Prometheus
Senior Retro Guru
First thing to say is Hi to everyone here at this excellent website. I have to confess that I haven't ridden for a few years due to various reasons and consequently have put on a few pounds . So I thought that it was about time to get back in the saddle. Unfortunately I sold the bike that I built for myself and have regretted it ever since. Anyway I looked around locally and saw a nickel plated orange P7 on a popluar auction site . It was advertised as a restoration project which was perfect. I contacted the seller to go and view the bike and he needed the space and was happy to let me take it there and then. There was a single bidder so apologies if that was anyone on here. I wasn't familiar with the P7 so I googled for some info and this was how I found retrobike and all the fabulous P7's amongst other old school machines that have been restored to their former glory. So here I am the proud owner of my own project. It was pretty dirty as it had been laid up and uncared for for a few years. Forgot to take the before pics :roll: . I have given it a preliminary clean up without removing any components apart from rremoving the crud catcher and bottle cage. Here are some photo's .
Ideally I would like to return to rigid forks preferably the original orange ones. Does anyone out there have any for sale ???
Also went out the the shed and dug out my parts bin and found some old XTR M900 bits which I might put in to service .
The wheels are a Mavic 221's with a hope front hub and an unkown shimano rear hub. All it has on it are the words 'silent clutch' anyone have any clue what it might be?? Could do with a new saddle too if anyone has a NOS orange saddle knocking around that would be great
Anyway getting writers cramp so i'll stop going on. Keep you posted as things progress.
Cheers.
Dave.
Ideally I would like to return to rigid forks preferably the original orange ones. Does anyone out there have any for sale ???
Also went out the the shed and dug out my parts bin and found some old XTR M900 bits which I might put in to service .
The wheels are a Mavic 221's with a hope front hub and an unkown shimano rear hub. All it has on it are the words 'silent clutch' anyone have any clue what it might be?? Could do with a new saddle too if anyone has a NOS orange saddle knocking around that would be great
Anyway getting writers cramp so i'll stop going on. Keep you posted as things progress.
Cheers.
Dave.