I'm building a Ridgeback 603 for some reason

[dirttorpedo]

Its always cool when someone finds a bike that is meaningful to them and plays around with it. Im looking forward to seeing what you do with the pedals

 

[Muirwoods94]

Awesome. I did almost the same thing. Found a replica of my childhood Marin in such good original shape I can't bring myself to upgrade it. So it's stuck in time warp spec which means I don't really want to ride it.

My solution came when I saw another (higher spec) Marin from the same year for sale locally. As I have no personal attachment to that one, it's going to get a proper update and get ridden. And I can keep the other one secret and keep it safe.

TLDR : the solution to all your problems is to buy more bikes.

 

[lewisflex]

Im looking forward to seeing what you do with the pedals

Funny you should say that. I just got indoors after spending four hours in the workshop, doing things to pedals.

Here are some sad-looking DMR V12s. I got them for £22 on eBay.



I loved this style of pedal back then, and I still do. And I also love a project within a project, so I bought some ugly ones in order to spend far too much time making them nice.

Stripping them down showed they were perfect internally; they just needed a clean-up and a re-grease. As you can see, on the outside they needed a lot of love, and by love I mean mild abrasives.



I could have just put any old pins in here and they would look great, because these pedals always do. But this one is for teenage me, and that means multicoloured anodised studs because it's the mid 1990s.



I'm giving most of the credit to my friend Amy here; I showed her a photo of my other DMRs and said "what stud layout would you do if you had 40 studs in 5 different colours" and she came back with this. I think it looks fantastic, and way better than anything I could think of.