I always had a crush on Sunn bikes since I started to throw myself into mountain bikes world.
this one has been one of my "dream bikes" when I was 16.
but I wasn't really into 90's MTB anymore since early 2000, but a friend of mine gave me back the virus after an australian trip where he litterally discovered mountain bike and told me about it with shining crystals in his eyes.
then, I found a french forum dedicated to sunn brand, another one, then retrobike etc etc etc
I spent a lot of time hanging around into member's gallery, and step by step the idea of building this dream bike grew up in my mind.
starting point of this build is a fork, the sunn chaos XC
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my holy graal when I was young
but a fork alone doesn't make a dream bike, then I saw a picture of gilles sanders in the 95' catalog a few years ago.
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full XTR M900, too classy for me, specially when I saw this picture of ludovic dubau
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I felt in love with red tri align, they match so well with the frame colour !
took me a while to collect parts, to sand the frame and respray it, specially when I took a one year break in australia
everything was at my parent's place, while I was far away, even when I came back to france I was 1300 km far :facepalm:
but I went to visit my family for christmas, during short 4 days.
I kept half a day to build the whole bike ....
...and I did it :xmas-wink:
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it is almost as I wanted it to be
to be perfect I need decals, 117 ceramic instead of 121's, and a pair of red skewers![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
hope you'll enjoy
this one has been one of my "dream bikes" when I was 16.
but I wasn't really into 90's MTB anymore since early 2000, but a friend of mine gave me back the virus after an australian trip where he litterally discovered mountain bike and told me about it with shining crystals in his eyes.
then, I found a french forum dedicated to sunn brand, another one, then retrobike etc etc etc
I spent a lot of time hanging around into member's gallery, and step by step the idea of building this dream bike grew up in my mind.
starting point of this build is a fork, the sunn chaos XC
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi76.servimg.com%2Fu%2Ff76%2F16%2F47%2F08%2F80%2Fsunnch10.jpg&hash=804715dc09fe461960b8813ffaf13ce6)
my holy graal when I was young
but a fork alone doesn't make a dream bike, then I saw a picture of gilles sanders in the 95' catalog a few years ago.
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg525.imageshack.us%2Fimg525%2F7986%2F95x28.jpg&hash=f54792b33af613514f5611a38dfe7f72)
full XTR M900, too classy for me, specially when I saw this picture of ludovic dubau
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fimg580.imageshack.us%2Fimg580%2F7562%2Fnumari14.jpg&hash=77f67a7937065f8284999a53e5bf5509)
I felt in love with red tri align, they match so well with the frame colour !
took me a while to collect parts, to sand the frame and respray it, specially when I took a one year break in australia
everything was at my parent's place, while I was far away, even when I came back to france I was 1300 km far :facepalm:
but I went to visit my family for christmas, during short 4 days.
I kept half a day to build the whole bike ....
...and I did it :xmas-wink:
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi76.servimg.com%2Fu%2Ff76%2F16%2F47%2F08%2F80%2Fp1020312.jpg&hash=ffe46608e319c208fba195c291b5883d)
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it is almost as I wanted it to be
to be perfect I need decals, 117 ceramic instead of 121's, and a pair of red skewers
hope you'll enjoy