I recall the original discussion about this frame from back around the first of September. That's pretty quick turnaround for a PC job and then finding all those components! Looks fantastic. Did the same shop that did the PC take care of those brake mounting stud misalignments you were concerned about?
I tell ya, there's nothing better than finding and old jewel of a bike/frame like this and getting it back on the road again. I did something similar last year for a local woman. She had found a Rockhopper (ca., early 90's I think) near the dumpster in the parking garage of her condo building and couldn't understand why someone was trashing what was at one time such a high quality bike. She was just coming out of an LBS where she had been quoted $200+ to overhaul it when she ran into me and said she wanted to restore it for a Christmas present for her young grandson, but didn't want to spend over $100 to do it. I said I'd take a look at it for her. Someone had scavenged the crankset and pedals and left the BB. But it, along with almost everything else on the bike was in pretty bad shape, except the tires which looked fairly new. Since I knew it was for a kid and that she didn't want to spend much money, I ordered a very low-end crankset - one of those where the three chainrings are welded together, a cheap BB, some handlebar ends (also missing), and a new chain. Then I tore everything apart and started from bottom up. I had to dremel-burnish several bushings on the rear derailer because they were so corroded. The wheels, of course, needed to be trued. I had a spare linear pull rear brake in my parts box and found another low-end NOS one at an LBS that they wanted to push so they discounted it to me so I could replace the badly abused canto's, etc, etc. In the end she was delighted and the grandson was happy as a clam to get a bike like that. On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 11:10:07 AM UTC-6, drew wrote: > > The tires are something called Halo Twin Rail. i purchased these a while > back on a whim, because they were cheap, looked ok and reportedly had good > puncture protection. i can report that they do have good puncture > protection and are not horrible on dirt....that's it. > > Ive gone through a lot of vintage treks and have such a sentimental place > in my heart for them. weirdly, a lowish end 1987 elance is the one i miss > most. an 84-86 800 series was always at the top of the desirability list > though. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
