I would like your thoughts on my Gary Fisher beater
02-07-13, 03:50 AM
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I would like your thoughts on my Gary Fisher beater
Hi guys just finished this build a week ago and thought I would see what you think. It is a bit of a mis match at the moment as I built it to see what it rides like, and it rides very nicely indeed. A full rebuild and full Black LX groupie will go on soon. Anyway here it is.
02-07-13, 04:53 AM
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I'm sensing a mad max aesthetic, but I love old GFs because they are bomb proof!
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The frame looks very similar to my Giant Iguana. What's the deal with the seatpost? Looks positively scabrous.
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Are you going to put tires on it or just ride around on the tubes? 
It looks good for a beater.
I was never a huge MTBer but I really miss my '90 HK2, it was pretty nice bike. The owner where I was working offered me a free Cdale w/ Campi Olympus for free but I had to sell my Fisher. I would have rather put the CampI on the Fisher but that was a NO NO since we were dropping Fisher and becoming some kind of platinum Cdale dealer.
It looks good for a beater.
I was never a huge MTBer but I really miss my '90 HK2, it was pretty nice bike. The owner where I was working offered me a free Cdale w/ Campi Olympus for free but I had to sell my Fisher. I would have rather put the CampI on the Fisher but that was a NO NO since we were dropping Fisher and becoming some kind of platinum Cdale dealer.
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other than the saddle angle, it looks like a perfectly fine runabout! I heard from a guy I met from Auckland that local pick-up driving hoodlums aren't too friendly to bicycles though, so I hope that will change for the better there.
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Thanks for the comments guys, it was one of those builds that just feels right from the onset. I will go ahead and fix the original fork and get that and the frame painted/powdercoated and rebuild(I was thinking that toady riding home from work) The Marlin will be with me for a while to come. I have some Schwalbe Marathon plus 1.5's to put on and I would like to do stuff like replace seat post and maybe even get A black Brooks B-17 for it too.
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Casseroles are delicious and satisfying. Uses all the leftovers. Love me a frankenbike. Good problem-solving skill builder too. Looks great.
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Looking awesome! I'd be tempted to throw on the black B-17 and call it done, warts and all. I think the seatpost is bada**!
02-09-13, 02:23 AM
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Thank you guys for the positive comments I will try a brown B17 narrow that I have tomorrow and see how it looks.
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I like it, its good enough till you can or whenever you want to really do something with it.I dont really see anything wrong with the seatpost either.
02-09-13, 05:04 AM
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That seat post has had a hard life on my old Marin Eldridge Grade. A stuck as heck B/B has that frame hanging in the shed awaiting an engineers blow torch, along with a Muirwoods.
I will take some pics tomorrow of the bits I will change.
I will take some pics tomorrow of the bits I will change.
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Hi Guys made a few "changes" today with a seat and tyres off other bikes and I would like to know what you guys think?
I have borrowed the seat and post from my Claude Butler Majestic and the wheels came off my Extreme Chaos (one of my favorite bikes) just to see what it would look like.
The wheels I have on the Fisher normally are LX hubbed 32 hole Mavic's, I am a hefty chap so I might run these tyres which are26 x 1.95 over the 26 x 1.50's I was going to run on those rims to help with longevity between wheels trues.
I like the look and have lately been wondering about re doing the gold? It really popped when it came out.
I have borrowed the seat and post from my Claude Butler Majestic and the wheels came off my Extreme Chaos (one of my favorite bikes) just to see what it would look like.
The wheels I have on the Fisher normally are LX hubbed 32 hole Mavic's, I am a hefty chap so I might run these tyres which are26 x 1.95 over the 26 x 1.50's I was going to run on those rims to help with longevity between wheels trues.
I like the look and have lately been wondering about re doing the gold? It really popped when it came out.
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