'd hoped.
The silver Real/Profile ringset will go to a different crank and onto the Race.
So it's gone a bit boutique but all of the CNC stuff (well the WTB hanger is repop but close enough) comes from the same area as the frame. The black Chris King headset does too and if I can find some Black CK 32h hubs I'll be nearly ready.
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