what £20 and a car trip gets you!

[trailstar82]

Fellow RB chums, I picked up this sad creature 2 weeks ago from Marketplace 30mins down the road and a pleasant drive.

I was obviously drawn to the cannondale forks and they were the only reason for buying it to be honest, there’s very little else going for it at this point!

The bike is a mess, alloy rawed and no distinctive markings or characteristics to identify it. The ridiculously wide zoom bars make me puke in my mouth every time I wheel this thing about. Anyways, on closer inspection the wheels are more interesting.

Sun Levanter 36h 26” & 32mm wide alloy rims. They are laced into Maillard (23 88?) hubs and have a 5 speed block with a cannondale guard.


I assume these were standard issue in the earlier days of cannondale but I’d be interested if anyone knows more about these? Were they a bmx rim that jumped on the mtb bandwagon?

Wonky fm cable stop!

It’s a weird old thing and it may become the town/shop bike that can get stolen with little regret. What do I do with this?

 

[Imlach]

For 20 quid you could have gotten a signed portrait of me

And I'd even have posted it for free

Frame looks alright.. Put some black components on, keep it raaaaaw and ride it

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Single speed BMX cruiser?

 

[trailstar82]

Single speed BMX cruiser?

Like that idea @Mickeyspinn

Thinking about de-lacing and polishing the rims first to see how they come up.

 

[KermitGKona88]

Screw on Maillard hubs re-space the axle and re-dish the wheel, screw on a BMX cog and Robert's your Mothers brother...

 

[zetecmk2]

in 2000 i was in china, i was also into trials bikes, there was a trials team who shared the stage with us at a festival. they had frames like this. i didn't even know china made good frames. crude....but never saw one fail. could be?

 

[trailstar82]

in 2000 i was in china, i was also into trials bikes, there was a trials team who shared the stage with us at a festival. they had frames like this. i didn't even know china made good frames. crude....but never saw one fail. could be?

Could be, the welding is quite “industrial”

 

[Luke26mhz]

Fatty R forks

 

[trailstar82]

Quick update on this one.
- Wheels have a single cog now
- bars are Renthal junior mx from gumtree
- bmx stem
- set of lovely marzocchis
- use ti post and a chez lounge
- RaceFace evolve for the spinny bits

 

[Imlach]

Quick update on this one.
- Wheels have a single cog now
- bars are Renthal junior mx from gumtree
- bmx stem
- set of lovely marzocchis
- use ti post and a chez lounge
- RaceFace evolve for the spinny bits

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That looks fecking ace

Love it. Nice touch with the red spacer and the red bits on the seat postie.

Remember to add plenty of delicious wet stuff when adding grips to the textured bit of the bars, or get a set of cheap MX grips which would look the part on this.