I just bought a totally refurbished trek 950 at garage sale. Still has original uncomfortable setup. Going to make a poor man’s Rivendell out of it. Upright riding at its best.

i use a butterfly bar on a kinekt spring stem for long distance riding - many hand positions...

I put Velo Orange Crazy bars on my commuter and they are so fantastic. Love the horns, and the sweep is super comfy for a casual ride. Multiple hand positions is always gonna be a must-have for my commuters moving forward

Jeff Jones would disagree. Strange that you put "bull moose" bars in its own category. It's very niche. Was the last group "sweet" or "sweep"? I dont understand why that's a category by itself.

I’m not gay, I’m an alt-bar 😂

Beautiful bars! I've never seen bullmoose style bars with the curved parts like that but they're awesome.

I ride a surly moloko bar on my full rigid fat bike all winter, great for single track on the flats and climbs, a little challenging on the steeps, but you can make it work if you really want to. I don't find it more or less comfortable than my regular riser bars, but fat biking is a little slower and the rides aren't as long as my regular MTN bike rides

Bikes are easy to fix or rebuild, is way cheaper than what he bought....I completely rebuilt mine for about $230 in parts/tires...its like new

Every bicycle ride is a mini-holiday. 🚵‍♂️

I really like your attitude, a bicycle is a great invention and it doesn't need to be expensive to be efficient and reliable, put your energy into something meaningful and sustainable and it will improve you and the environment, and maybe have fun along the way

I love that you have mudguards! I mean, I do think any bike looks cooler without but hey, wet roads! Say no more. 😅 A really beautiful bike! 👍

‘Gravel bike’…they’re nonsense, the old..’cross bike’…covers those requirements, they’re drumming up business and making more money out of the gullible public

You must ride in a fairly flattish area if you can climb all your gradients on 3 gears!!!!!!

Get on CL or marketplace and Gor $200..you're riding high

Even with car I'd rather be biking. My commutes to work were very much the same. All kinds of weather, and nuance that is missed while driving.

Nice bike. I use a pedal assist eBike for my commutes as have more hills 😊

Priority does indeed make pretty darn good bikes. 👍

Priority should use this in their advertising. They do make some of the best real-world bikes around. I have my eye on their Contiuum Onyx, (largely because I'm old and tired of nursing my '90s Trek Frankenbike through each season.)

What priority model is it?

I feel the same way!

If only 3 gears get you up any hill in your area, I'm kinda jealous. Nice ride, man!

Man, this guys is a good public speaker! 🚴‍♂️

Hi bud. Those handlebars look comfy

I never run Gripshifts with the short gripshift grips, this gives me more room for my hands, no shifts unless I want a shift.

Great video Sully. This deserves more views. I smashed the like button!!!!

When I see all the videos online encouraging people to convert their old mountain bikes into gravel bikes I cringe. These bikes are getting more scarce all the time and when they are gone there will be no more. I have a cache of old bikes that I keep in rotation with my modern bikes. They are still rideable and using them can actually make us better riders.

I still ride 84 Tom Ritchey Competition with modern parts.

Sully would look great in lycra cycling clothing like the roadies . I wear them when I ride .

Sully , you are a really cool guy and we love you . I have a large variety of new old stock SRAM twist shifters from MR-X 170 through to the ROCKET series . I don't mind the higher end versions .

A Shimano FD - M 310 front derailleur would have worked , if decade specific ones were unavailable or of too poor a condition . Sully may have picked up old bicycles with some damage but with a few reusable components on them to install on this aqua green mtb .

I love my purple Pugsley!

Great video thanks ❤

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.

Made it to 1:04

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 🤙

Click bait ass title

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.