Bike arrived today. It's in much better condition than I was expecting to be honest. There are a few scratches on the forks, but mostly its just dusty. It still appears to have the original Deore LX brake pads and the seller said it had been in storage for about since the late 1990's.
Its a 17" / Large frame and I was slightly concerned it would be too small. Turns out the reach is only a bit shorter than my 20" stumpjumper and its similar in sizing to my cotic soul.
I'll give it a clean up over the weekend and then maybe have a re-think about respraying for now. I'm still tempted to make it orange to match the cotic - given that Cy was inspired to make the original soul by bontragers I'd quite like a matching set in garage.
First job is tyres and sourcing a seatpost, then trying to track down a template for the chain suck plate - anyone car to trace around theirs and send me the drawing?
The gripshifts will go too - got either some XTR M950 combo's or M740 shifters to go on. And if I go down the RC36 route for forks then I'll have to add v-brakes.
Just the one picture for now:
