I had the day to find and build a bike... 1994 kona explosif

[explosifpete]

The day before our holiday to Lithuania to see my wife's family she wisely suggested I should just leave a bike there rather than carting a bike back and forward each time we go, great idea, shame it came the day before we were due to leave :shock:
Cue an evening of disappointment on ebay and then off to a secondhand bike shop the next day.
I brought this 94 Explosif frame which came with a pace rc35 fork, headset, two chainsets, stem, shifters, bars, and brakes all for £45 and a couple favors.
Then spent the day with my boy so didn't get to start the build until 5 o'clock, all was going way until i realized one of the fork ends had came loose so another trip out to get the rigid fork.
A raid of the parts bin and it was complete, couple of bodges including a beer can seatpost shim but it works and after a couple hundred off road miles in the forests of Lithuania (and a couple of KOMs )
I can confirm that its a bit small, bikes have got better but its still lots of fun to ride

 

[longun]

wow, thats awesome! im usually still thinking of packing and finding my passport. never mind finding, buying, building and packing the bike! well done dude, hope you had tons of fun

 

[explosifpete]

The very last minute bit was to wrap it in some trampoline netting to get it on the plane as it has to be wrapped up, came though unharmed

 

[chefmiguel]

Hug that wife of yours!

 

[dayofsuffering]

That looks like a fun bike to ride in those awesome surroundings!

Nice beer can in the second photo... did you have to make a second shim in the middle of the ride? :mrgreen:

 

[sparkiegaz]

Lovely place to ride bike turned out ok also,,, there any bears living in them woods ?????

 

[explosifpete]

That is the beer can that I made the can from
No bears anymore but still some wolves......I only saw a pack of domestic dogs