bark_eater 

I rescued a lugged Stump Jumper with a bi-plane fork from the local scrap yard. It was 30 feet up on the pile and had to be retrieved with "the claw" It got pretty beat up in its travels. The frame has is scratched up, has some rust and the chainstays are crimped from a kick stand. The fork has a broken canti post. The bullmoose-esque stem and handle bars look good, as does the crank set and pedals and seat post. Both wheels and half the components are toast though. I'm getting the fork repaired but that's going to trash the chrome. After the repair I will have $50 into it. I'm planning on some sort sort of rust treatment and a rattle can finish for now. Beyond that I have no idea what to do with this frame. At this point I cant see it being an kind of period correct restoration, and I don't need it to be a particular kind of bike. I could see it replacing the frame of my Bridgestone CB-1 Moustache bar "Country bike" (With Exage "Country" components) , but "if it ain't broke, why fix it?
I know its a nice frame, but function over form, whats it good for?

Salamandrine 

Another country style bike of course. I'd go for a riv style build with albatross bars, sugino crank, cheap derailleurs, decent wheels. An early Stumpjumper is a more deluxe frame than a CB-1 really, and it's also a full mountain bike, not a city bike. I looked for one for a while before giving up and getting a Rivendell Clem. OTOH original bullmoose is kinda cool so you might leave those. Yeah, there's some overlap with a CB-1, but n+1 and all... Hammerite makes a decent rattle can finish if you can find some in a rattle can.

TenGrainBread 

I say...
DON'T spend money on the fork repair. Get this fork from Crust Bikes instead:

https://crustbikes.com/products/clydesdale-fork/

Cargo fork that uses a 20in wheel. Designed for old non-suspension 26" mtbs. Comes in canti or disc, 1" or 1 1/8.

I have one on my early 90s Giant ATX 760 and it is my favorite bike. I have a huge milk crate on front and it makes shopping super easy. I have also used it on short tours and some off-road touring and it is great. Handles like a normal bike. I've carried firewood, massive cases of adult beverages, drums, metalworking equipment, bike frames, and a host of other stuff in it.

bark_eater 

Well... That certainly is something I didn't know I needed.

The CB-1 is nothing fancy, but it does have a lower bottom bracket than most mountain bikes, which I kind of like. With 175mm cranks, I tend to coast the corners.

tiredhands 

I just finished up the final build of an '85 Stumpy I got in a sorry shape a few years ago in Right Proper Country Fashion. I haven't yet had time to ride it much, the roads here are still pretty treacherous.




It also had a broken cantilever boss, but I was able to use the Problem Solvers repair kit (https://www.wheelandsprocket.com/pro...t-182070-1.htm) But that Crust Clydesdale fork is at the top of my "must buy" list, if the bike's the right size it's an ideal excuse to get one.

The Golden Boy 

Are you talking about Bullmoose bars or the fancy sculpted stem like this one:






Either or are really cool. Even the much more common MTS-100 stem is pretty doggone cool.

At one point I wanted to swap out the bullmoose for drops- but decided against it. They're just too cool.

Happy Feet

I picked up a junker 1984 Diamondback Ridge Runner and did this with it.

bark_eater 

The bull moose bars look to be MTS-100's. The handle bar itself is Specialized branded. I'm going to hold on to all parts and keep an eye out for a matching right hand thumb shifter. The tommaselli racer brakes realy only need a new barrel adjuster, but cockpit could be its own restoration project.

I saw the Problem solvers kit and they would let me save the chrome on the fork. Its dinged up enough would probably not leave it "bright" and repaint it to match the frame, anyway, so I figures a brazed on replacement would be a safer option.

Is there a way to replicate the black cracked paint patina I've seen on 1930's bikes?

The Golden Boy 

bark_eater 

tiredhands 

An old Stumpy can shred, too, so maybe you “need” something that can handle some sketchy loose gravel or roots. Here’s my ‘85 in a previous incarnation, it was rad for stumping around in the sand and swamp of the Panhandle.

fietsbob

My find; an old SJ Sport, frame, no fork , broken drive side dropout,
now has 2 long horizontal dropout tips. fork found, tange chromoly ..

now parked with studded tire wheels on it, at the ready (doesn't ice up for long, here)..




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jetboy 

I am sort of in the same place with a trash find... cyclepro not a stumpy, but similar. I already have a pretty much stock stumpjumper sport, so thinking this one might do for a more city cruiser. needs to be completely rebuilt in any case so gonna paint it. I like that sort of olive thing going on above.

The Golden Boy 

I think you've got a cool idea of retro-izing it- kind of recalling the old 1930s-50s Raleighs. I tend to want to turn everything I own into a tourer- it's cool, but it shows my blinders.

Salamandrine 

Paint the frame with black nitrocellulose lacquer; it will crackle eventually. Or, use a clear lacquer topcoat over black enamel, and it will crack immediately. When you violate the fat over lean rule, the result is cracks. For any kind of finishing experiments: TEST FIRST ON SCRAP.

dweenk

I bought a CrisCross a few years ago for $25. The paint is rough, it is a bit small for me, and it is hanging in the rafters right now. I have been hoping that my wife or my son would want to ride it. Doesn't look like that is going to happen.

Trakhak

If the fork with the broken canti mount is chrome, it probably wasn't the original fork. I'd check the top and down tubes near where they join the head tube to see whether they're bent from a front-end impact.

The Golden Boy 

jetboy 

But it makes you Jump! Jump!

but name aside, they are pretty nice bikes. wasn't there a whole line of "cross" bikes? some at the top were pretty keen.

The Golden Boy 

simmonsgc

From a previous discussion on this in a thread I can't remember....someone checked the catalog and the "quality" rank from top to bottom of that line was: Crosscut > CrissCross > Crossfit.
More useless stuff to stick in yer head.

bark_eater 

DiegoFrogs

Does your Stumpy have the type of cantilever stud that is swaged into an open sheet metal box? These were quite common in the early MTB days and also on some touring bikes.

I have this type on a Ross MTB from this time frame that I keep at my family's house in the USA, and one of the studs came off in my hand along with the caliper a couple years back. I piggybacked on someone else's old thread here about a cheap fix involving grinding a nylock nut and using a cheap modern replacement stud along with an assortment of various washers. It works well still after several years. If I had a bunch of time, I would have machined a block that fit exactly in the box with a threaded hole (and made three extras for the others), but I didn't have the resources where I keep the bike.

I think you can fix it for perhaps $5 and keep the paint if this is the case.

fietsbob

I bypassed the cantilever brake studs , by building a set of drum brake hub wheels ..

as it wears studded tires , I got 45mm wide rims
from All Weather sports in Fairbanks AK.

Suomi Nokian tires shipped from Finland..

bark_eater 

The cantiliver mount is different from the ones that can spin. i have another frame with 3 out 4 spinning. I might try the problem solvers kit but I got quoted $35 for a proper repair. I'll try and get pictures next week, when I get a little shop time.