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Nope, no mercy. Skim harder for sullying a decent brand name.

Good to see the progress. However, please for the love of the baby jesus, remove the dork disk, go to your nearest body of water, and skim it across to a watery grave.

The road Epic is the same, a lovely thing to ride.

I posted the catalogue page on page 1 of this thread.

That's correct, with the number being the width in mm I believe.

I bought one for $20 from the US and the postage to the UK was about the same. I'm going to be using it on my next build for a bit of fun.

What a brilliant restoration you've done. I sighed when I saw the stripped back frame little knowing you had all the gear to make it look better than the original. And what a bargain price too with all those XT bits. Are you going down the original spec route or at least more period parts where...

You did @Repacker , thanks again! Yep, it will get ridden but only gentle stuff to be honest, much like my Xizang. I've my GT Avalanche and a soon to begin other Specialized build that will be given the more thorough workouts.

Yep. I've had it since new and it was originally polished just like in the GT catalogue

Thanks. Standard 150mm stem. Any shorter and I'd feel like I was riding a city shopper!

1991 GT Xizang LE

New build just finished so why not. More pictures and background in the link: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1989-specialized-stumpjumper-epic.481088/ Trailwright's 1989 Specialized Stumpjumper Epic

Here it is then at long last, the finished article! I absolutely love it, and after 36 years of wanting one it's happened. Thanks to the accumulation of mainly NOS and grade A components it's not far fetched to state that the bike is almost what would have come away from a Specialized dealer...

It's taken much patient collecting for some parts so that I don't have to pay stupid money. The tyres are the only aspect where it's now not possible to find good condition Ground Controls for a sensible price. It's incredible really.

You could very well be right. I found a picture showing how the '91 year models on sorted this out for cantis. Looks like some steel or alloy mounts were affixed over the carbon tubes at the right level.

I'll bet your lovely Team Stumpy is lighter than the Epic too despite the Specialized marketing speil. I was a bit shocked when I lifted it off the stand. It's way heavier than my larger framed Epic road bikes, but then they use aluminium lugs and the carbon tubes must be thinner gauge.

I don't know the reason why the U-brake was used rather than the cantis, which was what the rest of the range swapped to in '89. In 1990, both the Epic and the now introduced Epic Ultimate (cro-mo version) still retained U-brakes. The only other model to use a U-brake in 1989 was the 15"...

I've made some more progress with me black beauty and am almost there. The rear wheel took a lot of degreasing and fiddling about with washers to get the spacing on the shortened axle just right, but I'm happy with the outcome and it's not required any re-dishing to be done. I also mentioned...

Most of these sharkfins now come to us 2nd+ hand, and so the original packaging has long since vanished. But as I have a NOS one that's about to go onto my current build I thought it was worth posting these simple instructions that appear on the back of the pack. It's not something I recall...