Recent content by shogun

What a gorgeous bike, well deserved win.

STOP READING. Buy a bike and go ride it. None of it matters.

Truth is you have no use for concepts like 'sizing up' or 'sizing down' for 'hill riding' until you have a baseline, e.g. a bike you've spent a fair bit of time on and you've experienced quite a bit of different terrain. Nobody here can really tell you what will fit you except in very broad...

Find a local bike coop, bike kitchen, bike charity etc and use their tools. Maybe they'll help with some experience, too. Here's one in Brum, and I found that from Tasmania. https://www.facebook.com/biclasb12/

Dearest Mr Overthinker, Buy a bike local to you, any bike, ride it a bit and see what you need to change. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

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.