I picked up this frame as a result of a chance meeting with an ex. I had bought the bike for her years ago and forgotten all about it.
She was moving and needed to shift it from her bike shed.
It was in a very sorry state....
I removed what was scrap....and was just left with the frame!! It cleaned up a treat though....
I had originally planned to build this up as a winter hack, but an extremely generous gesture from a friend of mine who lives in Abu Dhabi made me re-think things.
I've been looking after his Technics turntables and Denon mixer for a while now. He bought himself a complete new set up this month and told me to keep his old stuff! There is easy £700 of equipment there but he wont take a penny for it.
I decided instead to build him a bike. He's been talking about buying a hybrid to use while he's in Abu Dhabi so I set about building this frame up as exactly that.
We've been mates since school and he loves my retro bikes, so I went for a proper mix of parts!
I sourced some Kinesis forks, a new headset and some rather nice Mavic Cross Lands from ebay. I'm also waiting on an M952 XTR rear mech and a new Race Face chainset and bottom bracket.
I already had a set of minty XT thumbies, the X-lite L168 stem (still not sure on this though :? ), the Easton bars, Control Tech bar-ends, a pair of NOS M739 brake levers, a set of BB7 cable disc callipers and a very low mileage M737 8 speed cassette.
This is the progress today....
Still need to find a seat post, but hoping to get this all tied up over the next week or so!
She was moving and needed to shift it from her bike shed.
It was in a very sorry state....
I removed what was scrap....and was just left with the frame!! It cleaned up a treat though....
I had originally planned to build this up as a winter hack, but an extremely generous gesture from a friend of mine who lives in Abu Dhabi made me re-think things.
I've been looking after his Technics turntables and Denon mixer for a while now. He bought himself a complete new set up this month and told me to keep his old stuff! There is easy £700 of equipment there but he wont take a penny for it.
I decided instead to build him a bike. He's been talking about buying a hybrid to use while he's in Abu Dhabi so I set about building this frame up as exactly that.
We've been mates since school and he loves my retro bikes, so I went for a proper mix of parts!
I sourced some Kinesis forks, a new headset and some rather nice Mavic Cross Lands from ebay. I'm also waiting on an M952 XTR rear mech and a new Race Face chainset and bottom bracket.
I already had a set of minty XT thumbies, the X-lite L168 stem (still not sure on this though :? ), the Easton bars, Control Tech bar-ends, a pair of NOS M739 brake levers, a set of BB7 cable disc callipers and a very low mileage M737 8 speed cassette.
This is the progress today....
Still need to find a seat post, but hoping to get this all tied up over the next week or so!
