[Closed] Cove Hummer dilemma.

Keep it, run it as winter bike hub gears, rigid fork, service the brakes.
Or strip the parts and hang the frame as an ornament.

Already got a Frankenbike for Winter duties so I'm tempted to hang the frame up in the garage . We've been through a lot of good times together 🙄

Keep it running. Plenty of decent brakes around for good prices or just service the brakes. Get the forks serviced if you can. Keep it - at least later on down the line it would sell on ok.

If it's an XL, give it to me as I have just given my bike fund to my daughter towards university life😥

That sounds like very little in the way of effort to fix, the brakes are easy enough and Marzocchis are easy as well. Both would sell.

Excellent bikes at the time but geometry has changed so much bikes handle I think much better now tried to sell my 2009 Hummer no luck so just keep it and use it a bit like a gravel bike I have rigid forks on it and a single front chain ring the Hope brakes work fine they are 10 years old may be it just worth keeping the frame hung up!!.

As what Dobie said ^^

The thing about these old bikes is the great memories and unfortunately banging a shorter stem, and longer forks on one of these bikes won't bring it into the modern era. Alas it is better to have the memories of what a cool bike it was and just hang it on the wall or use it as a pub bike

I revived a set of Hopes last year by sending them back to Hope for full service....£50 each I think but they are as good as when I bought them new - best investment I could have made & will go on for another ten years (like yours, mine had never been touched other than new pads)

£50 an end sounds about right, you can do it yourself cheaper though.

On modern geometry - it's just tomorrows history. As long as you have fun on it who gives a toss? Someone would appreciate that bike, if you won't then why not give someone else the chance?

I'm in the same boat with a Enigma Ti 26.  Currently it looks like I'll be providing the AC wheels as "race wheels" on Juniors Whyte 403, but its there in waiting for his next bike.

You can't get rid of that bike, Oldfart. Not after everything you two have been through together!

Scott you old dog how's life treating you? Settling into your new world? BTW you're probably right about the Hummer 🙄

Excellent bikes at the time but geometry has changed so much bikes handle I think much better now tried to sell my 2009 Hummer no luck so just keep it and use it a bit like a gravel bike I have rigid forks on it and a single front chain ring

This sounds good to me. I've been curious to get an old titanium 26er frame and throw some big 650b slicks in it and a short rigid fork for ages.

I've got a Cove Stiffee from about the same era - the problem is once you start trying to do anything with it you find that all the parts are obsolete, the standards have changed and if you change X you end up having to change Y and Z too.

Yours will be worth more as it's Ti vs my alu one. Basically all mine is worth now is converting it to some sort of off-road commute bike, a canal towpath cruiser so if you're struggling with what to do with it, that'd be where I'd take it.

That said, I still occasionally ride mine, it's done a fair bit at Leeds UBP (where it got called "really cool" last time, so there!) and I'll take it out on snowy days in the Peaks.

I’ve got a Cove Stiffee from about the same era – the problem is once you start trying to do anything with it you find that all the parts are obsolete, the standards have changed and if you change X you end up having to change Y and Z too.

Sorry but that's just nonsense. Yeah if you're buying new you're going to have issues, moreso with a straight 1 1/8" steerer but nothing else has changed. I can still get QR hubs in conventional width, cranks still come in non-boost and 9sp kit is still about for those that want it. Everything else is still the same old. My old Rev 426's can still be rebuilt (it's just o-rings), my even older Marzocchi's can still get SKF standard industrial seals and I still have the same choice of rubber in 26".

I think what he is really saying its just not worth the hassle to put parts on it and as you say the biggest problem is getting forks that's why a few years ago I sold my 26"Remedy 2012 as I knew I would not be able to get a new set of tapered forks for it same goes for my Hummer that's why I got some rigid forks on it.

I kind of like the way semi-obsolescence can fire change. I have a really old Setavento ti frame that was in turn a direct copy of a first generation Marin Rocky Ridge. At some indeterminate point in the past when it basically started to feel old and short and twitchy, I stuck on a 26" On One rigid carbon fork with a 29" front wheel and a flat bar to keep the front end down.

Then it got an outboard eccentric bottom bracket for a neat-looking, slightly fiddly singlespeed conversion. Then a 27.5 WTB Scraper front rim with a 2.8" b+ tyre in the same fork. Now it's back to being a singlespeed 26" rigid thing. I quite like that it's still a rideable bike, even if I don't actually ride it that often and it's not very like what it was when it first arrived.

Scott you old dog how’s life treating you? Settling into your new world? BTW you’re probably right about the Hummer

Aye, all good thanks. It's been snowing like crazy since I got here but I think we're just about to see the back of that. All being well the trails will start to clear in the next couple weeks and I can finally start riding again. Been bikeless since August so I'm really missing it...

Reckon we'll see you out in this part of the world again?

And yeah, don't get rid of your hummer. It's too cool. Even cooler when a rad old ba$tard like you is seen riding it.

Rad old barsteward ? Moi ? 🤓 Anyhoo as for once more before the reaper comes calling it's a possibility . My mate Geoff wants to pop his Wizzler cherry , I've been trying to contact Bearback without any luck 🙄 Mike Kennedy gave me contact details for Martin Rowe (I think ) a friend of Peter's , he offers accommodation for riders . Lives just behind Eldeweiss but again I'm getting no response 🙄
So where exactly (I don't mean house number etc ) is it you've settled ?
Did you know I'm now messing about in the woods on a Kona Remote Control ? It's a blast !

Haha, yeah. I've got fond memories of you getting a bit radder than intended on that bike round some of the valley trails. Rock rolls a-plenty!

The only guy I know in Whistler now is Joe Howard (manbeast) - was he there when you did yer season? I think he did 2009 or 2010. He lives there full time nowadays so might know some people to speak to about accommodation.

If you're just looking for accommodation then check out Creekside. They extended the park and lift-access over to that side a couple of years ago, and IIRC there are plenty of self-catered apartments there which might not be quite as expensive as the main village.

We're in Parksville on Vancouver Island. I don't think the riding's quite as full on as a lot of the stuff on the mainland, but there's plenty to be getting on with. It's only about 20 mins away from the ferry terminal at Nanaimo, and once on the other side you're only 20 mins to Squamish and 20 mins to the Shore though, so if I start feeling brave again I can venture over... Though after my big crash in 2017 it's fair to say I've backed off the gas a bit. Was lucky to walk away from that one, and even cats only have so many lives...

If you do make it across, make sure to let me know. I can always pop over for a pootle, or you can come and ride over here (I should have a pretty good grasp of the trails by then). The house we're in for the moment is pretty small, so I could only really offer you and your buddy a futon and an air mattress, but you'd be more than welcome!

I can't say I did know about your electrical exploits. Glad to hear you're enjoying it! The bike looks pretty beefy and seems like it'd be bit of a giggle.