{"id":36,"date":"2009-10-22T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T12:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=35"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T09:21:52","slug":"1-x-7-beater-project-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"1 x 7 Beater Project – Pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a little ‘side project’ and one that shouldn’t be taken too seriously<\/span> ok?<\/span>
There are bigger and (maybe) better things destined for this frameset but for now it is going to be a kind of ‘Parts bin, junk, beater’ build where I’m using up all sorts of crap, some of it tatty old junk, some of it new parts to create a fun 1 x 7 build suitable for my local bike park.<\/span>

Background:<\/span>
This is a 19″ Saracen Traverse Competition Hydrotech and I bought this bike new in 1991 from the Chesterfield Cycle Center (J.E James of Sheffield, England) for \u00a3600 and it was my first proper MTB. I couldn’t afford the exotic Funk in the showroom at Shockwave in Nottingham so this had to do……..it was full DX and originally had Wolber rims, Magura HydroStops, Saracen’s own bizarre oversized handlebars and a 150mm stem <\/span>\"\". Very quickly I dumped the stem and bars for a Syncros Cattleprod and some Answer Hyperlights and it stayed like this for six years while I rode it every day, putting 200 miles a week on it all year round. In 1997 after thousands of miles on this bike I bought myself a new Pace RC200 F6, gave this to a friend and promptly forgot about it. Fast forward 12 years and I get a call from this guy saying he had found an old white bike frame I’d given him and did I want it, wow….I got my baby back <\/span>\"\"

As mentioned earlier I do have some radical plans for this frame in the shape of a Singlespeed project but this 1 x 7 thing is more of a bit of fun and as a ‘proof of concept’ so its most definitely function over form…..it WILL<\/span> look ugly and have an odd mix of parts on it <\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

The bare frame (Tange MTB, weighs LOTS!!)<\/span>
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Posh headset for a piece of old crap…<\/span>
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My Crown Race Setting ‘tool’…<\/span>\"\"
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Some old forks I had laying around<\/span>
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Taking shape…<\/span>
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This is a little ‘side project’ and one that shouldn’t be taken too seriously ok?There are bigger and (maybe) better things destined for this frameset but for now it is going to be a kind of ‘Parts bin, junk, beater’ …<\/p>\n

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