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My Trek Y custom painted frame and fork Beanfield1980 1997 Trek Y https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/trek-y-build.433310/page-5#post-3300736

Congratulations amazing bike

Beanfield1980 gt zaskar le Thought I may as well throw my Zaskar back in 🥰 https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/gt-zaskar-le.432731/

Thank you buddy I was worried when building it about the wheels as I thought it would have to be carbon spoked wheels to make it look good but I really like it with the spox, I think the black spokes help too. your right though so many of them look ugly, I think that is what I liked to be...

Wow they are light tires I’ve never heard of them i used to run furious threats back in the day but they don’t offer much grip insanely fast though. I think the race King is a real good mix of light fast and comfortable in most trail conditions I think they are 460 g. I weighed my latex tubes...

Thank you 😊 I use latex tubes I can’t quite remember what they weigh but I might try some of the tubolitos, how do they roll? I know when I went to the latex over standard tube it was like the feeling of tubless almost. I have a few bikes most of them run tubeless

I thought I would add a few updates on the build as a few things have changed, after riding the trek I was really impressed with how she rode for an old bike so I decided to do a few bits to make her a little lighter, faster and a bit more trail friendly! So I decided to single ring the chainset...

Hi there I recently rebuilt a trek Y with new bushings and a rock shox monarch and it rides great! My bushings are from a company called offset bushings, they do all sorts of bushings and custom made to any frame mine are offset so it slackens the head angle and lowers the bottom bracket too, It...

Hi I’m all sorted but thank you

It took a lot to make it my own after your dad built such amazing looking bike

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

And she’s finished I’m really happy with this build and it actually rides great too! I was going to build it full on weight weenie but then I picked up the white tyres, white grips and the carbon matrix stem too which were all a bit heavier than what I had planned, so I changed a few more bits...

Had a day off today so I thought I would have a bit of time on the bike, so I decided to have a go at making some decals for my crank arms and the avid brake levers, this was obviously incredibly awkward trying to make decals so small but I’m really happy with the results. My XTR shifters have...

A few little updates on the build! Things have been moving along nicely just collecting parts and I think I just about have everything ordered or on the way to finish the bike 😬 I did decide to go for a full carbon finishing kit but finding retro carbon and then trusting 20 year old carbon is...