Belgarath Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 I had a Cannondale M500 with a Girvin flexstem with Curve cantilever brakes that took about 2 hours per wheel to set up to get a good bite... I remember the craze of everyone going from 7 to 8 speed and having to replace everyone's freehub bodies on their wheels to do so. Somewhere in this outjie's life it got a 3x9 XT groupset, and Deore V-brakes. Don't think the wheels are standard either - Mavic with Hope hubs. wheels are better specced than on my MTB
Halfdoesyn Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Bought a red Nishiki Rockhopper back in '92. Equipped with Shimano sis - which I could never get to work properly. Put many student miles on it. Wonder if it's still alive...
Sharkcatcher01 Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 post-61473-0-16365500-1463427223.jpg Not a good photo, but I got this pre-2000s Cannondale M500 that is now my commuter. Really like this bike. It is in the process of being cleaned up. I want to get rid of the stickers, but not sure how to without damaging the paintwork. Just use a hair dryer on the stickers to loosen up the glue and they should peel off. If they leave a sticky residue i use DOOM insect stuff and a cloth and it should wipe off.
GrahamS2 Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 I had a Cannondale M500 with a Girvin flexstem with Curve cantilever brakes that took about 2 hours per wheel to set up to get a good bite... I remember the craze of everyone going from 7 to 8 speed and having to replace everyone's freehub bodies on their wheels to do so.Remember when the XT parallelogram brakes came out? They were the berries!! Except in the wet...
Skinnyone Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Remember when the XT parallelogram brakes came out? They were the berries!! Except in the wet... Or when the pivots started to wear....I went from the Curve canti's to Vee's when Tektro came out with some cheapies (wanted to see what the hype was about and was still in school so had a VERY tight budget) and I couldn't believe the difference! I could stop and repeatedly without having to re-adjust my brakes every weekend... I also went from a steel rigid fork to a RST elastomer fork then to a Marzocchi oil/air fork and could't get over the difference that +-60mm/2in of travel made on the front...oh how I dreamed for a "long travel" 100mm/4in fork I used to race downhill on my Kona Lava Dome steel HT with that fork on...
Barry_W Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 I still ride my Bridgestone MB 2 all the time, it's my only MTBGirvin Flex stem, Rock Ring, Crud catcher and Panaracer Dart front tyre all "state of the art" in 1991
GrahamS2 Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Or when the pivots started to wear....I went from the Curve canti's to Vee's when Tektro came out with some cheapies (wanted to see what the hype was about and was still in school so had a VERY tight budget) and I couldn't believe the difference! I could stop and repeatedly without having to re-adjust my brakes every weekend... I also went from a steel rigid fork to a RST elastomer fork then to a Marzocchi oil/air fork and could't get over the difference that +-60mm/2in of travel made on the front...oh how I dreamed for a "long travel" 100mm/4in fork I used to race downhill on my Kona Lava Dome steel HT with that fork on...Haha, elastomer forks were soooo heavy! At least they didn't bend every time I jumped the bike like solid forks did. I still have a Biopace big ring floating around somewhere in my bike parts cupboard. I keep it to reminisce over.
johnson Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Oh my Thunder !!! I Just peed my pants a little bit ! 4:45 and 5:30
Belgarath Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Oh my Thunder !!! I Just peed my pants a little bit ! 4:45 and 5:30 Ek ook! Inferior equipment + no skill = very good viewing
HeyYou Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 I had 1 of these, gave it away about 8 years ago, idiot!!!!!! PROFLEX OFFROAD 550 ---- Full sus, very advanced for the time, I think I bought it 88
V12man Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Oh yes and the Gripshift (long before Sram bought them out) Xray 400 shifters that you had to disassemble to change the cables on...I still have a set of those.... on a bike.... and they work...
HeyYou Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Not my first mtb though, my first was a YOKOTA YOSIMITE, something like this. I bought in the US in 1986/7, brought it back, rode it a goodd few years, but it got stolen sometime mid 90s.
Skinnyone Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 I still have a set of those.... on a bike.... and they work... Yep they were pretty bullet proof...I crashed mine plenty and went thru replacement grips more before selling the bike on...
Martin PJ Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Our old bikes were rubbish. Love my new 29 er. Disk brakes and tubeless tires, can't beat them. Still got my old steel green bike from 25 years ago, will never sell it. My son used my old bike a couple of years back, tried to smash the trails like he normally did. Came round the corner and he was wrapped around some bushes. Much like the gents trying to downhill in this video with rigid bikes. I love that video.
V12man Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 OK - this is the real deal - my face is in here somewhere, as are several of the old MTB guard - Sedgefield, 1992....
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