Once A Hero
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Haven’t had cause to start a new build thread for a while as I’ve been winding down my retro bike activities (pretty much completed my collection), but I’ve had an eye open for one of these for many a year, just waiting for the right one to come along.
Whilst this isn’t an expensive bike/frameset, they all seem to be either too big, too much money, or the later model finished with world team colours at the front end - or all of those things.
But finally a small sized, full yellow MCM Team came up for sale on eBay, and I watched and waited as the price gradually became more affordable - bearing in mind it wasn’t local, and didn’t include postage.
As is also often the case, the build specs of the MCM Teams out there tend to be pretty rubbish - which is odd given it’s effectively a top of the line frameset. Perhaps only being offered as frame left the build being open to absolutely any interpretation.
So here’s what I picked up at the weekend:
Great seller to deal with and a fair deal done - but I was really only interested in the frame.
Stage one of the build has commenced, which has included a full strip down, degrease and polish. It’s come up nicely
Once fully stripped down I was curious as to what the frame weighed, and was pleased that it came in a smidge over 1.6kg.
I’ve started gathering parts - many with the help of @Tsundere but I’ve still got a few key pieces to find/figure out.
I’m going for a more 1995 MCM Team build rather than the later years, so this is going to be more M900 XTR, rather than M950. Only wish I’d held on to a set of M910 hubbed wheels over the years…
Whilst this isn’t an expensive bike/frameset, they all seem to be either too big, too much money, or the later model finished with world team colours at the front end - or all of those things.
But finally a small sized, full yellow MCM Team came up for sale on eBay, and I watched and waited as the price gradually became more affordable - bearing in mind it wasn’t local, and didn’t include postage.
As is also often the case, the build specs of the MCM Teams out there tend to be pretty rubbish - which is odd given it’s effectively a top of the line frameset. Perhaps only being offered as frame left the build being open to absolutely any interpretation.
So here’s what I picked up at the weekend:
Great seller to deal with and a fair deal done - but I was really only interested in the frame.
Stage one of the build has commenced, which has included a full strip down, degrease and polish. It’s come up nicely
Once fully stripped down I was curious as to what the frame weighed, and was pleased that it came in a smidge over 1.6kg.
I’ve started gathering parts - many with the help of @Tsundere but I’ve still got a few key pieces to find/figure out.
I’m going for a more 1995 MCM Team build rather than the later years, so this is going to be more M900 XTR, rather than M950. Only wish I’d held on to a set of M910 hubbed wheels over the years…
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