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1990 Eldridge Grade The Melon Marin

Today i took the melon marin on a bit of an adventure onto the worlds least interesting singletrack its very green

I would love one of these or the later castellano zorro. John Castellano (the guy who designed these frames for ibis) is an absolute legend, i have a castellano fango which is effectively a first gen ibis ripley, and ive been looking for a Szazbo or a zorro to add to my collection. If i was in...

Like man, if this was my size? I know these hard rock ultras are 10/10 stuff, but im tall so 19" is not enough. Every time 90's MTB's show up on craigslist its usually something cool, i dont see a whole lot of random mid tier stuff. Its either walmart bikes or cool stuff like this

I live in indiana close to chicago, home territory of oldschool Schwinn So ive got access to basically every schwinn model ever made, they make up half the craigslist easily refer to the images, i could just keep scrolling and theres more schwinns, they dont end otherwise theres some cool small...

even more biek in the woods this time with background music so its not just me breathing into my gopro i was indeed jamming out to ace of base for the entirely of their 1993 album The Sign but that will get immediately taken down by copyright so you get jaga jazzist

Todays ride, wandering around a bit of trail I haven’t done before

The touch up paint won’t be god tier but from here you can’t tell

Ok finally, M560 derailleur and brand new old stock jockey wheels Looks way nicer imo Gonna touch up the paint and it’s done

Don’t bother with anything that’s carbon composite constructed, like carbon tubes and aluminum joints. The bonding in the joints can fail and just degrades over time to where it wouldn’t be trustworthy for anything more than very mild trails.

1x7 done I think I could go with a narrower bb, I used a 113mm one, but this could easily do 108, but it does all 7 fine like this Shimano deore lx 560 cranks with a 42t origin8 chainring Ignore that one slightly different chainring bolt, I totally didn’t snap one, definitely not

Ehhh I tried doing this early on, I got a Cannondale trail 6 and tried to make it a do everything bike, and it’s just not that. So I got different bikes for different purposes. The Cannondale became the dedicated mountain bike, a 1990 Marin became the commute around town bike, instead of trying...

Todays ride, a lot of scooting around the woods testing out GoPro settings

The derailleur body got lost in the mail, so I’ve ordered yet another M560 deraileur, and I’ll just use my parts from the first one to replace anything on the third one that needs replacement… Anyway, cranks These have stripped extractor threads on the non drive side and the extractor threads...