Hello guys! I’m just wondering if you have any ideas for improvement, other than a good service, wash and polish? The bike belonged to my beloved late uncle, who died from cancer one year ago, Dec 3.
I have just recently fitted new tires and been riding it a couple times around town now, and as you might have noticed from the seat position, I am a bit tall for the bike. But I really want to make it work, because I have a lot of great memories from riding with my uncle and want to keep using his bike. You guys think it could work out with a bmx handlebar maybe? My plan is to tear it down completely, and rebuild as a commuter with both new and old parts this winter.
So – any and all suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.
by Berntolini
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I have the same pedals! Ditch the bar ends, go for a shorty/bmx stem for a more relaxed riding position, riser bar in the future would help. Deore/cues 1x drivetrain, with the crankset. Buying a narrow wide chainring for 94bcd is like the same price as an mt501 bb and new crankset so just do that. finish it off with a rack or frame bag.
Is the seat post still within the minimum insertion depth? I really don’t know if it’s worthwhile investing the time/money into a frame that is far too small for you.
By all means keep the frame for sentimentality, but I wouldn’t ride this. Sorry this probably isn’t the comment you were looking for.
Add a basket
I would swap a suspension corrected rigid fork on it and some moto bars.
Uncle had good taste in bikes.
Here’s an idea… uncle definitely liked to tinker, the components are from three or four different generations of Deore, Deore LX, XTR, and XT. Could you build up a frame that fits with some/most of his parts? That way it’s still an homage, without being impractical.
Keep it as is
Make it a pump track bike! Single speed, short stem (stem adapter and modern stem), wide handlebars, Billy Bonkers, super low seat post, strip everything not necessary: fenders, front derailleur etc.
Service the fork.
Have fun jumping and pumping.
Your front fender isn’t going to do anything if it’s mounted backwards
Turquoise grips, purple shift cable housing, yellow compressionless brake housing, swiss stop salmon pads, pink pedals, tinsel saddle streamers, pep boys flames stickers on the frame with the 3800 Supercharged badge from a pontiac grand prix or buick regal epoxied onto the top tube, rigid fork, wald basket, 1×12 di2 conversion, weld on three disc calipers under the downtube, bag someplace to put yer weeeed…
I’d put on an xtr cranck, or maybe even single in the front, and change the suspension
Looks good to me
I mean it’s pretty x-bikey
Bikeman carver fork, CSM680 cassette, Wolf Tooth Roadlink hanger extender, Deckas chainring, remove front shifter, chainrings, and derailer.
If it fits your wife, I’d build it out for her.
Big “if.” Seat tube and standover are not great ways to fit a mountain bike, I tend to look mainly at reach although Lee’s [RAD ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHagRovHSYs)system makes a lot of sense to me. Try it and see if you can put a short enough stem on it to make it work for her.
If so, you could make a pretty — um, *rad* bike for her. I might consider a old SID fork, keep er light. 1×10. Mimic saddle. Keep the brakes, I love the durn things. They need to be maintained tho. Those are exquisite tires, she could ride that thing anywhere and have a blast doing it.
If not you could still make a decent cruiser for her, just need some pullback handlebars, eg Riv Bosco, spring for the aluminum version. I dunno about the carver fork mentioned previously, not quite long enough. I’d consider soma’s tange 440mm fork or similar length Carbon Cycles fork, which maintains the “racer” look
Beautiful bike and if you’re paying attention you can make a nice light build. But, not a great idea to be riding an aluminum frame that’s two sizes too small. Too easy to crack the thing