Recent content by shogun

Neato! Looks like it would be a fun bike to ride. Great photos too.

Malvern Star is an Aussie brand with a very long history. The '83 Bushranger was their second attempt at a mountain bike, after private labelling a low end Araya earlier in the year. This was one of the earliest attempts at a production mountain bike by a mainstream company in Australia. The...

I acquired this late '84 MF-MB26A Explorer Deluxe last year. Aside from replacing the rotted tyres and saddle, it is in original condition down to the National tubes, DID chain and dork disk. Somebody had abandoned it at the Blue Derby trail centre (!) here in Tasmania. You know, where they hold...

Well, if you feel up to it pop some pics up in my Prairie Breaker thread, at least it might bring some attention to them again, haha. I liked it so much I bought a spare matching frameset :D Looking at it with the yellow stem, I think yellow lowers would be quite fetching. But you're the one...

Great job conserving the history in it. Truly lovely little bike. Also glad that Gee has found the cable ends and ferrules, grease and alu prep since the '92 ARC video 😛

It's not against forum etiquette but it seems like a lot of people who are enthusiastic about that type of build are also crestfallen when they don't get the gushing positive praise they seek for their stunning and brave vision.

Stunning end result! Those early FROs have such individual personalities, I feel like every one I see brought back has its own unique attributes.

What? Surely they were. 26" BMXs didn't skip the UK. What about an Akisu biplane, lugged Tange or something as fitted to many early-mid 80s UK available bikes, then you get canti mounts too? Build is shaping up really well.

That is exactly so. Basically a Medium 1998 STS-DH.

Looking fab! I'm not sold on the SRP crank bolts either. Me, I'd be looking for Crank-O-Matics or similar pale gold one key release bolts/caps.

Yeah, because Boxxer is something like +10 with an offset, they're not IS, so on a Boxxer with spacers to take up the lateral difference your XC4 probably fits a Boxxer more or less like an IS brake fits any other fork. Problem is on the rear its IS, so you need to somehow cover that missing 10mm.

What brake is it? Looks like XC4? When mounted direct to IS mounts they were (somewhat unusually) 150mm rotor front, 130mm rear. You'd be better off to seek a DH4, Enduro 4 or early Mono 4. They're effectively a -10 on whatever adaptor you use.

Excellent project! Keep the paint, find rough parts to match, that's my philosophy.

Looking jolly excellent so far, I really like where it's going. I'm quite keen to do a B2 or B3 myself!

Awesome build! I'm putting together a '49 cantilever Schwinn bomber, when I'm a bit closer I'll post it up.