georges1

nice bikes , thanks for sharing

brightsideofit 

Love the color on the purple one. What's the deal with the cranks on the red one? Is that a single chain ring between two chain ring guards?

Korina

Who are you replying to? It's best to either QUOTE the post or earburn the person; @ and whatever their handle is; just don't use the autofill, it doesn't work.

melville

Nice to see you here! I useta work with Tim Rutledge in Seattle. That bike has 650B size wheels, no?

I like the Campy BMX pedals on the other one. Mine are also blue.

Portlandjim

Yes, 650B wheels on the CX bike. Originally had Hakkapeliitta knobby tires. I had to come up with all the parts for this bike, I just got the frame. Bruce Gordon used those tires for his Rock n Road tires, which is what's on here. Both bike have Campy BMX pedals, the CX bike has titanium spindles from Super Record pedals. I made the black pedals. The cages were cut using a $500K water jet cutting machine, I got a guy to do a G job for me. These pedals are almost impossible to find!




The crank is Dura Ace EX, with CX chain guards that I made. I know, this proves I'm insane! Jim Merz

VtwinVince

Wow, those Merz's are fantastic pieces of history. Interesting to see how road parts were repurposed on these really early mountain bikes.

gthomson

Can anyone comment on the quality of Concorde mountain bikes? Found this Concorde Sunrise with Shimano Exage 300 group set on FB market and it's in great shape. Perfect size for me and the colour scheme is decent but a little pricey for me, so want to know if they are worth it.

I'm loving my Peugeot mtn. bike but can't stop my eyes from always roaming.

curbtender

Exage is nice working group but would be entry level.

james89

Hopefully picking this up soon

riverdrifter

I’ve posted this pic on another thread, but here is a 1994 Cannondale M700 that I did a mild restomod for my son. It was in pretty good shape when I got it, so it didn’t need much. It did require a new headset and a conversion to threadless, which was a bit of a hassle with the 1.25” headtube. I found a NOS headset on EBay, and used a Nitto threadless adapter.

DQRider 

Just sold this, due to financial necessity:





It was going to get the full period-correct Deerhead XT components, black Brooks Professional saddle, Smoke and Dart tires, and my usual custom embellishments. Now the `83 Ross Mt. Whitney chrome is back on my Grail List. I'll probably never find another in my size that I can afford... Still, needs must, right?
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Positron400

Lovely looking frame. I particularly like the cantis. Always been a fan of these style of brakes, looks-wise.

t2p

vintage MTB ride last night after a seatpost and seat change

and gave it some extra love with a King cage - well deserved after patiently waiting to be rebuilt after sitting in the basement for 20 years

22.2 lbs as it sits in the photo ... not bad not bad

curbtender

Going to move parts over to a smaller bike for a deceased friend's daughter. The kids couldn't ride it so it has sat outside...dam.

victorm

Weaselshark

what a beautiful Ritchey!!!

georges1

My 1996 scapin

laughatdanger

Nice! I have the bright green '91 team version

merziac

WOW!

That's some serious hardware there. Was going to say the the brakes, stem and wheels should stay with the Ritchey and looks like some of it will but the X53 Reynolds Voodoo is no slouch either so....

Hope the Ritchey is getting some love too, pretty dang special as they always are.

curbtender

Thinking of finding an old picture of him riding and blowing it up to fit in the frame triangle. I have a wall mount bike holder. Hopefully that will get it back in the house. 853 on the VD.

daywood 

This is about as close as I've come to a restoration. Usually, it's more like, "This is a nice frame. What can we make of it?" But I think these High Sierras have beautifully understated paint schemes and graphics, quirky running gear, and comfortable ergonomics, so I tried to stay faithful to the original as much as possible.





As I noted in my post in the "Your Catch of the Day / Saved from the Dump!" thread, I found this bike in a thrift shop at the coast for $5. I was able to clean up and save all of the running gear and controls except for the headset, where rust had lifted a lot of the chrome off the cups, and the bear trap pedals because the "trap" was badly mangled on one of them. I still might try to repair the pedals and reunite them with the bike, but for now I found another pair with the right zeitgeist at my local community bike shop.





The paint was also too far gone so I stripped it down to bare metal and luckily found that the rusty spots were only superficial. I repainted it brown and bronze like the original two-tone scheme and applied a set of NOS decals I got from a seller on eBay. (Thanks for the tip on that, zookster.)






Someone before me had replaced the slingshot stem and riser bars with a conventional mountain bike stem and mountain flat bar. Fortunately they kept the original controls. I rounded up a slingshot stem of the right model, and a riser bar with similar rise and width as the original.





The tires are also similar in size to the tan-wall originals, and they are running on the original wheels, which are surprisingly light.

I didn't think I was going to be able to save the fenders that a previous owner had added. The champagne color of them goes nicely with the frame colors. I couldn't find new replacements so, with a heat gun and some massaging, I was able to get them back into reasonable shape.





The classic color scheme and vintage profile of the bike led to a lot of fun sourcing accessories. With so much of the original equipment being in good shape, that was really where most of the cost of the project was, which was relatively speaking, not much.





My impressions so far riding it are that the roller cam brakes are not as difficult to set up as I thought they would be, and they are strong. I wish I could put a set of them on the back of my tandem. The reverse-pull front derailleur is odd but it works, I think mostly because it has an incredibly strong spring to pull the chain up onto the large chain ring in its slack position. But I have to think about it being backwards every time I shift it so I don't think I'll ever love it. The 6-speed freewheel covers a lot of range (14-32T) but there are big jumps between the first four cogs. I think I'll be switching chain rings a lot more than I normally do to stay within the range of the more closely spaced cogs. I didn't initially think I'd be able to get the height and reach I wanted from the slingshot stem but I'm thinking now that it will work fine for me. Overall, it's comfortable to ride.

The main question now is whether to go all in and wear a tweed jacket with elbow patches and smoke a pipe while I ride it.

Clyde1820

daywood , that High Sierra is downright beautiful. Nicely done. Perhaps not a tweed and pipe platform, but it probably wouldn't look out of place on a foggy morning's ride.

Positron400

daywood Thing of beauty this groupset - esp the cranks and the RD - amazing restoration!

JacobLee 

Nice bike, and nice photo layouts. You obviously have a great deal of patience.

DQRider 

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