Recent content by tock13

Re: I had a Chris king 1 1/4 headset on an old bike, I got a new bike built with an actiontec fork which takes 1 1/4 headset so took the Chris king off the old bike. I put a YST on the old bike and could not tell at all that it didn't have the Chris king on it anymore. Heck my Chris king was...

Re: Re: LOL! Too funny. It is kind of like the wild west around here with everyone wearing bandanas. Outlaws!

Re: I am not really sure what size it is, I found some Klein catalogs here and from what I can tell it is from the first year of production for this model, 1992. I think I can figure out size by their geometry chart. I will fiddle around and clean it up today. I have never tried out XTR...

Hello, So here in Washington State we started to open up businesses and are able to get out and about...with face masks of course. I am a thrift store junkie and scour the stores for cool 70's stereo stuff and ever elusive Mountain Goat Whiskey Town Racer that I KNOW I will stumble on some...

I am a newbie on this forum but not a newbie to mountain bikes. I was present here in the U.S.A. on the west coast during the late 70s through the 90's when mountain biking was born. I was in the second half of my 20s in the late 80s and early 90s and heavily into mountain bikes. That era in my...

In the last year I have had 2 of them. Surly Ice Cream Truck and a Surly Wednesday. I ordered the Wednesday new from a shop, rode it about 700 yards total around the yard thinking I would learn to like it...nope. Sold em both for the price I bought them for so all is well. Could not get used to...

Thank you all for your time and opinions I truly appreciate it. Its a hard decision for sure, much easier if it was someone else's bike I was watching get built or something I could easily undo! The video above is the one I saw and if you didn't know anything about the frame it looks like a...

Hello, First post one the forum though I have been lurking a long while. I apologize for the long post! I have seen a few posts here where the OP was going to add or remove something from a vintage MTB frame and there was definitely a lot of mixed opinions on the subject. I have searched and...