Originally Posted by
safariofthemind
VERY nice job Sixty Fiver.
From your postings you obviously have a great deal of mechanical knowledge. Do tell, were the rack and fenders a challenge? Any other gotchas? Are the wheels 36H or 32H?
Though there is no shortage of old MTB's in the RTP (Research Triangle Park, ie, Raleigh-Durham, NC) area, we have a dearth of places selling older parts. Guess the shops have to push all the new stuff to stay in business, but it sure would be nice to get this 7/8 speed into more common use since the parts are so affordable.
Thanks... I do run my own small and soon to be expanded shop and also work with a local and well established frame builder as an apprentice and serve as the shop's mechanic and wheel builder.
The cascade is a nice frame and aside from missing a third water bottle mount is an ideal touring bike... the brake bridge and chain stay bridge are drilled and tapped to make fender mounting just that much better and mounting the racks was pretty straight forward. The front rack is actually two racks which I will eventually replace with one of these.
We design and build a lot of custom racks and joke that we sell a bike with every set of racks as these are something the shop is well known for... as we build touring bikes and tandems most come equipped with custom and often integrated racks.