Cinelli Tie Died Craziness!

[pete_mcc]

Re: Wow!

My god so agonisingly young!

Nice T-Bone stem

very cool pic, Pete

Scary isn't it; don't look like that now, certainly haven't worn that smile for a decade.

Key upgrades were the T-bone stem and Ritchey megabites. Then the whole groupset went piece by piece for XTII, then XT (ooo, get me, 7 speed)

 

[hydorah]

Now there's an idea

XT eh?

I was gonna go 7 speed for sure, but use some '89 mountain LX shifters and levers

But XT could be cool...

I remember I got into MTBing around the time year 7 speeds appeared and if a bike only had 6 cogs at the back it was considered archaic and obsolete!

When I was young I don't think I'd even heard of Cinelli... I was so uncultured

Not everything changes

 

[pete_mcc]

Re: Now there's an idea

I remember I got into MTBing around the time year 7 speeds appeared and if a bike only had 6 cogs at the back it was considered archaic and obsolete!

hell yeah, I had to swap out the stem because if you weren't using a tigged T-bone you were yesterdays news.

The Exage Mountain stuff was, how shall I say, shite. It was heavy, plasticky and flexy. The real star of the show was the frame; Columbus Cromor OR, the same tube set being used on frames like the Salsa a la Carte and others. This was a bike that lived up to the MBUK ethos of 'buy a bike for the frame and upgrade the parts'.

My one lived through many iterations and finally had the U brake removed and standard canti bosses put on, then resprayed s-works burgundy and outfitted with a full compliment of purple bolts. It finally got stolen when I locked it to a shop security grill for an hour - the thieves stole the whole shop window..