the unofficially cool MTB drop bar thread
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frkl
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Hello All,
Amazing builds here and some fantastic info.
Drop bar mountain bikes are my current thing, and I've built up several.
This was a NOS mid/early 1990s Shogun frame from the German brand--somehow related, I think, to the Prairie Breaker Shogun through suppliers, but not the same. It had a 1 1/4 inch headset, and I couldn't find a good stem with the correct rise and reach, so I used the quill of a crmo 1 1/4 stem, which is 28,6mm, as an adapter for a 1 1/8 threadless stem. Worked well and gave me a lot of stem options.
Shifting was a 1x8 system controlled by a 6 speed XT thumbshifter in friction mode, mounted on a Deore thumbie bracket (steel, reshaped to the correct diameter).
Amazing builds here and some fantastic info.
Drop bar mountain bikes are my current thing, and I've built up several.
This was a NOS mid/early 1990s Shogun frame from the German brand--somehow related, I think, to the Prairie Breaker Shogun through suppliers, but not the same. It had a 1 1/4 inch headset, and I couldn't find a good stem with the correct rise and reach, so I used the quill of a crmo 1 1/4 stem, which is 28,6mm, as an adapter for a 1 1/8 threadless stem. Worked well and gave me a lot of stem options.
Shifting was a 1x8 system controlled by a 6 speed XT thumbshifter in friction mode, mounted on a Deore thumbie bracket (steel, reshaped to the correct diameter).
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epicyclo
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That's a nice functional looking build.
epicyclo
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I grew up in the Rough Stuff era, so dropbars on an offroad bike were a given. This is my Dawes Cougar mtb (531ST) modified into an 1980s gravel bike if gravel had been thing back then. (i.e. it's my Rough Stuff Bike)
I used the parts I thought Dawes would have used if they had built a bike like this, e.g. nos Ideale saddle, S-A hubs, alloy rims, North Road bars, wing-nuts on the axles instead of QR (didn't have a set for the front when I took the pic), GB forged stem, etc
I used the parts I thought Dawes would have used if they had built a bike like this, e.g. nos Ideale saddle, S-A hubs, alloy rims, North Road bars, wing-nuts on the axles instead of QR (didn't have a set for the front when I took the pic), GB forged stem, etc
frkl
Retro Guru
I am a big fan of this style bar, I think it gets the hand position just right and lets you use 22.2 bits. I have actually never had a bike with flat bars, either swept back or drop.
Pic here from the wrong side, sorry, and this has since been converted to full drops:
And yeah, the whole gravel thing is so innovative, it's just mind-blowing.
frkl
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Corratec 2005 from 1992
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I’ve already posted about this bike in various places on the forum, but now here is a proper bike thread, since the bike is finally coming together. I got the bike, a 1992 Corratec 2005, in Fall 2021, from the original owner, still living in the town next to the one where he bought the bike 30...
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