Category X-Orange Formula.

[27motorhead]

OMG Carl, you're such a tease with the drip feeding of details. LOVE the early Scott Pederson brakes, especially the U brake. Proper utilitarian/functional design aesthetic that makes them beautiful in their own right and in black they are super yummy.

Interesting the drill holes on the arms have chamfered edges. Someone has done that pretty neatly.

 

[sinnerman]

OMG Carl, you're such a tease with the drip feeding of details. LOVE the early Scott Pederson brakes, especially the U brake. Proper utilitarian/functional design aesthetic that makes them beautiful in their own right and in black they are super yummy.

Interesting the drill holes on the arms have chamfered edges. Someone has done that pretty neatly.

Thank you, i like the way the edges have been chamfered too, but its had a long life to be honest.

 

[sinnerman]

Brake Levers-XC9000 brake levers combined with gear lever, Accushift
Gear Levers-XC9000 brake levers combined with gear lever, Accushift
Grips-Period Foam-Black O/E Fitment
Cables- 2MM.
Bar-Orange (Tange) Original equipment.
Stem- Orange (Tange) with under carriage cable hanger, Original Equipment.

 

[sinnerman]

Rear Mech-Suntour Sprint 9000 LE
Chain-Regina Extra Corsa-Silver.
Block/Freewheel-Suntour Winner straight through, 13-19

 

[sinnerman]

Back in the day, Shimano was about to revolutionise the market, raising the game from 18 speed indexing to 21speed Hyperglyde.
So with this build being Suntour and Suntours 7speed mountain bike components not yet ready, this seemed like the direction too take.

I did buy Suntour Sprint 9000 mech in silver, as it didnt appear anywhere in Black, once I had bought it, I was told that Suntour did release a Graphite Black ltd Edition Rear mech specifically for one manufacturer to use on an Anniversary model they were bringing to market.
O/E equipment only. ( I think it was Trek But my memory is hazy ).

Anyway with some serious digging and time, I managed to find one, so I was able to use Suntour and indexed 7speed gearing by using the Suntour Winner freewheel and the accushift gear levers, and to my surprise it really works well. Im confident if it wasnt a straight through block it would be very clunky compared to the Overburys XT Hyperglyde, but because of the small increments in sprocket size, its surprisingly on par.

 

[Braggard]

As always Carl, your attention to detail and doing right by the bike is always a worthy read and puts a smile on many a reader of your build threads. Well done Chap.