New hack/pub parts bin special- caution - riser content...

[marky2484]

1996 Diamond Back WCF 6.0.

Came with some pre knackered Manitous - off they came. Generic rigid fork -on. Then just what I had lying around.

Not all that, but rides nice.

Bargainous shifters off e-bay, dead ringers for Sachs wavy, badged as SRAM Neos.

Wheels came with the bike -strong but heeeeaaavy.........

 

[coomber]

Great for a parts bin build mate.

 

[superstu]

Those forks look Luke they came as stock! Really good effort.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

I like it - but I can already hear the howls of derision for fitting V's to a bike with a Canti hangar...

Oh dear, now I'll also have offended the great and the good( :roll: ) who'll say I'm praising mediocrity and encouraging the 'dumbing down' of the forum...

 

[eclipse]

i like it

 

[marky2484]

Would it help if I cut the canti hanger off

Call me old fashioned, but I like brakes which actually STOP me...

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Have to admit, as a die-hard V-brake fan, that I now have canti's on three of my bikes in deference to aesthetic expectations of pre-'97 bikes...

I do, however, use these bell-crank type 'enhancers' on the front...

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/tektro-tektr ... prod14032/

...which solves the problem of finding a hanger I like, and gives me a canti' that outbrakes my V's...