Post up what you pedal (3 Viewers)

[coleAK]

Old school Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra for me!
Settled on that after building up an old Colnago, an Allan Record Carbonio and a 1972 Mercian.
Used to be a hobby….build, ride for a season or two then sell.
The Merckx rode so well it became the permanent ride.

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Nice Spinergy wheels. I don’t think I’ve seen a set of those in ~30 years. Pretty awesome!

 

[EWheeler]

what do you ride? I’ve found for me the best set up is a super grippy front (when the front loses traction it is a bad day…) and faster rolling rear.

Also I can’t recommend specialized tires enough. They perform amazing and if you watch sales can get them for half price of most other major brands. I got four (two 29 and two- 27.5) front tires and four 27.5 rear tires new this past fall for $280 total. I have 3 of the 8 still in the box for next summer. On most of our bikes, we go through a front tire, every summer and a rear tire every one to two summers, we ride a lot.

My go to for the last 4 years on all the families bikes is specialized Butcher T9 front and specialized purgatory T5 or T7 rear. On everything but my daughter’s DH bike where she runs the butcher T9 front and eliminator T9 rear.

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Dry decomposed granite & hard pack soil are the local trails. Not rocky or rooty, no moisture. It rains so little here that if it does rain, I'll just wait & ride when its dry. That wasn't an option when I was living on the North Shore of Vancouver.

 

[coleAK]

Dry decomposed granite & hard pack soil are the local trails. Not rocky or rooty, no moisture. It rains so little here that if it does rain, I'll just wait & ride when its dry. That wasn't an option when I was living on the North Shore of Vancouver.

I miss the dry, grew up in Tahoe. Almost 20 years in Alaska now, wet is my reality.

 

[EscapeWagon62]

Nice Spinergy wheels. I don’t think I’ve seen a set of those in ~30 years. Pretty awesome!

Full transparency., every (and I mean every) bike forum warns against building anything with Spinergy or Allan Record Carbonio as the polymer/glue is likely cooked.
I decided to do both.
The Spinergys lasted 10 miles.
The Allan lasted 34 miles and fell apart like a house of cards underneath me.
It is mounted on a wall of shame in my basement but DANG it looked good for those 34 miles!

 

[jembourbe]

Dry decomposed granite & hard pack soil are the local trails. Not rocky or rooty, no moisture. It rains so little here that if it does rain, I'll just wait & ride when its dry. That wasn't an option when I was living on the North Shore of Vancouver.

 

[jembourbe]

Loose over hard pack is the most puckery for me. But dry like that, I prefer Thunder Burts (Schwalbe) or Maxxis Aspens or Icons. My xc bikes are wearing Ikons right now because I've been riding more varied terrain, and they have the most tread I can ride and still go fast while under pedal power. Ain't no gravity in my woods.

 

[CruiserTrash]

@RodrigzCrzr That Raleigh turned out so nice. The white cable housing was the way to go my friend.

@EscapeWagon62 I'm drooling over that Mercian. I built a road bike last spring and was looking at pretty much any of the small to medium sized British companies, and specifically for a Reynolds 531 frame. Mercian was on the list, but I ended up with a Bob Jackson. I just really like the Mercian font and their paint schemes. Some have really great lugs too.

 

[tsutaoka]

 

[RodrigzCrzr]

@RodrigzCrzr That Raleigh turned out so nice. The white cable housing was the way to go my friend.

@EscapeWagon62 I'm drooling over that Mercian. I built a road bike last spring and was looking at pretty much any of the small to medium sized British companies, and specifically for a Reynolds 531 frame. Mercian was on the list, but I ended up with a Bob Jackson. I just really like the Mercian font and their paint schemes. Some have really great lugs too.

It’s a Fuji nothing special. It was just a quick project to bring it back to life. But Thank you!
The owner of property where it came from is buying it back. Just what I put into it.