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mrkawasaki
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Nice old thread - good recall! That bike's a bit too Buck Rodgers - even for my tastes!

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put them on your Ritchey...I have a nice 1" mavic headset that would go nicely :wink:
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cchris2lou wrote:
This one


Good call Chris. It does have a touch of the Buck Rogers about it that would work well with Mavic.

Go on, do an all French build.
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i believe in fixies wrote:
Go on, do an all French build.


With Sachs brakes - it could be done. Handlebars,saddle and spokes might have to be compromised though. Contemplated the idea myself TBH.

I'd be thinking on the lines of LOOK.
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mrkawasaki
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I could get this Grisley project back out again... it's a bit new mind...

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/mai ... emId=34809

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cchris2lou
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not sure on brakes , are the Sachs cantis ?

saddle would be fairly easy , Ideale would be an option .

same with handlebar , used to be a french company doing carbon fiber bars in the early 90s , called Barflex i think .
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Rich
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I couldn't believe it when I saw the price...glad you got it mate :)
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cchris2lou wrote:
not sure on brakes , are the Sachs cantis ?


Yes. They were the same in Quarz and New Success ATB. Pretty much clones of Dia-Compe 987s but smaller. Levers were very odd-looking though.

The hard bit will be finding any as they were not particularly popular. In my 15 years of MTBing,I've only ever seen 2 pairs fitted to bikes and one of them was mine. And they got nicked when I fitted them to a bike that the wife forgot to lock.....
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With mavic groupo : Greg lemond ti frame ! :lol:
If you really want a Sunn, hard to find, but the first Sunn riden by Gilles Sanders, with Vitus Rocky steel tubing (1991-92) all mavic groupo equiped.

But, is it really PGD rims ? If yes, you should find a frame before 1990. 88, 89… Because these big rims became "M281" around 1990 and the mavic MTB hubs were laced on the first M231 ceramic rims…
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If it's really PGD rims, a good old style steel frame, with U-brakes bosses under the chainstays :D
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like this lemond :wink:
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