Jaggs wrote:
I always always wanted one of these, practically lusted after one whilst drooling through MBUK. How times change.... great frame, very jealous.
Cheers Jaggs
This and the 8900 were proper 'poster bikes' or the era, although I remember the white & blue 8000 aluminium more in MBUK - the cover gatefold ad was probably on quite a few teenagers walls!
There was one of the 8000 Aluminium on here in the FS section recently.
It was the gate sized 22" frame but the receipt and sales sticker was from Get Pedallin cycles in Colchester.... My bike shop of choice all those years ago.
Once A Hero wrote:
Good job on tracking down the doohickey!
Sounds like it'll be a nice build.
Any idea what BB length you'll need? The one on my 8000 is crazy long at c.132mm

and was hard to track down.
Cheers Pete.
Thought I'd take some pics of this to confirm.
You sure you've got that right? The bottom bracket I have installed is a 127mm ( pic with digital calipers to confirm )
This, and the DX groupset came from that '92 Stumpjumper that you had a few parts from. There's good clearance on both sides of the chain stays. Again, pics to confirm. Wasn't aware that they made a bottom bracket in that axle width.... So was understandably anxious that I'd not done my research and what I'd planned to use wouldn't fit.
Just awaiting the 'doohickey' to finish the cabling up.
RetroRider_IT wrote:
Hi Ben,
that's cool

I'm very interested on your rebuild,
your plan sounds perfect in full compliance with original spec.
All the best

Marco, thanks again for the sale on this. (PM received

)
All being good, 1st ride this weekend and like the Saracen, watch it develop. You know me, I'm a sucker for period correct.... But also adding my own 'take' which is subtle enough to look 'Factory' but is slightly different if you look close up.
Rfriend1975 wrote:
Very nice. There's a Trek from this era at my local train station in the mornings (pre Covid-19). Always takes me back...
Great seeing these treks still about. The train station always seems a good place to see an example of your 1st MTB - I recently saw a Bickerton Mean Green at ours.
Cheers all.
Here's pics of that bottom bracket/cranks and progress as of yesterday.
boy"O"boy