The Retro thread......blasts from the past
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Ooooh and I had the old greeny blue Michellin Wildgripper XC tyres on it - looked a bit odd with the purple paint work!
Add to that Shimano DX Spds too and it was a bit of a colour mis-match!0 -
gcwebbyuk wrote:Replaced with a Carerra something - silver and purply pink with a flex stem!
A Carrera Krakatoa Flex 8) I've still got mine, just took the paint off it for a total rebuild... Under the stickers the paint was all still mint, and reminded me how nice it looked on day one. Then I spent 17 years systematically destroying it
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:oops: I even have the speedsprings in the Judy's inside condoms to stop them rattling!
An old trick recommended in MBUK if I remember correctly!0 -
gcwebbyuk wrote:Started out with an orange and black marlboro - really cheap shitty thing
Replaced with a Carerra something - silver and purply pink with a flex stem
Replaced that with a 1994 Saracen Protrax SE with Rock Shox Judy XC forks - later replaced the elastomers with Speed Springs
Added a few gadgets to it, most of which were removed over the years - the sharkfin chainstay protector, a Dave's Chain Device, Crud Catcher with cool MBUK stickers attached underneath, X-lite bits and bobs wherever I could fit them, Planet-X I-beam stem, USE seatpost, and some Mavic X517 ceramic rims on XT hubs (currently for sale).
All the LX groupset on it still works! The wife has been riding it for the last 4 months and only recently have the gears started to go wonky.
I even bought the old bright orange Mint Sauce jersey and even considered a Mint Sauce tattoo with a bike chain round my arm
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Think I may still have Dirt on VHS in my spare room too!
i still run my USE seatpost today (just like the one in your photo), back in the day they were highly rated by the likes of MBUK etc.Show me your green bits i might buy them !0 -
Not properly retro but a full rigid Stumpy that lives in my garage:
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Anybody remember the days before there was even XTR or am I showing my age now?
I remember changing all my bolts on my bike for cool purple ones - later found out that cheap alloy anodized bolts don't hold too much - the seat slid down, the chainrings loosened every 1/2 hour, the stem loosened itself and my brakes fell off - but damn did it look good!Not really active0 -
look at my xt shifters on my P7
not sure exactly how old they are but the bike is late 90's. the ace club roost stem too. i need to get some new less rusty bolts though. 0 -
Now here's a thing...
A mate of mine just posted a photo on Facebook, taken in the mid seventies of him as a youth about to start a junior cyclo-cross race in Silsden Park, near Keighley, W. Yorkshire.
One of the other lads in the picture is identified as one David Baker - turns out it was THE David Baker who used to ride with Tim Gould at Peugeot at later with the Raleigh MTB team. Apparently he had to jack it all in because of health problems.0 -
As you seem to be into retro here is current pics of my 1990 fat chance wicked lovingly restored. Hope you like.
It’s the most beautiful sport in the world but it’s governed by ***ts who have turned it into a crock of ****.0 -
Now THAT m'friend is a beauty. Are those Pace forks? Very tasteful I must say.0
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Thanks Dave quick reply! No mate they are pro-circuit forks circa 92. I bought this bike in about 91-92 and bought these forks about year later. Then sold the bike in about 95 and regretted it ever since, so in 2006 i tracked it down and bought it. back, it was in a very sorry state. Took about a year to track down new parts and get frame painted and new decals made etc.It’s the most beautiful sport in the world but it’s governed by ***ts who have turned it into a crock of ****.0
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Anything by LocalMotion, in dayglo (did they do anything other than?)
ODI attack grips
1.8 Tioga Hound Dog tyres (realy light. I'd never dented so many rims though).
Zoom brahma bars
snowflake pattern wheels0 -
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are those onza chil pils ?Show me your green bits i might buy them !0
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^^^Ooh well spotted bud god i remember lusting after those waaay back when before V brakes were even thought of!"Don't ask the reasons why cos there arent any, don't follow convention, never say no, just believe in what you see and let the good times roll!"0
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Just sold my Retro lovely my old Manitou FS loved this bike and really did not want to let it go but then along came a new bike and well one of my babies had to go and it was her
Sold it and now miss it like crazy :roll: oh well!!!
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mattyboy199 wrote:are those onza chil pils ?
Indeed they are. Well spotted. thanks for kind comments guys.It’s the most beautiful sport in the world but it’s governed by ***ts who have turned it into a crock of ****.0 -
poo monster wrote:Just sold my Retro lovely my old Manitou FS loved this bike and really did not want to let it go but then along came a new bike and well one of my babies had to go and it was her Sold it and now miss it like crazy :roll: oh well!!!
Omg, i dont think ive seen anything so sexy since i was about 12-13 years old now thats retro/old skool cool!"Don't ask the reasons why cos there arent any, don't follow convention, never say no, just believe in what you see and let the good times roll!"0 -
I love the way they almost have a set of forks for the rear suspension too - looks great!
With the amount of colours on the bike, you could almost ride to a rave with some glow-sticks strapped to your finger-less cycling gloves (even string backed!)
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This is bringing back memories.
I've just bought an old GT Tequesta to try and make up for me selling my even older Tequesta some 10 years or more back....
I have Judys ! They're lovely !
And I remember being v envious of the square Pace frames when I was racing at Leisure Lakes etc.
Other lovely bits - my X Lite - Ti finish Long bar ends - they were lovely.
Tioga disk wheels. Such noise !
Original Crud Guards.
Purple everything.
Tioga Psychos were great tyres. (at the time)
Racing the Karrimor series. And the rocky stretch at Peckforton that I couldnt ride at all.
really crappy U brakes
My park pre that replaced my GT - and its one piece bullhorn bars !
Aaah - those were the days.0 -
sachs wavey shifters,
club roost bars,
anything x-lite, god i really wanted a fly stem,
mavic 121 ceramic rims, i had to get d521's though,
max pro grips that had like a little bar end moulded on to the end,
peace sign brake cable things,
shark bite pedals (i think they were odyssey),
damn i wish i still had my bike from the mid 90's0 -
Just sold my Retro lovely my old Manitou FS loved this bike and really did not want to let it go but then along came a new bike and well one of my babies had to go and it was her Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Sold it and now miss it like crazy Rolling Eyes oh well!!!
I dont realy like many retro bikes but i must say that is a beautiful bike "Old Enough To Know Better, Young Enough Not To Care"
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shlamaprumpa wrote:sachs wavey shifters,
mavic 121 ceramic rims, i had to get d521's though,
Had 121's in an XTR-ish grey colour, and still got some d521's, also had some magical 217 Sunset rims on my Kona, was so proud of those!0 -
Reeco wrote:Just sold my Retro lovely my old Manitou FS loved this bike and really did not want to let it go but then along came a new bike and well one of my babies had to go and it was her Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Sold it and now miss it like crazy Rolling Eyes oh well!!!
I dont realy like many retro bikes but i must say that is a beautiful bike
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That is stunning. must have cost a small fortune back in the day :shock:0 -
Not sure if you can make that pic out too well, but thats an X-Lite XC riser bar (late 90s), X-Lite Stem cap and a Planet-X I-Beam stem
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i still run sachs wavey shifters, they work great ! shocking their not still made or even a newer version i also have a sach chain, pro max grips & up until about a year ago or so i had club roost go fast bars.
I have never seen anything like that manitou before looks great though, i imagine its weighs a few pounds. Do you mind if i ask how much you sold that for ? should be worht a few quid i would have thought.Show me your green bits i might buy them !0 -
mattyboy199 wrote:I have never seen anything like that manitou before looks great though, i imagine its weighs a few pounds. Do you mind if i ask how much you sold that for ? should be worht a few quid i would have thought.
With the weight side of things it was next to nothing very, very light in fact makes a lot of modern day bikes feel like elephants compared to it I actually sold it for £1,200.00 so not bad at all really 
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gcwebbyuk wrote:.... some Mavic X517 ceramic rims on XT hubs (currently for sale)...
Are they still for sale? I can't find them.
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