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This is the latest Alex bike loaner for when I come back to work on the west side. It's way different than the normal loaner. Past loaners included a Quickbeam, an 83 Trek 520, a P/R, an 83 Trek 620, the original RBT urban bike, the cycle truck, the Ivy Cycles, and others I'm forgetting.
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Riding all these great bikes over the years has really impacted my bike education. In fact, I ended up building versions of most of these bikes at one time or another.
This is a Rocky Mountain frame that Alex just recently fitted with shocks. He thinks the frame is a 95 or a 96 (Glen? what say you: the distinguishing characteristic that Alex figured you would recognize is how the chain and seat bridges were fitted to the stays, which was wedged in and tacked, instead of brazed).
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It's got a Rohloff, Mary bars, and freaky Cane Creek weirdo v-brakes.
I couldn't get much of a feel for it on the 1/4 mile of trail that I rode today, but I think it would be fun to bomb down some hills on.
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Those brakes are great! Much nicer looking than "normal" v-brakes.
- Ventura
1998-2001 is what I think it is. The seller said 2000ish.
Those brakes make my head hurt.
The brakes are Cane Creek (used to be Diacompe) Direct Curve V-brakes.
I used them because you can swap all of the hardware and let the cable enter from the right side instead of the left side. Few V-brakes give you that flexibility, but it made the cable routing on this bike a lot easier.
pulling the vbrake off and swapping the hardware seems more difficult then putting on different cable stops.
just sayin...
I think those bridges had some brass rings placed inside,got forced into place by some gigantic hydralic arm and then were run through an auto-braze multi torch thing. Sometimes they got tacked with a mig-welder while the hydralic arm held them in place. This all took place in Taiwan, occaisionally we would have to rebrazed a little when the bare frames were qc'ed in Canada. I think I have pictures of all this.
John, if you're looking for a downhill to bomb and haven't visited the I-5 Colonnade, do so at once! Alex has my email and phone number, I'd be happy to join you.
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