I just picked up a Trek 930 that fits my wife perfectly, and I got it for a song. Would this be the correct forum to document my work on it, transitioning it from a mountain bike to a rock solid tourer?

If you want you can post your adventures in this thread: https://www.bikeforums.net/touring/10...d-contest.html

Ps. without pictures it didn't happen

Oh, jump in on the mentioned thread.
We are going to have a ball. Especially, the more the merrier.

-Snuts-

If you guys don't mind I think I'll start a separate thread about her bike. I'll easily exceed the $350 parameters by the time I give her a new Brooks and a set of Tubus racks. I've got to finish painting my living room today and prepare for a trip to Texas tomorrow, so it'll be next week before I get a chance to post.

Funny, I just picked up a mid90s 930 for my wife, but itll just be cleaned and recabled then used to mess around on in the woods.

Looking forward to a conversion thread from you!

Brooks seats arent the end all and it may not be the right choice for your wife. There are many many good bike seats out there for women, Terry seats come to mind (I got one for my daughter some years back and for both her and my wife, it works very well). Brooks shouldnt be left out in the rain etc, so this may be factor that doesnt make it a good choice.

same with Tubus racks, depending on how much your wife ends up carrying on her bike, a good solidly made aluminum rack that is reasonably priced can and will work perfectly well for your wifes bike.

in other words, you could save yourself 100's of dollars on these items and still put perfectly good, functional equipment on her bike--and could put that money into other bits and bobs of either bike parts, or camping stuff or whatever.

this comes from someone who loves my Brooks seats, and now has some Tubus racks, but have toured and commuted for decades on mid priced, well made alu racks that have held up perfectly well after tens of thousands of kms of use.

I agree with djb, though it's totally up to you as to how you want to build the bike. Looking forward to it regardless.

I just replaced the old blackburns on my bike with heavier Filzer aluminium racks and am pretty happy with the initial results. Mainly they have pannier stays that act to keep the bags out of the spokes which the others didn't. 32 and 42CAD for the pair at MEC.

I also have a Brooks C17 that I like but found a little too hard on my last trip and have replaced it on this bike with a Serfas Rx. 60CAD in Calgary. I'll post pics a little later on.

Curious what type of 930 you got - the contemporary 700C adventure bike, the late 90s Taiwanese welded steel mtb, or the early 90s USA made lugged/brazed steel mtb.

All are awesome IMO.

Some pics of the Filzer racks.






One thing that had me stumped for a while was the small cylindrical tube with two small flanges on the end of the rear rack. The adverts and instructions said it was a fitting for a rear light system but I could not find any info on what type of light fit into such a tube. I was about to email MEC with the question when I realized that it was made to wrap a rear light around as one would a seat post. They basically put a seat post replica on the back of the rack with little tabs so the light wouldn't slide off - smart!