1988 Rocky Mountain Avalanche - oh Canada

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Some bits are not as tidy as I'd hoped
29 years of patina has a certain charm to it
 
Re: Oh Canada

That is the plan, I will touch up the rust and give it a good clean

I stripped the frame down, unfortunately the 6sp XT is stuffed
Plan B, mix and match with 89 7sp
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The wheels I'm still a little conflicted on but leaning towards
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Also, if anyone has a spare 100-120 early syncros/Brodie/salsa stem in their stash, please PM me
 
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Nice! The RS1 looks mint
 
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raidan73":1poijymq said:
Nice! The RS1 looks mint
I thought that might be a little controversial, actually

Big thanks to Pete for the stem, he was a champ to send this out from America for this project
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I've been buying a few modern reproduction parts, as I plan to use this bike
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off topic, but had to ask. what happened to your SS project??? you had fabricated so much, and the thread just ended without a conclusion.
 
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gotta admit, that stem looks better on your Avalanche than it looked on my Yo. Curious to know how that bike made it to NZ though?!?
 
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RockiMtn":29vtesd5 said:
off topic, but had to ask. what happened to your SS project??? you had fabricated so much, and the thread just ended without a conclusion.

Basically I lost heart, I found some major issues with the frame, so I bought another doner frame with the intension of brazing the horizontal dropouts into that.

That in turn sat in my garage untouched for ages, then this happened

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I rode it for a bit, then moved it on to another local RB member
To many other projects.........


PeteC":29vtesd5 said:
gotta admit, that stem looks better on your Avalanche than it looked on my Yo. Curious to know how that bike made it to NZ though?!?

This bike appeared on a local auction site. The seller is a plastic kayak moulder who was selling up his business in retirement.
I believe he bought the bike new in Canada on a sales trip. He used it well, then it became a hand me down school bike for his children and ultimately sat untouched in the corner for who knows how long.
 
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