1993 Doug Bradbury Manitou FS

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Thought I'd share a nice early DBM FS I'm working on. A rare NOS survivor that never got built up that I have the please to gingerly try and put together for the first time.

As I found the bike

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A detailed search through the parts pile revealed an NOS Answer Manitou 2 fork slated for this frame (same name written on frame an fork box). The fork is neat as it has a custom Titanium threadless steerer and 105mm dropout spacing, the latter something I've never seen on a late production Answer fork. The frame rear is 145mm BTW.

Moving on, I dug up an NOS hubset, custom modified M900 rear and a custom made front hub. The BB is a 145mm Cook Bros Titanium, a custom threadless DBM stem, modified Ringle/DBM post, modified M900 front derailleur and extra long Ringle QRs round out the special parts lot.

I should have taken some better pics, but here is the start of the build thus far.

Rear end during an overhaul and rebuild

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Fuselage starting to come together

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Refreshing some Grafton parts

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Oh yeah. A great start, nice to see your method, and taking old parts and cleaning them up so nicely. More more more please!!
 
Always wanted a Manitou after building one up for customer at LBS back in the day......this looks awesome though Martin, love it.
 
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Could you give us your secret for finding so rare and amazing bikes ?
:LOL:
 
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