Show us your Proflex........
- Thread starter stumpjumper1990
- Start date
Suprachrgd82
GT Fan
VerDi
Dirt Disciple
I see it´s in the wrong topic, it´s a 98 posted in the >97 topic, sorry! NewbieOne of my Proflex bikes
K2 Proflex 4500 from '98
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
I'd rather see it here. Proflex content trumps arbitrary year cutoff. That's a fantastic retrobike. Shimano display blocks are quite nice tooI see it´s in the wrong topic, it´s a 98 posted in the >97 topic, sorry! Newbie
lewisflex
Dirt Disciple
New around these parts. Here's my 1994 Proflex 854.
Because I'm new around here, I'm not sure if it merits a thread. Also, it's already built, so it wouldn't really be a build thread
Anyway, this is how it stood on Sunday afternoon after two entire weekends and lots of post-office evenings working on it. There's some minor changes coming in the next few days because I don't know when to stop.
Because I'm new around here, I'm not sure if it merits a thread. Also, it's already built, so it wouldn't really be a build thread
Anyway, this is how it stood on Sunday afternoon after two entire weekends and lots of post-office evenings working on it. There's some minor changes coming in the next few days because I don't know when to stop.
lewisflex
Dirt Disciple
I actually did this on my lunch break on Thursday, so like 12 hours after I wrote that.
I actually liked the Fire Mud Pros that were on it; it didn't look wrong at all IMO. But the reason I had those was because they are available in 1.8, which I wanted because they'd give a little less friction. Turned out that's not really good at all for reducing friction at all (they're mud tyres, duh), and if I'm going to have that sort of drag I might as well have it coming from an amber-wall Smoke & Dart. It also gained Girvin decals on the fork, and genuine Sugino threaded caps on the chainset.
That's it! I'm really done forever now! (this is not what is going to actually happen)
Purple gerbil
Retro Newbie
1994 pro-flex 954.
All the Deore stuff was a stop gap to get it rideable but I'm nearly ready to rebuild it after gathering parts into something a little bit different
All the Deore stuff was a stop gap to get it rideable but I'm nearly ready to rebuild it after gathering parts into something a little bit different
lewisflex
Dirt Disciple
Hooray, non-identical twins.
I notice yours has yellow elastomers. Are they original, or did you manage to get modern replacements in the correct colour? My replacements from Suspension Fork Parts work perfectly, but they're only available in that translucent brown (seen in the post above yours). I'd really like yellow ones because that's very much how a Proflex looks in my 1990s memory.Love your bike anyway. I love this era of full-suspension bikes generally, where nobody really knew what worked and the manufacturers were just like randomly changing up stuff (like the 954 rear triangle vs all the others).
