Originally Posted by
jeffpoulin
I like it.
Just needs a new paint job.
The picture doesn't even show the slight pink tinge the white paint has acquired over the years and it makes the blue look better too. And then there's the issue of the gaudy graphics. So, yeah.
I got a '94 Rockhopper for my daughter which was red with green lettering. She hated that, said it looked like it was decorated for Christmas. I did get that powder coated. It turned out pretty sweet, except hers still has mostly old components.
Originally Posted by
Sirrus Rider
86 the Biopace and put on round rings which will help indexing and a smooth spin.
I'm leaning that way, but I wanted to give the Biopace a fair test first. I'm still undecided. It feels pretty smooth, but I don't know how much of the smoothness is the bike and how much is the Biopace.
Originally Posted by
tjspiel
Plus this type of conversion is challenging and fun at the same time.
This is definitely true. In fact, I bought this bike a year ago mainly to tinker with it. First, I upgraded it newish 9-speed MTB components that I had in the parts bin, which was when I built the wheels (26" with 130mm rear spacing
). Then I moved the nice MTB components onto a '99 Muni Mula that I got last month, so I decided to go with drop bars for this.