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1984 Fisher Mt. Tam. I added a rack and new tires. Hunting for a new seat that doesn't look too modern. The seat it came with is terrible!
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I just found this thread so I'll post a couple of my old bikes that I still have. I used to race cross country and downhill in the 90's. I had an Intense M1 for downhill but sold that years ago and I had a Schwinn Straight 6 for awhile after that. Those were both great bikes.
I just finished restoring my 1990 Yeti Ultimate. I found some old original parts for the build to get it back to how I first rode it. This has been a very long restoration and the bike has quite the history. The owner of a shop I worked at in the Bay Area in NorCal originally owned it. It was stolen then recovered about a year later. I bought it from him and started racing it. Years later I started racing for Action-Tec and my dad started riding the Ultimate. In 2007 my dad passed away from a heart attack while riding this bike... About a year or two later I striped the bike down and had it powder coated. I slowly started collecting early 90's parts for it and started building it.
Parts list:
Yeti Ultimate frame.
Grafton Mag-Lite brakes.
Grafton cranks.
Phil Wood bottom bracket.
Answer A-Tac stem.
Answer Hyperlite bars.
Flite Titanium seat.
Original Manitou 1 fork.
Chris King hubs with Mavic 231 rims.
Chris King headset.
Ringle skewers
Shimano XT thumb shifters.
Shimano XT rear and Suntour front derailleur (I want to find an XT front)
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And this is my Action-Tec team bike from the mid 90's. There were only a dozen or so made for the team. Most of us built them with different parts depending on budget. If I remember right Curtlo made the aluminum frames. The Pro Shock is built by Action-Tec and Canondale copied the design later for their head tube shock. Action-Tec was mostly known for their titanium chainrings, cog sets and bottom brackets.
I sold it to a friend about 15 years ago and got it back from him about 4 years ago. He put the wider riser bars on it and changed out the Grafton Mag-lites for Avid V brakes. Thankfully he still had the Grafton's and I used those on my Yeti Ultimate restoration.
I mostly raced cross country on it but I raced the Mammoth Kamikaze downhill with a 60 tooth front chainring a couple times before getting the Intense M1 for downhill.
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That brings back some memories! Your Ultimate is Virtually a clone of mine. I purchased it in 1988-89 and it was frame #U212. I rode that bike all over hell and back. Yours even has the factory repair on the seat post clamp. I also owned and rode an ARC and an ARC Ti. Boy I miss those bikes!
"Telepathic handling"
No Offence Anastasio but if you can not see the waves (Little ones on that spot in Santa Cruz) on or go rock climbing to the indoor gym next door in your lunch break is not a "Original" is just another trek 930 (Great frame actually, true temper cromolly main triangle) with a unified wishbone made by a seven head consequential TIG welder in about 17 seconds (Diminish warpage, incredible technology)..View attachment 1319760 I recently Picked up this beauty for 30 bucks on Craigslist. Mostly original.
They are very good frames, the lugged frames where a little to heavy and "Death" but from 1994 to about 2002 Wow, that true temper tubing is no joke, double butted, thin wall, the whole thing s a serious machine, specially the 990, 10 years before you will need to buy a Ritchey to get that kind of quality ride...i still have the frame of my old trek 930 hanging from my garage ceiling. made in 'merica.
No offense taken. Thank you for the knowledge.No Offence Anastasio but if you can not see the waves (Little ones on that spot in Santa Cruz) on or go rock climbing to the indoor gym next door in your lunch break is not a "Original" is just another trek 930 (Great frame actually, true temper cromolly main triangle) with a unified wishbone made by a seven head consequential TIG welder in about 17 seconds (Diminish warpage, incredible technology)..
If you Where to wrap that frame in plastic bags and give rides to the cream of the crap of "VC" (vintage/classics world) I bet you more than half of them with place it amongs the best frames they have ever tried (truetemper OX III is no freaking joke)No offense taken. Thank you for the knowledge.
I must agree, it's pretty rigid and holds up my big Clydesdale ass on the trail. Thanks again patineto.I
If you Where to wrap that frame in plastic bags and give rides to the cream of the crap of "VC" (vintage/classics world) I bet you more than half of them with place it amongs the best frames they have ever tried (truetemper OX III is no freaking joke)
(personally like them better than the real OR lite's)
I must agree, it's pretty rigid and holds up my big Clydesdale ass on the trail. Thanks again patineto.