dirttorpedo
Senior Retro Guru
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
I'm building a Ridgeback 603 for some reason
Muirwoods94
Dirt Disciple
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.
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
Dirt Disciple
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 a friend 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.
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lewisflex
Dirt Disciple
FINALLY the last of the parts (which I ordered two weeks ago) have arrived. That meant I could hastily throw the controls together tonight.
Here we have:
* Club Roost Go Fast bars, slightly tatty (I might get these vapour blasted at some point), with NOS Club Roost brace
* Azonic Shorty stem (late 90s I think, but either way definitely in the genre of "mad CNC stuff" we all loved back then) plus 1 1/8" -> 1" shim. Dunno, this might actually make the bike too short for me, but if that happens it'll look great for the entire day I have it on there. ;D
* The only reasonably-priced pair of NOS Onza Porcipaws on the planet. Don't be mad at me.
* XT thumbshifters. I loved these back in the day. I even had a pair, back when they sold for £3, but I think I broke mine because that bike ended up with RapidFire shifters later in life. This bike is staying 7 speed so this is the obvious choice. (A thing I knew back then but then forgot until today: XT thumbshifters are slightly heavier-damped in the opposite direction to the spring tension in the mech. That means upshifts feel similar to downshifts.)
* Avid Speed Dial 5s. These are actually early 2000s, but meh, they're similar enough to the earlier ones that I'll take it, and I already had them kicking around. They were on my Proflex before I swapped them for a pair of 90s ones I found on here from @shepp.
And the fork has returned! But I've got the arch to replace on that and I ran out of time this evening.
Here we have:
* Club Roost Go Fast bars, slightly tatty (I might get these vapour blasted at some point), with NOS Club Roost brace
* Azonic Shorty stem (late 90s I think, but either way definitely in the genre of "mad CNC stuff" we all loved back then) plus 1 1/8" -> 1" shim. Dunno, this might actually make the bike too short for me, but if that happens it'll look great for the entire day I have it on there. ;D
* The only reasonably-priced pair of NOS Onza Porcipaws on the planet. Don't be mad at me.
* XT thumbshifters. I loved these back in the day. I even had a pair, back when they sold for £3, but I think I broke mine because that bike ended up with RapidFire shifters later in life. This bike is staying 7 speed so this is the obvious choice. (A thing I knew back then but then forgot until today: XT thumbshifters are slightly heavier-damped in the opposite direction to the spring tension in the mech. That means upshifts feel similar to downshifts.)
* Avid Speed Dial 5s. These are actually early 2000s, but meh, they're similar enough to the earlier ones that I'll take it, and I already had them kicking around. They were on my Proflex before I swapped them for a pair of 90s ones I found on here from @shepp.
And the fork has returned! But I've got the arch to replace on that and I ran out of time this evening.
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sam_white
Diamond Back Fan
I think those Speed Dial 5 brake levers are designed for V-Brakes - They will probably work with cantilevers but if braking isn't as good as you hoped for, maybe change them. I started a discussion here about the different Avid levers:
And if you're a Fred Salmon fan, catalogue is here https://www.retrobike.co.uk/archive/fred-salmon-racing-catalogue.1390/
And if you're a Fred Salmon fan, catalogue is here https://www.retrobike.co.uk/archive/fred-salmon-racing-catalogue.1390/
lewisflex
Dirt Disciple
Thanks for the heads up. Yep, I'm staying with canties (just because I like the cable routing on the rear and don't want those points to be unused). I figured the adjustable pull would get me out of trouble here but you might have just given me an excuse to replace these with something from the 90s. ;D That would have been hard to justify to myself otherwise given that I already had these close-enough levers kicking around.
[Edit: yep, some Avid Speed Dial 2.0 non-Ls are on the way. Oh well, that money wasn't going to spend itself.]
This is cool! Thanks for the throwback! I re-remembered that they did some of these bits when I saw this (and re-remembered the "Racing Tackle" tagline too) but I didn't know they did whole frames.
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lewisflex
Dirt Disciple
So I have forks. They are early Rock Shox Judy SLs.
I actually had Rock Shox Judy SLs two weeks ago. They arrived in the post, I took them out of the box and was like "yep they're forks" then immediately packed them up again to be serviced by Pace. That was probably for the best, because I'm told that there was a coil spring where there should be an elastomer, and that this coil spring wasn't even the right part and could have caused internal damage. The service cost me a hundred quid, which seems like a very fair price to keep these going for probably another decade or more.
Mine came with the V-brake type arch. It's in great condition (anyone on here want it?), but I intended to run cantilever brakes on this. There's reasons for it, partly stated in the post above. But Judy cantilever arches are hard to come by so I was forced (forced!) to buy the beautiful shiny SRP arch you see above.
I decided to keep the original headset.
It's an actual Dia-Compe Aheadset! Taking it apart showed that it was in PERFECT condition other than old, slightly-hard grease. If this was not a Dia-Compe or not in basically-unused condition I'd have an excuse to change it, but even I can't find one.
So I fitted the forks this evening. That's most of the front end done other than fitting the brakes, and I couldn't do that because the bolts I have for the brakes I are about 5mm too long for the posts in these forks.
I actually had Rock Shox Judy SLs two weeks ago. They arrived in the post, I took them out of the box and was like "yep they're forks" then immediately packed them up again to be serviced by Pace. That was probably for the best, because I'm told that there was a coil spring where there should be an elastomer, and that this coil spring wasn't even the right part and could have caused internal damage. The service cost me a hundred quid, which seems like a very fair price to keep these going for probably another decade or more.
Mine came with the V-brake type arch. It's in great condition (anyone on here want it?), but I intended to run cantilever brakes on this. There's reasons for it, partly stated in the post above. But Judy cantilever arches are hard to come by so I was forced (forced!) to buy the beautiful shiny SRP arch you see above.
I decided to keep the original headset.
It's an actual Dia-Compe Aheadset! Taking it apart showed that it was in PERFECT condition other than old, slightly-hard grease. If this was not a Dia-Compe or not in basically-unused condition I'd have an excuse to change it, but even I can't find one.
So I fitted the forks this evening. That's most of the front end done other than fitting the brakes, and I couldn't do that because the bolts I have for the brakes I are about 5mm too long for the posts in these forks.
