You lot are infectious, muddy fox sorcerer 89?

[turk3y]

I only recently discovered the site and the idea of retro bikes and reliving ones youth, I have since brought 98 palisades trail for commuting, and whilst looking for a 90 pathfinder to replace my first bike (stolen) I happened across a sorcerer. It would have been rude to leave it.

I am however a novice at bike repairs let alone restoration. It's fair to say this will be more of a cleaning job and seeing were to go from there. New pedals are a must.

Here she is, I found upon getting it home that under the gel saddle bag thing was the original saddle albeit in poor state. One of my hopes is to make this better and keep it. I am also concerned about one of the rims, there is a crack in it. Are they even the original rims?

I am not sure on original spec, this seems LX with exage break leavers.

The images seen in the reverse order to my plan but you get the idea

 

[Neilios]

I think the first picture of the rims is just the joint in the rim. In the one showing the Weinmann logo, I can't decide if there's stress cracks round one of the spoke holes...

Nice find though, I don't know much about Muddy Fox, but I reckon that's almost all original barring tyres and pedals.

 

[turk3y]

It does all seem old enough to be original and it was fitted with LX from what I can make out on the scan here, although the hubs are exage on this as are the break leavers, the cantilevers just say Shimano and don't look like the LX part.

The pedals were apparently changed by the last owner as they broke, I really should have asked if they had had it since new, quite possible given their age.

Time to learn how to fully disassemble for a clean :?

 

[The History Man]

And so it begins. .....

Q. How big is your shed?

A. Not big enough.

Continue.

 

[turk3y]

And so it begins. .....

Q. How big is your shed?

A. Not big enough.

Continue.

:facepalm:
Scarily true even before this all started. This bike is currently stored in the office bike lookup as I have not located space or a viable way to bring it in un-noticed.

Need to fix and sell my modem commuter first, then will sort of have space and forgiveness.

 

[brocklanders023]

Re:

Not LX but ‘Mountain LX’ which marks it out as a 1989. It was not uncommon for some parts to be downgraded to Exage, my Saracen Tufftrax is the same with Exage crank, levers, canti’s and hubs but Mountain LX mechs + Deore thumbies.