thanks - it's a good 'un.

light and fast but still real sturdy. It was a better fireroad and singletrack bike in its day (decent climber and so-so on descents). I do have some size issues with it - It's a 15.5" frame C-T, and the top tube is about 22.5", which is at least an inch long for me, and I have not been able to find a good stem replacement (I think that's a 114 on there - I need like a 60mm!). 12 years ago I loved the long low cockpit, especially out of the saddle and so on. Nowadays I am older and stiffer and for long seated spinning it's a bit too stretched out for me. Prolly has more to do with limited hip flexion than my arms being too short....

I did find an upright short stem 1 1/8" threaded but it doesn't have those charming early 90s front brake pulleys!! Hence I had to fashion a brake boss out of a headset guide and two well - tightened radiator hose clamps!!

That was supremely ugly (although with some tweaking the brakes worked surprisingly well!) I really love this bike (bought it new, was my first really 'decent' bike) so eventually I may just add a whole new front end (shocks - nothing too crazy - threadless head set and V-brakes). This will circumnavigate the whole brake boss issue, give me a better selection of stem lengths and prolly give my old bones a break on bad roads!! Though I really prefer the rigid forks.