B'Twin Rockrider 8.1/ye olde Specialized Hardrock

matt_87

Not terribly exciting or exotic, but it does the job nicely for me 8)

Only upgrades so far are a pair of Swalbe Nobby Nics (came with a pair of near useless Conti semi-slicks), DMR V12 pedals and a Mucky Nutz front mudguard.



Also picked up this for not much a few weeks ago due to it having a stuck seat post, it's a 1992 Specialized Hardrock. The plan is to fix it up as a back up bike, currently in the process of melting the broken post out with caustic soda as all other methods have failed...

pesky_jones

haha thats gnarly, oldest hardrock frame i've seen!

The Rookie

Is it a hardrock? the rear dropouts and (what looks like) a horseshoe clamp mech attachment doesn't look right to me.....

pesky_jones

The Beginner wrote:

Is it a hardrock? the rear dropouts and (what looks like) a horseshoe clamp mech attachment doesn't look right to me.....

Had a look on google, it seems to have the same dropouts as the 93 from what i can make out, and could that horseshoe clamp have been attached? Heads on retro bike might know.

chez_m356

looks like the 1993 version

and a 2010 8.1

pesky_jones

I think this a 93 as well and the dropouts look the same

matt_87

I'm already on Retrobike, the general consensus on there if I recall was that it's probably a '92, though I don't think there was any changes between that and the '93 so it could be either. The seat post is proving to be a proper sod to remove, but I am getting there!

2010 sounds about right for the Rockrider (that's what I've always assumed it was, anyway), it's the one with a Tora 302 and Avid Juicy 2s, rather than the current one which I believe now has a Recon shock and Elixir 3s.

matt_87

chez_m356 wrote:

looks like the 1993 version

Bloody hell, wish mine looked as tidy as that!