Show us your slick tyred MTBS

marge602 · Feb 16, 2013

Having got some info about my RX100 levers from the retro road section of rb, I think they're late 90's. As you'd expect, you have to be fairly deliberate with them, but the shifting is spot on. Could be because the levers and rear mech are from the same era though. Gonna keep an eye out on here for a front mech to match.

Marge

ishaw · Feb 16, 2013

My current project, a local towpath and kid carrying cruiser. Still in progress, but will be sporting mudguards, a rack and kids seat on the back.

Grockel · Feb 17, 2013

marge602":20eur2fb said:
Edge of the road. Harringworth viaduct, Rutland.

Recently built as a winter bike/commuter. First decent ride on it today. It's an absolute joy to ride too. What with all the flood water and snow melt washing all sorts of crud onto the roads around here, my road bike would've been a slightly worrying prospect. However, the Edge OTR I can just thrash. Which, I suppose, is exactly what it was designed for.

Marge

Love this bike

gtRTSdh · Feb 17, 2013

troje":1mj3dsnc said:
it takes 5 minutes to switch knobby tires to slicks...

Loving this, such a clean look.

Mr Panda":1mj3dsnc said:
1992 Cinder Cone

...and in off road form...

Great photo, I love the look of paired spaokes.

cornholio's RC200 · Feb 17, 2013

My Pace with Schwalbe City Jets

Perfect for dry tracks like the Trans Pennine Trail (when it is dry :roll

hamster · Feb 17, 2013

NeilM":1lwo4ym8 said:
Interesting, as I thought road shifters were not a good match with mtb mechs.

I may have to do some experiments with my drop bar project.

The problem is with front ones only. Rear are exactly the same. If you clamp the cable on the wrong side of the bolt on the front it works fine. File in a new cable clamp groove to help it grip. There is stuff about this mon on the CTC website.

adri.75 · Feb 18, 2013

my klein attitude (actually of my wife

)

Lester Luallin · Feb 22, 2013

Still a work in progress. Went with 700c cuz there's a bit of brake sleeve stuck on one of the canti studs. I'm thinking Clement X'Plor USH might be next set of tyres.

With slicks a couple of weeks ago.

team marin by Lester.Luallin, on Flickr

With CX rubber the other day.

Untitled by Lester.Luallin, on Flickr

retroyetirigid · Feb 22, 2013

My Kona Fire Mountain with Conti Gran Prix 1" slicks. Was a bit rapid

but a bit under geared

with a 42/11 top gear. Needed at least a 46 chainring to make the most of it.

velomaniac · Feb 22, 2013

No picture of mine as they were in my past before retro bike. I did it though because I seen a courier bike shackled to railings on Princes Street, Edinburgh in 1996 with 26 x 1.5" slicks and thought it the coolest thing ever. Went out that same day and scoured the shops for a set, eventually found Nokian City Slickers and slapped them on my retired Townsend mtb, it gave that bike a new lease of life, nippy and well braked

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