Recent content by JonSus

Thanks for all the replies, Good info. I remember when I was first building the frame up and picked the new Dia-Compe/Cane Creek headset. I usually always used Chris King headsets. That choice might have saved me from a hard crash... Back in the 90s I faced and chased the head tube with a...

Hmm. I might have to start sanding down the headset cups to feel at ease. I remember installing a 1 inch King in a carbon frame that felt very tight going in. This frame was an original Manitou hardtail built with Easton 7005 tubing. The one I'm in the air on in my avatar photo so it did have...

Has anyone noticed old 7005 Aluminum frames developing cracks on the head tubes? I pressed some Chris King cups into a high quality vintage frame from 1993 a few years ago and just noticed the head tube now has a crack down the side. The frame has just been hanging on the wall since and the...

I got my Bontrager canti posts sent to me in the US. They threaded right in very smoothly. Great purchase, fast and easy. This frame made me sad every time I looked at it with missing brake posts. Now it has me excited to build it up. Thanks Tom!

and here I thought this site would be the one safe place where "E" still stood for elevated... 🙃

The early answer forks came with an L wrench.

That sounds like what I would expect. Answer was making those in 92 for the 93 season but Answer wasn't making the hard tails yet. The last of the 7005 hard tails made in Colorado were built over the winter between 92 and 93 and partially used to work out the design for the new answer frames...

1993 Original Colorado Made Manitou. Answer Manitou 2 fork, M-900 shifters and derailleurs, Nuke Proof Ti hubs, Araya M395 rims, Grafton cranks and brakes, Cook Bros. BB, supplied with the frame. flite seat, Hyperlite bars control tech stem. ati newtron grips. onza bar ends. This frame had a...

Early 92 is probably correct but the HT frames were still made in Colorado into 93. Answer was probably building 93 FS frames in 92 but the HT came later. Some of the last HT frames had 135 rear ends and 78mm bb shells like the answer bikes. That M-900 front derailleur was first available to the...

This was my first new mountain bike, even the same color and size. Bought it on closeout from some ad in the pages of Mountain Bike Action for $550. Switched out the fork to a Tange Switchblade, put Cook Bros cranks on it, got an sr "the pipe" stem, an onza rigormortis seatpost and a porcupine...

I built this up around 2010. I was trying to give it a retro look with the thumbshifters. The frame is a little bit older than the parts.

Similar look to Sampson MTB cranks.

What two pivots? I have a front triangle I could measure if you haven't figured it out yet.

I'd like to buy a vowel...

here's some pics.