Recent content by robot.hebobo

A used bike selling for half of new retail is actually holding value pretty well. I don’t think depreciation of modern Brodies is any better or worse than other comparable bikes

How does a headtube crack like that in the first place? Headset jammed in too tight? Tubing too thin or wrong alloy for the job?

As others have said, Brodie was until 1994 an exclusively high end, hand built bike by one of the legendary innovators and craftspeople of the early days of mountain biking, Paul Brodie. Unfortunately the boutique steel hardtail market was shrinking by 1994, and Brodie entered an agreement to...

Ha, funny. Where did you buy your Stumpjumper? I ended up getting mine from The Bike Cellar on West 4th (Vancouver), after spending innumerable hours at pretty much any local bike shop I could get to comparing bikes. The KHS was at Breakaway Bikes in Ambleside (W.Van). In retrospect I'm amazed...

That's not good! Odd though, I think I was pretty hard on these rims too - we used to go riding rain or shine, and in BC in the winter that was usually rain. I felt like I'd go though a set of Aztec brake pads in about 3 wet rides, but the rims did fine.

Ah, those old suspension forks were pretty primitive. Surprised about the OE parts, for me that was one of the selling points of the Specialized, their "OE" parts were also sold as and quite popular on the aftermarket as they were generally very good. A bit like Ritchey. I still have the 1993...

What was the regret?

100% sure it's magnetic. Just measured the coil via the computer mount contacts, it's 365 ohms

> What hardware are you using to keep the noodle from passing through? Just the soft aluminum nubbin at the end of the noodle. I pulled it off, put it in a drill and filed/sanded it down to be narrow enough on the OD to fit (this hanger had an M6 threaded hole), then trimmed the noodle tube...

No, I haven't but I could. What would I be looking for?

Also detail shot of the custom brake hanger noodle I made, because I was quite pleased with how it turned out. The noodle started life in a bag of 10 for a dollar I got from AliExpress years ago, but with some cutting and sanding and polishing it looks pretty trick.

The crank crack is strange. It kind of looks like there was some carelessly finished machining where the arm meets the spider, creating a sharp angle and a stress riser: I'm only 165lbs/75kg and I'm not hucking this bike, and the crack doesn't extend to the center, so I'm taking a chance on...

For me it was a choice between dark red and dark blue... I'm not sure if I would have gone for the pink, I feel like by 1993 grunge was in and the late-80s neon color fad was over... Looking back now though I do like the neon pink and blue a lot.

One minor tragedy during the build… the rubber XT brake lever hoods were in near perfect condition until 2 days ago, when something I was using (I suspect maybe the Pledge polish I was using to shine up the parts) contacted some areas of them and turned those areas into basically sticky black...

Pretty pleased to have finished (almost..) my first actual vintage build. I've been interested in early 90's MTBs since pretty much when they were current, and have been lurking here for ages, but this is my first actual build. Story of the bike is a bit random, I never was particularly into...