This is my first post of a bike, so bear with me.
Rocky Mountain steel frames have a stellar reputation and it is well deserved. I have owned this bike since new and have bought and sold about five other MTBs, each time tossing this frame in a box thinking that I might sell it, but never having the heart to do so.
After spending a few years learning to ride offroad in Vancouver's North Shore using Bridgestones, I wised up and bought an MTB that was DESIGNED for that kind of riding. It was an instant revelation - the control and stability, the handling was slower, thus allowing for mistakes to be corrected without flying over my handlebars, the sloped top tube.
Having gotten fully addicted to bikes, I now pine for a Sycip or a Dekerf or an Indy Fab or a Moots, but the truth is that I would ask them to replicate the geometry of this bike, so i figured I might as well save the dough and be nostalgic, something that i am generally not. I mostly ride road bikes now, so the cost really wasn't justified anyways, since I would rather spend thousands on a new road frame (call me crazy).
While ogling a used Dekerf, I called Chris D to ask about some details of the frame. I told him that I had this old Rocky Vertex that he possibly built when he worked at Rocky Mountain and he said that if I love the ride of my frame but really just want ot use disc brakes, then he could weld a disc mount onto it. I agreed and he laid down the most perfect disc mount that I have ever seen, complete with a handmade gusset integrated into the seat stay.
Here is the result - timeless, yet dated perfection. Oh, and since I was't going ot buy that Sycip after all, I found a great deal on Phil Wood disc hubs and built them up with Velocity FR rims. They are heavy, but spinning things of beauty.
Parts have obviously been updated. My search for XTR m-900 has resulted in the derailleurs, BB, and cranks, Avid BB7s, Salsa Stem, Bonty Flattracker bar, TIME pedals (I prefer TIME DH pedals - if you wanna trade, let me know as these are practically new!), Thomson post and my trusty old Avocet ti saddle. Yum. The frame needs repainting as it is quite scratched up, has some chainsuck and many many spraycan retouches, including the disc mount.
Rocky Mountain steel frames have a stellar reputation and it is well deserved. I have owned this bike since new and have bought and sold about five other MTBs, each time tossing this frame in a box thinking that I might sell it, but never having the heart to do so.
After spending a few years learning to ride offroad in Vancouver's North Shore using Bridgestones, I wised up and bought an MTB that was DESIGNED for that kind of riding. It was an instant revelation - the control and stability, the handling was slower, thus allowing for mistakes to be corrected without flying over my handlebars, the sloped top tube.
Having gotten fully addicted to bikes, I now pine for a Sycip or a Dekerf or an Indy Fab or a Moots, but the truth is that I would ask them to replicate the geometry of this bike, so i figured I might as well save the dough and be nostalgic, something that i am generally not. I mostly ride road bikes now, so the cost really wasn't justified anyways, since I would rather spend thousands on a new road frame (call me crazy).
While ogling a used Dekerf, I called Chris D to ask about some details of the frame. I told him that I had this old Rocky Vertex that he possibly built when he worked at Rocky Mountain and he said that if I love the ride of my frame but really just want ot use disc brakes, then he could weld a disc mount onto it. I agreed and he laid down the most perfect disc mount that I have ever seen, complete with a handmade gusset integrated into the seat stay.
Here is the result - timeless, yet dated perfection. Oh, and since I was't going ot buy that Sycip after all, I found a great deal on Phil Wood disc hubs and built them up with Velocity FR rims. They are heavy, but spinning things of beauty.
Parts have obviously been updated. My search for XTR m-900 has resulted in the derailleurs, BB, and cranks, Avid BB7s, Salsa Stem, Bonty Flattracker bar, TIME pedals (I prefer TIME DH pedals - if you wanna trade, let me know as these are practically new!), Thomson post and my trusty old Avocet ti saddle. Yum. The frame needs repainting as it is quite scratched up, has some chainsuck and many many spraycan retouches, including the disc mount.
