Hi everyone
My second question for today,
I've finally dug out my trusty Diamond Back ascent out of the garage.
If my fading memory serves me correct, I think I purchased her in the early to mid 90's, bright orange if that helps.(I'd guess not)
Over the next few weeks/months/years, I'm going to have a go at rebuilding her and hopefully after a little fettle I'll be able to ride her once again, however , I have a slight problem that over the dark distant years that have now passed her by, the majority of the original parts have been plundered and donated to friends (Tut!! :roll: ) and as its been stuffed in the rafters for at least 15 years , I suppose I may as well give up hope that the parts will come home and be reunited with one with the frame, so this leads me to the question ,
Do I buy new old parts or should I replace with new ones , as I cannot for the life of me find any 7 speed parts, let alone tan walled specialized tyres, I've had a look on a bike site called wiggle and evans, and I even went into the guy's at halford's, but they looked at me as if I was speaking klingon or talking in Pascal or something, when I told them that the frame was bought in the 90's one of them walked off and started tidying the shelves , whilst the other pretended to be on the phone.
So much for customer support eh!!! whats your suggestions or is there a general rule of rebuilding (cough) classic mountain bikes up.
Steve
My second question for today,
I've finally dug out my trusty Diamond Back ascent out of the garage.
If my fading memory serves me correct, I think I purchased her in the early to mid 90's, bright orange if that helps.(I'd guess not)
Over the next few weeks/months/years, I'm going to have a go at rebuilding her and hopefully after a little fettle I'll be able to ride her once again, however , I have a slight problem that over the dark distant years that have now passed her by, the majority of the original parts have been plundered and donated to friends (Tut!! :roll: ) and as its been stuffed in the rafters for at least 15 years , I suppose I may as well give up hope that the parts will come home and be reunited with one with the frame, so this leads me to the question ,
Do I buy new old parts or should I replace with new ones , as I cannot for the life of me find any 7 speed parts, let alone tan walled specialized tyres, I've had a look on a bike site called wiggle and evans, and I even went into the guy's at halford's, but they looked at me as if I was speaking klingon or talking in Pascal or something, when I told them that the frame was bought in the 90's one of them walked off and started tidying the shelves , whilst the other pretended to be on the phone.
So much for customer support eh!!! whats your suggestions or is there a general rule of rebuilding (cough) classic mountain bikes up.
Steve
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