Recent content by karlomanx

At last I have the answer to a question that has nagged me for 15 years ! When I started having an interest in vintage mountain bikes, I quickly got a soft spot for the very early stuff for reasons too long to explain here (and who cares ?!). And when I finally found the "bike of my dreams"...

stumpjumper1990, I'm surprised to see a Peugeot amongst your other beauties ! I also own one, Crazy Horse model, of course not because I get excited with it but because they were the first available MTBs here in France from 1984 on. It's in a sorry state but it'll get restaured someday ...

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Thanks to the ones who unearthed this thread, I simply forgot aboutit it, shame on me, :oops: This gives me the opportunity to post my own bike as I finally found one dating from 1985. It's a french Bertin, mostly known for their roadbikes. If I'm not mistaken it was sort of equivalent to...

I hope your girlfriend is tall enough because those Rockhoppers are quite long. Mine seems to be the same size as yours and it's almost 59cm long. The good thing about RHs of that generation is the very reasonable weight at around 12kg Cheers Karl

Very easy choice this month ! That Claud Butler is the thing, true retrobike ! The others are, well, pardon me but, nice second hand bicycles :oops: Cheers Karl

Here's mine, 1989 or 1990, 100% original. Cheers Karl

Toomski 1- the answer is in my signature but just for your pleasure here's pics of some of my favs :wink: : 1979 Peugeot PKN10 (in fact I own 2 identical ones, just in case !) that replaced the PR that year 1953 Peugeot PHL 50 1978 Helyett-Gitane (full Reynolds 531) 1979...

Still, the frame remains a PR with Reynolds 3 main tubes only when the sticker you used claims a full 531 frame like the PX/PY. I'm sorry and I don't mean to offend you but that simply is cheating even if you don't intend to. Just think of the guy who buys that frame from you and sell it...

Nice restoration ! But how come you've put a full 531 frame sticker when it's a PR which only has the front triangle made out of Reynolds steel, according to the catalogs ? Cheers Karl

Wow, you sure you wanna go offroad with a stem that "stiff" :mrgreen:

Sorry for the stupid question but how did you manage to fit those bars on that stem ? You didn't spread it open, did you ????

Nice bike Beagle ! My turn now with the last generation of steel Rockhoppers (Ritchey Nitanium tubes) in 1997 or 1998

I wouldn't trust that aluminium stem and the height you've set it up to (enormous leverage). I would be to frighten to get impalled on it in case it snaps under a strong pull/push ! Besides I guess it's as stiff as marshmallow. Nice bike nevertheless :wink:

White Spirit is the only thing you need for degreasing. Best is bathing your parts in a box and of course scrub with the mandatory old toothbrush. Open air and plastic gloves are too. After use put the WS back in a bottle that you'll leave for a while on a shelf so the grime falls at the...