yakboy
Manitou Fan
Well the Nishiki is now in a fit state to be shown so here goes....
Back in the late 80's and early 90's I always lusted after elevated chainstay bikes and loved reading about all the weird and wonderful bikes and forks in MBUK, but as a poor student I had to wait 5 years until I graduated to get my first mountain bike in 1993 (A Scott Superlite but that's a tale for another time). Well over the past few years I have been building a few of the bikes I lusted after in my youth and the first on my list was a Nishiki Alien SP which combined 3 of my lustings, Aluminium, square tubes and elevated chainstay.
I purchased the frame about 4 years ago from a member on here like this.
This is the original photo from the for sale post. I only purchased the frame. It had had the inevitable nishiki cracked head tube and seat tube, but these had been professionally repaired. There is a little bump on the headtube but as you will see it's hardly noticeable.
I wanted some AMP forks to go with it so got some F1's with rusty chrome legs and after a frame builder friend had cut off the canti-mounts and put on magura 4 bolt mounts I had it powdercoated to match the bike.
I hope you like it, some components are not year correct but I couldn't resist. The seatpost is a carbon monolink post which came with one of my modern full suss bikes and was surplus but I think the monolink saddle mount suits the weirdness of the nishiki
[/url]
I know it's got a lot of ano bling on it but for a first build I wanted to fulfil my early nineties ano lust..my subsequent builds are a bit more subtle..
Component List.
Frame: Nishiki Alien SP 1992
Hubs: Shimano parallax hubs (Rear Hub original to me from a bike that was stolen leaving the rear wheel in 1995).
Rims: 36 H Ambrosio Frog red ano rims NOS. Front laced radially (again fulfilling a fantasy)
Tyres: Panaracer Smoke and Dart reissue
Crank: White brothers with Suigno Chainrings
Cassette: 7 speed 11-28
Front Fork: AMP F1
Headset: Onza Mongo Aheadset
Stem: Nishiki (modern)
Bars: Ritchey Comp
Grips: Ritchey
Rear Derailleur: Shimano M735
Front Derailleur: Shimano M735
Brakes: Magura HS33 Red (Not Tomac's unfortunately)
Decals: Courtesy of Gil
Bottle cage: My original Ringle H20 (bought in 1993 in freetown sports)..Wonderfully re-anodised by rampage
Shifters: DX Thumbies (I wanted these over XT's for the silver caps)
Back in the late 80's and early 90's I always lusted after elevated chainstay bikes and loved reading about all the weird and wonderful bikes and forks in MBUK, but as a poor student I had to wait 5 years until I graduated to get my first mountain bike in 1993 (A Scott Superlite but that's a tale for another time). Well over the past few years I have been building a few of the bikes I lusted after in my youth and the first on my list was a Nishiki Alien SP which combined 3 of my lustings, Aluminium, square tubes and elevated chainstay.
I purchased the frame about 4 years ago from a member on here like this.
This is the original photo from the for sale post. I only purchased the frame. It had had the inevitable nishiki cracked head tube and seat tube, but these had been professionally repaired. There is a little bump on the headtube but as you will see it's hardly noticeable.
I wanted some AMP forks to go with it so got some F1's with rusty chrome legs and after a frame builder friend had cut off the canti-mounts and put on magura 4 bolt mounts I had it powdercoated to match the bike.
I hope you like it, some components are not year correct but I couldn't resist. The seatpost is a carbon monolink post which came with one of my modern full suss bikes and was surplus but I think the monolink saddle mount suits the weirdness of the nishiki
I know it's got a lot of ano bling on it but for a first build I wanted to fulfil my early nineties ano lust..my subsequent builds are a bit more subtle..
Component List.
Frame: Nishiki Alien SP 1992
Hubs: Shimano parallax hubs (Rear Hub original to me from a bike that was stolen leaving the rear wheel in 1995).
Rims: 36 H Ambrosio Frog red ano rims NOS. Front laced radially (again fulfilling a fantasy)
Tyres: Panaracer Smoke and Dart reissue
Crank: White brothers with Suigno Chainrings
Cassette: 7 speed 11-28
Front Fork: AMP F1
Headset: Onza Mongo Aheadset
Stem: Nishiki (modern)
Bars: Ritchey Comp
Grips: Ritchey
Rear Derailleur: Shimano M735
Front Derailleur: Shimano M735
Brakes: Magura HS33 Red (Not Tomac's unfortunately)
Decals: Courtesy of Gil
Bottle cage: My original Ringle H20 (bought in 1993 in freetown sports)..Wonderfully re-anodised by rampage
Shifters: DX Thumbies (I wanted these over XT's for the silver caps)
