Corratec FreeRide Expert/Deore ~2000 project, Help needed!

[keny]

So I happen to get a MTB for free, after some reserch it turns out its a 2000 or 2001 Corratec FreeRide Expert or Deore. Could only find the spec of 201 modells on the web, and the Expert has same color as I found below the later spray can jobb.
http://bikedaten.de/bikes/corratec/2001 ... plettbike/
The thing that are diffrent is the crank color and that the shifters/triggers are Deore not Sram as in the spec in the link.
some pics.





Asaide casette and crank the driveline is Shimano Deore 510

Seem someone had lost the V-brake parts for the rear and been creative, fortunally still bosses there. Rims seem OK, and it still has the OEM front tire! Now it will be stripped completly, frame and fork painted, witch color I still dont know, and put back. I need a seatpoast and saddle for it, was missing. A thing I find strange is the seatpoast can only bee insert about 11cm?


So toughs of color, metallic blue as it was or red? And is it totally wrong to ditch the OEM frok in favor of a OnOne rigid, as I have on in the parts bin, but its a disc only fork. I have a wheel that would fit, as a mechanical calipper in the parts bin as well. Toughs are welcome.

 

[kanerdog1x1]

Re: Corratec FreeRide Expert/Deore project

Talk to me about the gamma!

 

[keny]

Re: Corratec FreeRide Expert/Deore project

Talk to me about the gamma!

A bit offtopic it becomes, but ok.

It`s a 1984 RG250W, orginal aside removen airfilterbox (that I still have) and a Wilbers rear shock. In the pic still not stock mirrors) Not a minter but in nice condission. It was almost totaled in 2012 as I got hit by a deer, but fortunally only a side panel was cracked ( a small bit misses also) on the bike, I had a blue knee for more than a mounth...

Just got it pass a classic inspection as its 31 years old, and that means insurens cost of less than 30€ a year, but a striction of only allowed to ride it 30 days a year, but thats not a problem, its a bike you go out whit only now and then enjoying on a sunny day.

The Corratec is now completly striped down. Front derauller was damaged, wheels are now tuned and nice. Waiting to be repainted as I get the old paint stripped. Still open for what fork It will get, but a shorter stem and a riser bar I have decided for.

I also got a nother MTB project, a 1999 Focus Black Hills.

 

[kenaltobelli]

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loveing the gamma ;now that does take you back
owned 2 lc s and nearly bought an x7 good days

 

[keny]

Re: Corratec FreeRide Expert/Deore project

OK, back to the limited seatpost space, here a few better pics


I still find it weard its limited/blockad how long the seatpost can go in. ~11cm in is some sort of spacer, then it goes ~4cm more untill its totl block, like a alu part welded in the frame, and its same color like the frame orginal was. Any Corratec FreeRide owners on the bord?