Cool build. Love the pugs

So I picked one up the “street life” I’ve been running a fixed gear n it floats forreal the bb was very smooth so I kept it in an it’s an very solid frame I do enjoy the dark green sparkle original paint tho

Gravel bike is like SUV in the car industry

Studded tyres.

Nice!

I don't see why gravel bikes are such a big deal. Just get a basic mountain bike, outfit it with street biased or dual use tires, and you're good to go. An old rigid MTB with a 3x7 drivetrain with appropriate tires would work fine. Plus, with its upright seating position, it's a lot more COMFORTABLE too!

I still ride my dad's old Lightspeed from 96! I've replaced all the components at this point because it's had a good life of hard use. The components aren't all period correct, but the bike as a whole still is. I've taken it down the Downieville Classic, and used it for hundreds of miles of bikepacking. Currently it's in gravel mode with touring tires because I have modern bikes for rowdier singletrack, but I absolutely love it still! It's great for long days and long adventures on road and trail.

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I have also rediscovered my MTB roots from the early 90's....have quite a collection of bikes back then that were only a pipe dream back then. Enjoy my current ride a Intense primer but get a kick riding my vintage GT, Bontrager, Specialized hard tails in the environment and also finding vintage bikes and components. The search and discovery are a blast

I love saving old bikes too! The good ones anyway.

Would look nice with tan wall tyres, i have been getting Baldies Tyres ftom Baldwins Cycles,( ebay ) similar to what we had back then. Still cant find inexpensive repro bullmoose bars tho . Super nice bike 🤙

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I’ve had enough of these videos. These bikes are cool and they’re nostalgic but when you actually ride them their pieces of junk one trail ride you’re like OK that was fun back to my modern trail bike lol

Those suntour shifters ❤️

Beautiful, nice job. These days I am into stumpjumpers, beautiful machines.

That bike is good for another 40 years. It will still be running when today's new carbon frames are in the landfill.

cool solution but im not sure if i would trust anything plastic on my bike to be very durable or safe especially in high stress places like the drive train

I have collected 80’s MTB/ATB for years. I find I ride these more often than my road bikes for daily tasks or short trips

This is a great bike, definitely worth fixing. Those bikes are also good to make touring bikes.. The 26" wheels are still the most common around the world. Bikes like that one are so well made that you can pretty much go anywhere without the worry of destroying parts that are hard to come by.

I think that these mtbs were the beginning of a new era: The wide hadlebars for easy steering, decent brakes and these tyres to take stairs. The one and only important thing to come were index shifters.

I like the Suntour shifters! My ‘85 Stumpy came with Deerheads. Still cool, but the Suntour look nice and minimal!

You're crazy, everyone knows 90s MTBs are perfect not 80s, lol!, I do think the 90s innovations of v-brakes and threadless headsets were the last real innovation in the bike world, cool channel!

Any bike improvement to a non-historic bike is fine if it results in the bike being used more often.

The decade of the 80s was my coming of age in cycling. I worked in bike shops the US and in France and got in a lot of miles too. It was an exciting time for the industry. Each year brought innovations, but maintaining - and enhancing - quality also seemed to be a priority. It's a pleasure to hear from a younger cyclist who appreciates this era of cycling.

Sharing the road with cars is safe if the lanes are wide; then, it's no problem.

You even saved the friction shifters-my MAN!

One of the best bikes at the time. I bought one new for $400.

Words of wisdom about keeping them original!

A bike from a time when men were men and women were women. I'm still riding my rigid 1988 Mantis.

I recently got my 84?85? chrome Mongoose ATB back on the road. The saddle and tires were dry rotted and the rear derailleur was missing so I replaced them with new. I’ll replace the rear derailleur with an original one when I find it. BTW our bikes are just about a twins! only difference I see are the handle bar, stem, and wheels. My bike has the SR MTS-100 aluminum bull horns, MTS-100 steel bars, and Mongoose Pro Class wheels.

My 89 Diamondback Apex was 589.00 new. Full rigid, as they are known today. The Smoke Lilac paint was most impressive as was the complete Shimano Deore group set, including hubs with 26 x 1.95 Farmer John's were the tires spec'd from the factory, and I didn't change em. If they were good enough for Johnny T, they were good enough for me. No manufactured trails, no lift service, and most importantly no other mountain bikers. True single track in the Allegheny National Forest and long downhill bomb's on seldom used fire roads. We navigated by topo maps and never got lost. Those were the days.

I find myself having to change gears and mechs on old mountain bikes because often chainrings and cassettes are worn out, and it doesnt even have to be from 40 years ago. Also what people thought was good range back then can be limiting and discouraging, depending on use of course. I find pre 80's road bikes have a huge problem with gear range when living in a hilly environment such as I do. This all being said, changing/upgrading some old bikes is part of keeping them alive and being used. Jealous of the bull moose bars and keep up the videos.

No.

The front derailleur replacement would have been similar and compatible only . Getting an exact new one at a swap meet or collective , new - old - stock would be close to impossible . Even more so in Australia . Old bicycles for parting out is sometimes the best option .

And please, no fun allowed 🤨

I can't believe we used to ride these on long mt bike rides, and we liked it!

Don't tell me what to do. Those old mountain bikes were horribly uncomfortable to ride any amount of distance. I changed the parts on all five of mine so they would be more comfortable.

You opted to remove the spoke protector? But it was SunTour and so big and shiny!

you did it right !

I agree,stop overrestpring b8kes!

I loaded up on a few nice rigid steel mtb's a several years ago when the market was bottomed out. I got a Stumpjumper Comp with XT, Fisher Procaliber Suntour XC Pro, and a Trek 950 with Deore LX, all in excellent condition for around $200 each. They're phenomenal do it all machines. I overhauled all of them, replaced the rock hard brake pads, and tires, but otherwise kept them stock.

I got a 90s stumpjumper and a modern gravel bike at around the same time. A year and a half later i sold the gravel bike because i just enjoy riding the stumpjumper more. These bikes are wonderful

rebuilt almost my whole 80s falcon professional to be a single speed gravel bike and using this bike has made me realise how unneccacary most new bike tech is if youre on flat ground, who needs suspension when you can bend your elbows?

And please don't turn them into " gravel Bikes "

Sweet vid man. Your edits and still shots are killer. I'd love to see longer vids like this!

Cool bike, you did it justice, I’ve got 80s and 90s shoguns and gt mountain bikes in my retro stash and other than replacing parts that ore worn or fitting higher end groupsets from the same era I leave them be. I’ve only got one 1 by setup and that’s on my 2004 epic pro. I must be honest and admit I do have 4 piece bars on one of my gt bikes but I have had them on there since 1998 coz I wanted a cruiser with gears.

Beautiful.

My first mtb was a peugeot.

I like this retro style, but i will convert it to be road bike

The biggest disadvantages these bikes have is that with freewheel you cannot mount a cassete which really limits your gear ratio when it comes to the climbing gears. I find that 22 front 36 back is the minimum that i need to be able to climb everywhere with a normal 90 cadence. When doing a project like that I'd just buy used cassete wheel, but other than that these bikes are genius