ashley_photog
this was my first mountain bike back in 1994, was bascally a heap of assembled cheap parts, but still managed to finish 5th in the race I'd just finished here.
Basic Tektro Budgets brakes (wore them out in the end)
Sugino 300 cranks
Shimano DX gears (thumbshifters, whic I still have)
DCD
and a raft on noname parts
Stop Laughing at the Lycra!
Basic Tektro Budgets brakes (wore them out in the end)
Sugino 300 cranks
Shimano DX gears (thumbshifters, whic I still have)
DCD
and a raft on noname parts
Stop Laughing at the Lycra!
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norcohardtail27 said on 27 December 2009
awesome. retro downhill bike.
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DBDraceteam said on 3 April 2009
nice bike love the frame
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euxodusmtb said on 27 January 2009
Don't care about the bike but your top is a 10 for sure, used to ride the quarry myself
ashley_photog replied... on 27 January 2009
Yeah was a pity they stopped using it for open riding, used to ride there often as I went to school 5 miles away (the bus in the background is the clue). I bought that top as I used to own raleigh Bannana road bike, it was a total heap, with high-tensile steel tubing, not even Cro-Mo, but it helped me do some serious road mileage on a bike that was never designed for it.
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KarmicReaper said on 26 January 2009
Nice old school rig mate! Reminds me of my first mountain bike which was a Raleigh with a Reynolds 501 frame. I was about 13 and at the tme I thought it as awesome.
ashley_photog replied... on 26 January 2009
I know how you feel, to e this bike was amazing, and I only changed it when I broke it (riding into concrete bollards, not a good idea)
ashley_photog replied... on 26 January 2009
I know how you feel, to e this bike was amazing, and I only changed it when I broke it (riding into concrete bollards, not a good idea)
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martin_fry said on 26 January 2009
Fair play, nice looking bike for the year, thumies have never been superceeded since this day, and is that a tioga psyco tires
ashley_photog replied... on 26 January 2009
I'm still wondering what to do with those thumbies, they've survived one trashed bikes, and another one that got stolen (changed shifter's over to Sachs just before it got nicked). Yep that is a Phsyco(original not the II) on the front, the rear was the rare to find Specialized More Extreme II, which was an awesome mud tyre, but the front was tioga was designed for hardpack, it was useless on nearly everything else.. helemt was a bit basic even for back then, simply cos I didn't have much money (as if you could alread tell)lol
martin_fry replied... on 26 January 2009
early days for helmet designs as well i guess, lmao
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ashley_photog said on 23 January 2009
Look at all that Purple! oh the shame! it wasn't a bad bike, though the top tube was way too short, sufered terrible chain suck till I added the DCD (wish I still had one now). For a rigid it weighed around 25lb with a steel Reynolds 501 frame, so wasn't amazingly light. But for £150 you can't argue.
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kalom said on 23 January 2009
cant stop laughing
ashley_photog replied... on 23 January 2009
I agree, but stop giving me good score's, people are less likely to see it then!
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