Following my 1995 bike content thread my ex workmate saw the post on FB , turns out he's still got it , still in his shed , hasn't been ridden for years . I offered to check it over price up what wants doing for him , he's said not interested in riding anymore if I want it back I can have it for nothing.
Now what do I do ? Going to need new tyres and tubes at least I'm guessing, could be a can of worms and ride Ike a dog , I've no need for another bike it's not likely to be worth a lot even if I got it going.
So the sensible response is thanks but no thanks right? 🤔🙄
Marin Bobcat Trail for reference with Gripshift 🙄
A decent if not high end steel frame from what I remember.
I still keep an eye out despite the naysayers on my thread 😜
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/bike-forum/would-you-buy-the-bike-from-your-youth/
It’s free, you may as well.
But as wall art/a show pony if it’s in mint, original condition that deserves lots of NOS kit.
Or as a pub bike if it’s battered. Have low expectations on how it will ride. Don’t spend much on it
I had a ‘92 eldridge grade, with mucho* upgrades, Aheadset, V brakes, offset rear rim, riser bars etc.
i loved it, and did everything on it, for more than a decade.
But the simple fact is, modern bikes are better in pretty much every conceivable way, with the possible exception of the wow factor when you lift them up.
@tomhoward is correct on this.
*for 1992
It'll ride horribly. Leave it in the past, and preserve the memory of how rad it was in the 90s.
You will always be kicking yourself if you don't get it.
Get it back - then figure out what you are going to do with it!
It won't ride horribly, it'll just ride like it always did. Totally different to a modern bike but a perfectly acceptable mode of transport.
Oh, and if I was offered either my 89 Tufftrax (unlikely, my BiL skipped it!) or 89 Clockwork back I'd snap the owners hand off.
After your thread I started to find what Muddy Fox I got in the early ‘90s because I suspect one of them would make a half-decent flat bar gravel bike!
No luck so far - I remember it was cromo with non-tapered fork legs, narrow flat bars, very long stem, predated bar ends being popular, 3x7 with RapidFire shifters and a 21” frame that I never grew into! 😉
I was looking at a 95 Cinder Cone at the weekend. Same as my old one. Looks 100% original, except for the fork; the seller said he could only find a later P2 fork for it.
I have the correct fork in my workshop...
Full on restomod or cafe cruiser, but definitely get it back
Get it back, get it running, ride it about as a utility bike that you can leave outside the pub/shop/station
Or full on resto mod it an keep it as a thing to have instead of a thing to ride. Then take it to bike shows and display it
He's digging it out of the shed today .
Excellent. It's n+1 time.
It's a tinkering project.
It's a pub and supermarket run bike.
It's a silly thing to take out and not stop giggling at how wobbly it rides, you see regular trails in a new light.
Enjoy.
(Anyone got a Al Carter Sacramento or a P7 in *that* Matt black and orange paint job?
It might give me an excuse to buy a pair of Billy Bonkers tyres ! What's not to like 😁
It might give me an excuse to buy a pair of Billy Bonkers tyres ! What's not to like
They really zip along - when I ride my old Kona through the park to the pub, I'm always surprised how well it rolls
