Tell me about the Mavic MTB groupset..

[jez-4-bikes-max]

Found another great barn/attic find.

This comes with its original full Mavic groupset and I know NOTHING about these. I've had the wishbone shifters before but never with the rear and front mech setups and matching wheelset and cranks.

Anyone know anything about it? I do recall Pace specced their early bikes with it?

The bike is a super condition Pace RC200 F2 19" (like my red one)
Mavic kit as follows:
Headset, shifters, hubs and cassette and rims, chsinset and rings, rear and front mech.
Lucky to find it has a Royce titanium BB on this too.
Came with the purple ringle and I swapped out the tyres as the ones originally fitted are no name weird black walls.

Keen to learn more about this groupset and why I'm missing the brakes (this has been built with 987s). Did Mavic do cantis?

Ignore the Manitou forks - that will be off as soon as I find some RC35s or RC30s.

 

[Takingabreak]

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My oh my, Mavic 531 hubs....

 

[MatBH5]

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Wow.
I remember the Mavic adverts back in ‘91/‘92 perhaps, but never saw the kit in real life at the time.
I have a wheel set and in the past sold on cranks, bottom bracket.
Always looked nicely engineered stuff. How is the shifting?

 

[KermitGKona88]

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Hubs and headset are nice, the rest is over engineered and a bit clunky, fully re-buildable though.

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

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Hubs and headset are nice, the rest is over engineered and a bit clunky, fully re-buildable though.

Yep - it does seem quite chunky - shifting is actually ok. I don't think its had much abuse.

 

[xxnick1975]

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Very cool

 

[66 triumph daytona]

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Mavic Mountain is deeply cool.The Paris Dakar hubs are arguably the best hubs of the time,the front mech and shifters are rebadged Simplex but are still very good,the cranks are works of art.The headset is one of the best and coolest looking also.Their key selling point was that it was completely rebuildable,at the time no one gave a fiddlers as XTR was released soon after and that was the death knell.If I had a Mavic specced bike I`d keep it.Other than Pace only a handful of bikes specced them due to their quirks and weight.I cant think of many,The Le Mond Look and a few Whiskeytown racers spring to mind.

 

[66 triumph daytona]

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Your rear mech is not the Mavic Mountain 845 but the 841,a road mech and possibly one of the sweetest shifting little mechs out there.Back in the day I did a bit of downhilling and we all ran small cage road mechs .My fave was the 841 and it ran flawlessly with a HG cassette and XT thumbies.It shifted better than an XT or DX short cage.It really is great tack.Clunky,heavy and solid.Dammit,a Pace with full Mavic and other choice bits,whats cooler?

 

[Retro Spud]

What’s the serial number on this one ?

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

This is R00580