Slingshot 1990

Hi all,

here I will start an new thread with a slingshot from 1990. Some of you know me. There are some Slings in my collection.




Here is the last one that I found. It was in a bad condition, I can pull the color in stripes from the frame, deep scratches, rust and chainsuck, a small dent, broken decals .... so at the end I gave the frame to an professional glass bead blasting factory. Then a smaltalk with my painter. The new paintjob is candy red with three layers of clearcoat at the end. What a color, wow.
The weather here is not so good, as soon as its better, I will make some better highres pics.
And sorry for my english, I'm shure that's not the best, but I will gave my best, hope you can understand all what I mean













Now, I need some help from you, I'm looking for some parts, stem, seatpost, handlebar, cranks, I think I will use not black. Don't know witch breakes. Don't what XT. Any ideas?

Greetings Stefan

very nice collection stefan.
and i guess you will do another great job on this one too.
if you´ll need the stem we talked about in the past, let me know and you can have it.
but tell me fast, i´ll be away for quiet some time.

cheers kay

thanks Kay, but don't need it, here you see why.

oha! interesting!

That looks VERY interesting.

Are you going to go modern running gear or retro?

Have a look here for some drop bar inspiration: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=94356

Worth posting some pictures in that thread, you are sure to get a reaction :shock:

oh great, pics comming soon, thank you very much.

I have just finished a drop bar Rourke. I ended up using a combination of road and mtb gears / brakes etc, but if I had used a square taper bottom bracket I could have got away with road cranks, front mech and rear mech.

Bar end shifters are popular, or thumbie's, if you can find or make the mounting brackets.

Hi,

I will use this one, don't know exactly what levers.



Breaks maybe Controltech, RPM, MRC or Footworks.
Rear and front mech XT 730. Hope this works :?

Nice.

The trick with the shifters seems to be getting the amount of cable pull to match the F&R mechs.

I used SRAM Rival shifters and as all SRAM mechs have a 1:1 pull, I was able to change the front Rival (road) mech for an X7 (mtb) mech and get it all to work... just about.

It should be a fun project, my Rourke gave me plenty to think about along the way.

Are you the same guy who bought the two Lawwill leaders off me in NZ last year?