Every time I'm in Bristol I drop into the Bristol bike workshop on Colston street and almost talk myself into buying an older frame for a hack/pub/town bike. Last time I was in they had a lovely Rocky Mountain Blizzard which was a bike I really wanted when I start d out. Discs would be a deal-breaker for me though, happy to run rigid and no dropper but sod canti or v brakes urghÂ
Ha, I forgot I started this thread! And it looks like I never did update it with the outcome. I bought a nice Orange P7 with segmented forks, had my fun with it and sold it on again. The bloke I sold it to really went to town and dripped it with period XTR, Spinnegy wheels and a respray!
Looks ace on both versions.
Did he ride it after putting on all that fancy period kit?
Don't know sorry, that photo was all the detail I got. Could anyone old enough to be interested in all that old stuff even sit on a bike with that saddle to bar height drop? I couldn't! 😁
1999 dekerf, bought second hand in 2000. disc mounted, resprayed with salsa cromoto forks to match and SS'd in 2012. plus front added in 2016(?) Stooge Junker bars in 2019. Still a hell of a lot of fun to ride, and SS hurts me on the hills every time! might lower the gear at some point.
There's some great bikes on this thread but yours, @nedrapier, is awesome, it looks like a , ****ton of fun. Thanks for posting again...