Has anyone done these things to an older mountain bike? Long time cyclist but new to this kind of thing. Any advice, suggestions, or experience is appreciated greatly
by Owesterj
Has anyone done these things to an older mountain bike? Long time cyclist but new to this kind of thing. Any advice, suggestions, or experience is appreciated greatly
by Owesterj
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I have done it before it seems to work fine
You might have to replace the headset but i didnt when i changed my forks to threadless ones and you should easily be able to change to a 1x crankset but just make sure the chainring is where the middle one used to be to have a good chainline
I’m not sure I would do the fork.
It’s possible – you can only fit a 1” fork in there and those aren’t that common (I’ve got one!), and then you’ll need a 1” headset which also aren’t common (but there are a few around) – and then any modern stem will be 1 1/8 so you’ll need a shim there (cheap and easy). I’m just not sure after all that money it will give you any advantage. If you want a modern stem I’d just use a threadless converter.
You could spend $100 on a decent RS Indy XC with a threaded steerer. Then buy a 1″ threaded to 1 1/8″ threadless adapter. Probably a new headset too as that one is likely not suitable (ball and cup OG that’s 30 years old).
Then you’ll need a stem. The deeper you dig, the bigger the hole gets.
It reads 800 on the seat tube not 850. I would try and sell that bike as is and look for a better frame if you are going to put money into it