Baldyz1
Retro Guru
This was an interesting build. The Attitude frame in Flare red is extremely rare. In fact I have never seen one and it would be nice to know if anyone else has. The colour is made up of a yellow base coat and fluorescent red top coat and lacquer so it is brighter than Ferrari red. The colour was around from 1990 to 1992 I believe.
The red was crying out for black ancillaries and that as it turns out is a very difficult feat. Try finding early 90s black kit especially hubs. My patience paid off and eventually parts came one by one.
I thought this would be a keeper but my eyes were on yet another bike and with 8 in the stable including the modern ones I am afraid the Mrs was stamping her foot.
I started with this fabulous frame bought from Milan. It was a complete bike but fitted with all the wrong stuff. Most of the new fittings are NOS or heavily restored.
The pictures are good but don't do the bike full justice as the colour, like all Kleins, Zings in the sunlight. There must be a tiny bit of fade on the top tube evidenced by the ghosting of a Cook Bros Racing outline but it is very faint indeed and actually pretty cool as it looks part of the build.
Equipment:
Brake Levers: Shimano MT 60 Black case/ silver lever
Gear levers: XT 7 Speed Thumb Shifters
Cantis: Shimano BR MT60 in Black
Wheels: HB MT60 laced to Sun Chinook rims.
Front mech: M735
Rear Mech: M735
Chain: HG 7 Speed
Rear Cassette: HG 7 Speed
Cables: all Shimano and new including all new liners
Tyres: Panaracer Smoke and Dart
Seat Post: XT 27.2 showing a lot of polish type rub maybe from a bag.
Saddle: Flite Titanium, recovered at some stage, so average.
Skewers: Grafton rear and Shimano generic front. Grafton seat stay.
Chainset: M730 hand polished (10 hours work and sore hands)
Pedals: Not supplied
Grips: Ritchey, new.
Forks: Manitou 4 with correct Klein Steerer, elastomers are hardened so need replacing.
A few tiny marks here and there as shown in the pictures but generally great condition. There is no chain suck to speak of.
I have made a few little extra touches to improve her including a handsome reducer on the brake levers as the Shimano took much thicker 2mm cables and 8mm outers.
All bearings serviced and a new axle to fit the M730 crankset.
Now the price: £689.90 + delivery. I am in Surrey.
There is one problem; a small crack in the seat collar, compression area (please study the picture carefully) only a few mm. I have to assume it is a crack and not just in the paintwork. This has been evident for up to 15 years without getting any worse. This is very common on this model as the compression area is very long and creates a stress point here. Running the correct length seat post stops any further stress. This has the correct length seat post now.
Bear in mind that this is repairable if it ever should worsen. People have also cut the rather long seat clamp area down and fitted a simple collar as per late Klein MC2s.
Size is medium.
Here is the Album:
http://s1181.photobucket.com/albums/x42 ... e%20Flare/
The red was crying out for black ancillaries and that as it turns out is a very difficult feat. Try finding early 90s black kit especially hubs. My patience paid off and eventually parts came one by one.
I thought this would be a keeper but my eyes were on yet another bike and with 8 in the stable including the modern ones I am afraid the Mrs was stamping her foot.
I started with this fabulous frame bought from Milan. It was a complete bike but fitted with all the wrong stuff. Most of the new fittings are NOS or heavily restored.
The pictures are good but don't do the bike full justice as the colour, like all Kleins, Zings in the sunlight. There must be a tiny bit of fade on the top tube evidenced by the ghosting of a Cook Bros Racing outline but it is very faint indeed and actually pretty cool as it looks part of the build.
Equipment:
Brake Levers: Shimano MT 60 Black case/ silver lever
Gear levers: XT 7 Speed Thumb Shifters
Cantis: Shimano BR MT60 in Black
Wheels: HB MT60 laced to Sun Chinook rims.
Front mech: M735
Rear Mech: M735
Chain: HG 7 Speed
Rear Cassette: HG 7 Speed
Cables: all Shimano and new including all new liners
Tyres: Panaracer Smoke and Dart
Seat Post: XT 27.2 showing a lot of polish type rub maybe from a bag.
Saddle: Flite Titanium, recovered at some stage, so average.
Skewers: Grafton rear and Shimano generic front. Grafton seat stay.
Chainset: M730 hand polished (10 hours work and sore hands)
Pedals: Not supplied
Grips: Ritchey, new.
Forks: Manitou 4 with correct Klein Steerer, elastomers are hardened so need replacing.
A few tiny marks here and there as shown in the pictures but generally great condition. There is no chain suck to speak of.
I have made a few little extra touches to improve her including a handsome reducer on the brake levers as the Shimano took much thicker 2mm cables and 8mm outers.
All bearings serviced and a new axle to fit the M730 crankset.
Now the price: £689.90 + delivery. I am in Surrey.
There is one problem; a small crack in the seat collar, compression area (please study the picture carefully) only a few mm. I have to assume it is a crack and not just in the paintwork. This has been evident for up to 15 years without getting any worse. This is very common on this model as the compression area is very long and creates a stress point here. Running the correct length seat post stops any further stress. This has the correct length seat post now.
Bear in mind that this is repairable if it ever should worsen. People have also cut the rather long seat clamp area down and fitted a simple collar as per late Klein MC2s.
Size is medium.
Here is the Album:
http://s1181.photobucket.com/albums/x42 ... e%20Flare/
