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Old 12-23-13 | 10:04 AM
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From: St Peters, Missouri

Bikes: Catrike 559 I own some others but they don't get ridden very much.

I'm resurrecting my old Porsche mountain bike. When finished it will have period appropriate upper end, but not matching OEM, components.

I have a frame builder friend who has ridden the bike. He calls it "really fun to ride but heavy". It's the most precise steering mountain bike that I've ever ridden due, I assume, to the monster fork. The inner telescoping tubes on the fork are 35 mm diameter. You have to ride this one on a technical trail to appreciate how sloppy most mountain bikes steer.

I just weighed it. My fish scale says 27 pounds. That's not too bad.
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