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Old 10-19-19, 08:46 PM
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I ended up finding my fiance the perfect bike a few weeks ago. It's a 1989 Trek 970 and it gets bonus points for being her desired colors.

Seller's Photo (before)


Stripped the bike apart to clean and re grease


Finish Product with her preferred components


The bike rides awesome around the block, but she hasn't ridden it yet. I really dig the pink in the headbadge which is the original, non faded color, along with "USA", which was covered up.
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Old 10-19-19, 11:18 PM
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@katsup...

is that a dx groupset?
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Old 10-19-19, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by thook
@katsup...

is that a dx groupset?
It is Deore II, which later became Deore DX from what I understand.

I put modern shifters on it for ease of use.

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Old 10-19-19, 11:36 PM
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Work in progress or not, this thing is, well, Hot!

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Good eye. Hot still a work in progress.

Boots have particles of the Macaw tires, which are crumbling; and bits of other colored tires it came in contact with.


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Old 10-20-19, 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by CannedPakes
Anybody have a set of bar ends more 90's than these?

Originally Posted by DorkDisk
Challenge accepted.


I have a set of CODAs also but these are in nice shape, red, and ONZA
Originally Posted by eom
My contribution.


How can you tell they're really anodized if they're not purple?


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Old 10-20-19, 05:03 AM
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I gave my Litage its first shake down ride after a total rebuild. The 9s indexing sunrace shifters aren't that great but will try a replacing the sunrace freewheel with a shimano first before maybe going back to 7s accushift, that means other wheels too.
Needs a Turbo seat and chunky nobbies at least just for photos

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Old 10-20-19, 07:37 AM
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Picked this up for $80 yesterday. Not sure how old the frame is (can't tell cause it's been repainted), but it's got some nice old mtb parts, which is why I bought it. XTR front and rear derailleur/hub, nukeproof front hub, mavic 217 sup rims, ritchey crankset/seatpost, XT brakes, san marco squadra saddle. A lot of these parts will be going to my IBOC.



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Old 10-20-19, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Ironfish653
How can you tell they're really anodized if they're not purple?

That's a good point.

Purple was the most seen in the mags. When I bought my CNC parts BITD (via phone and credit card or snail mail and check) I always got silver or black.

Those bar ends were great, the clamp was a solution to crimping their super light hyperlite handlebars.
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Old 10-20-19, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by CannedPakes
Picked this up for $80 yesterday. Not sure how old the frame is (can't tell cause it's been repainted), but it's got some nice old mtb parts, which is why I bought it. XTR front and rear derailleur/hub, nukeproof front hub, mavic 217 sup rims, ritchey crankset/seatpost, XT brakes, san marco squadra saddle. A lot of these parts will be going to my IBOC.



That's a score in terms of parts. Ritchey cranks, XT Vs, Nuke Proof hubs, M950 front derailleur; but no shifters? Dia Compe PC-7 were short pull? Can't remember.

Frame is repaint? Don't recall DBR in anything close to that.
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Old 10-20-19, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Unca_Sam
As long as you stay in the Suntour ecosystem, it'll all work together nicely. AFAIK, different cable pulls between MTB and road shifters has only come recently. TBH, I'm not sure why Suntour went with mixed spacing for Accushift, other than to try and exclude Shimano FW and cassettes from their ecosystem.
The differences are there; but depending on what you are swapping out, YMMV. I've had good luck indexing this 7 sp Accushift thumb shifter w/ Shimano deralleur on a (coincidentally) '95 M500

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Old 10-20-19, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by DorkDisk
That's a score in terms of parts. Ritchey cranks, XT Vs, Nuke Proof hubs, M950 front derailleur; but no shifters? Dia Compe PC-7 were short pull? Can't remember.

Frame is repaint? Don't recall DBR in anything close to that.
Yeah frame's repainted for sure. Can't find a serial number anywhere either. No shifters, the guy was just running it as single speed with xtr derailleurs and a 9 speed cassette lol. The levers are tektros, they seem to work fine.
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Old 10-20-19, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by tashi
Work in progress or not, this thing is, well, Hot!
Thanks; the final build is going to be more subdued than what you see.

130mm 0 deg is way too long and low for me these days.

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Old 10-20-19, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by CannedPakes
Yeah frame's repainted for sure. Can't find a serial number anywhere either. No shifters, the guy was just running it as single speed with xtr derailleurs and a 9 speed cassette lol. The levers are tektros, they seem to work fine.
You also seem to have the cam end of S-Works skewers
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Old 10-20-19, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by DorkDisk
You also seem to have the cam end of S-Works skewers
Oh cool. There's a specialized logo on it, thought they were just regular specialized skewers.
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Old 10-20-19, 09:25 AM
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Bushwhacker Baby!



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I am now the proud owner of the 1987 Cimarron that wrk101 showed upthread, the 17" one.

The bike is very cool; I am still settling into the mtn bike sizing and wish I had an 18" to compare this one to. I don't have the seatpost extended a whole lot though, so likely this is just right, and I do ride a 52cm road bike. Mrs Al says it feels great to her, and her legs are at least as long as mine. She says the slightly sloping top tube is just as easy as a step through frame.

I don't see doing a whole lot to this bike other than cleaning it up and finding the right tires.

I will post pics when this one is really shiny.

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Here's my '88 Bianchi Forte (middle of the lineup of 5 MTBs for that year), after a few minor changes. It was pretty much all Shimano Exage Mountain components, heavily worn, so I've changed or at least removed the worn stuff.

It's funny, the headset and stem are both unbranded, but still very decent. Also the Celeste flat bars weighed around 5 pounds it felt like, so they had to go. 😉

I didn't grab a pic yet, but these SR hubs say King Kong on the black plastic dust seals. The only reference I found to that, was that they were popular with early BMXers.

Boy, black really doesn't photograph well, even in the sun. 🙄
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I picked this up on fb marketplace today. Im assuming it's a Mongoose? If it is I don't know where it fits in there hierarchy of bikes, what tubing, year.
Seem original except the tires/seat. Has all Deore in good working order and should clean up well, Araya RM20 rims. Bought it for parts but but if it's a good level of bike may restore?




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Originally Posted by jbchybridrider
I picked this up on fb marketplace today. Im assuming it's a Mongoose? If it is I don't know where it fits in there hierarchy of bikes, what tubing, year.
Seem original except the tires/seat. Has all Deore in good working order and should clean up well, Araya RM20 rims. Bought it for parts but but if it's a good level of bike may restore?

Off the top of my head, the parts are <91, 93 IBOC had a triangular top tube. Im going to guess 91 IBOC
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I've spent hours searching the net tonight here Think I've got it, it's a 89 Iboc Pro one level below the Team.
Tange double butted the seat stays are just fork legs welded back there. John Tomac rode Mongoose at the time. Yeti rebranded this frame as there own.
Been riding it around the farm too, handles great can really fling it around aggressively I like it and been wanting a 26 inch bike to use as a proper mtb.

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Picked up this Paramount PDG Series 70 last week. Needs a complete rebuild, but someone put a good bit of money in the upgrades.




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2001 Klein Attitude Comp that came in a trade today. Love the color on this one!
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Originally Posted by brandenjs
Picked up this Paramount PDG Series 70 last week. Needs a complete rebuild, but someone put a good bit of money in the upgrades.
That's a score, with nice parts too: Ringle quill stem, White hubs, Gorilla brake booster. All parts worthy of a Paramount.

Whoa, are those Grafton pedals?
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