So I have had this for a while.
Bought It as a Frame and fork on a whim when I had some spare cash in the paypal account, I knew it needed some Love and Care but these were the bikes of dreams as a kid and I had to own the dream, I seem to remember these were £1500 new back then
My intension was to see to any rust issues and throw some spares bucket parts on it and use as a classy hack. so off it went to my frame guy for his professional opinion...
few days later it was back in my possesion, repaired and ready to be built up
BUT........... nearly 3 years later

I had finally found the time to build it up with some excess Deore XT and took it for a spin to see how it rides and get some photos.


Not sure this fits in with the rest of my retro rides but glad its built up
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Stabled = 91 Browning Test unit XT- 87 Chas Roberts Snow Leopard DX - 88 Overbury's pioneer Deore II- 89 Bromwich Mtn LX- Dave Yates Diabolo XT - Mk1 Thorn Nomad LX - Thorn Raven tour Rohloff -Dave Hinde 653 DX - Dave hinde disc XT - frontiera 531 DX - 92 orange clockwork LX - 88 Marin Palisades Exage - 89 Marin Palisades Mtn LX - 85 F.W.Evans XT - Gilles Berthoud - Dawes Wildcat exage - Araya 1984 - Ridgeback 1985