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so i have mid 90's P7's coming out of my ears at the moment. specifaclly i have 4 of them! 2 are nickel P7's, 1 is a 94/95 that's built with m737 xt and looks pretty original and appropriate spec, the other is 96/97 with 9 speed xt and v brakes, both in very good condition.
i recently bought 2 more, one was nickel but not in salvageable nickel condition so i knew was gonna get painted, it came with an old manitou fork, so i went looking for a rigid F7 fork to match but nothing was out there so i bought a Pace 1" ahead rc31 that would do the job, now my intention was to build this up as a modern hipster style, but then came the second P7, again it's not in the best cosmetic condition but it did come with the matching fork.
so now i've decided that i should do some off the wall thinking because i have 2 original P7 bikes so my logic is i can do the disgusting thing of modifying these ones. now crucially the rc31 is slightly longer axle to crown than the original F7 fork. so on saturday i got out some spare wheels, this is the disgusting bit . . .
700x 35 wheels/tyres fit in the rear of the frame, but not in the F7 fork, but they do fit in the RC31 fork, also, so do 650b x47, so that got me thinking, the F7 fork that came with the most recently bought P7 can get painted to match the other one as it's already at the painter which can be built hipster style and the newer one i'm thinking strip all the unneeded cable mounts/canti bosses off and have disc mount added as the RC31 has disc mounts at which point i can decide how i want to build it, leaning towards a gravel style build
so how disgusting of an idea is this?
i recently bought 2 more, one was nickel but not in salvageable nickel condition so i knew was gonna get painted, it came with an old manitou fork, so i went looking for a rigid F7 fork to match but nothing was out there so i bought a Pace 1" ahead rc31 that would do the job, now my intention was to build this up as a modern hipster style, but then came the second P7, again it's not in the best cosmetic condition but it did come with the matching fork.
so now i've decided that i should do some off the wall thinking because i have 2 original P7 bikes so my logic is i can do the disgusting thing of modifying these ones. now crucially the rc31 is slightly longer axle to crown than the original F7 fork. so on saturday i got out some spare wheels, this is the disgusting bit . . .
700x 35 wheels/tyres fit in the rear of the frame, but not in the F7 fork, but they do fit in the RC31 fork, also, so do 650b x47, so that got me thinking, the F7 fork that came with the most recently bought P7 can get painted to match the other one as it's already at the painter which can be built hipster style and the newer one i'm thinking strip all the unneeded cable mounts/canti bosses off and have disc mount added as the RC31 has disc mounts at which point i can decide how i want to build it, leaning towards a gravel style build
so how disgusting of an idea is this?
