since this project started from a bag, I thought it was appropriate to end it with another one 😉
I found this Stay Pak and I bought it out of curiosity (never seen one - maybe now I know why)
Here it is, gracefully hanging on the freshly polished frame:
I’m still not sure I’ll keep this...
Lovely find! It’s definitely a ‘93 Stumpjumper, you can see it on the catalog on page 12. I had a Burgundy HardRock and I’m pretty sure it’s the same colour since it changes a lot depending on the light.
It originally had a Direct Drive Cr-Mo fork, shared with the Stumpjumper M2 and all the...
Thanks for the kind words.
I initially wanted to convert it to solid forks but maybe the Struts are more suitable to the race bike build I’m going for. (I’m DM you soon)
Regarding shims, I recently did the same thing since the other option was fabricating it myself.
Today a strange thing happened; strange and beautiful. But I would like to start from the beginning...
It was the early 90s, I was 13 at most and I spent the best part of my time listening to the Led Zeppelin and Queen cassettes that my cousin recorded for me. The rest of the time I was...