.: Posted August 20th, 2010 by Preston :.
All I can say about this one is wow…and that I’m also impressed with the number spelling mistakes in the listing. This one is certainly worth a look.
Via ebay auction description:
Up for bid 1998 Proflex Animal Frame Mountain Bike. This is the last year that Proflex existed independently. Great bike to ride or have as a display collectable. Have built this bike over several years and have approximately $2600 invested. Hurting for money. My loss can be your gain. This bike is in very good used condition. Only around 100-120 miles ride time on bike – on paved surfaces.
- Easten Carbon rear swing arm and Easten Carbon front forks with Noleen shocks (front and rear)
- Chris King headset with Shumano XT bottom bracket
- Kooka crankset with chainring 42 black, 32 blue, 22 black with red spider blue crankarms and blue rock ring
- Onza clipless pedals
- Shumano XT front derailer, ESP 9.0 Carbon component rear derailer
- Shumano XTR full titatinum 11/30 cog
- Spinergy MR rear wheel – blue ceramic rim with carbon blue & yellow spokes – carbon & alum hub
- Magura Raceline HS33 hydrolic rim brakes
- Titatinum Salsa skewers
- Snake water bottle cage
- Very hard to find blue Powerpost seat post with four seating positions
- Mavack front rim
.: Posted July 27th, 2010 by Preston :.
Very cool…
Ebay item description:
Vintage Team Yeti RockShox Judy SL NOS. This is 1 of 10 forks that were hand built by RockShox R&D for the Yeti mountain bike team in 1995. This fork was set aside after the build and never used or mounted. Custom powder coated in Yeti team colors. This is a one of a kind original.
All titanium hardware, 1-1/8 x 265mm aluminum steerer tube, 60mm travel.
Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Team-Yeti-RockShox-Judy-SL-NOS-/260641428993
.: Posted July 25th, 2010 by Preston :.
Picked these up on ebay last week – way to cool to pass up. Hard to find these never laced up AND still in the original box! 36 hole. Freewheel. 100/130mm. The original owner (and ebay seller) purchased these new in 1985 and they had been in his basement ever since.
You can read more on the history of Shimano MTB parts on MOMBAT.
.: Posted July 21st, 2010 by Preston :.
Last month I picked up both turquoise and purple 1″ Chris King headsets ebay – here is a photo of them.
.: Posted July 2nd, 2010 by Preston :.
I’ve always wanted one of these – this is the only Pre-2000 Rock Shox fork I haven’t owned.
Check it out on ebay:
You are bidding on a Rock Shox Judy DH Suspension fork Red Complete NIB. Comes complete with parts sealed in plastic. Manuals included. Item will be shipped immediately or ASAP upon receipt of payment from the winning bidder. Thanks for your interest.
.: Posted June 18th, 2010 by Preston :.
Looking for MTB rides in the Bay Area? Check out BayAreaRides.com.
My friend Steve has been on a ride with the guy who put this site together – its pretty impressive – definitely worth a look.
Via BayAreaRides FAQ:
“What’s all this then?”
I’m a late-start mountain biker who started biking in earnest only less than five years ago, when I was 38. I’ve been riding around the San Francisco Bay Area regularly since then. Typically, I try to ride somewhere new on as many rides as I can. I’m also a bit of an obsessive record-keeper and I always use a GPS on my rides due to being a geek. As a result of this, after about one ride per week on average over these years, I’ve ended up with first-hand knowledge of and the GPS track data for most of the places around the Bay Area where one can do mountain biking. I’ve just taken a rough count and, as I write this, the list adds up to about 80 different locations around the Bay Area (without counting different trails and routes in the same park as separate).
I had considered building a site like this a number of times before, to make this information available to all other riders out there, and now I’ve finally found the motivation to put it into action. My aim here is to help people in discovering and picking new places around the Bay Area where they might like to go mountain biking. There are plenty of other good websites out there about mountain biking in the Bay Area. Most of the amateur ones, while containing valuable first-hand information, have a limited selection of places listed or don’t give too many specific details of the logistics for each ride. Some commercial “trail databases” have a reasonable amount of ride specifics listed, but most are national rather than local, so the number of rides they contain in this specific area is not very high. Many books describe many more local rides in this immediate area with plenty of detail and description on each ride, but, of course they are usually unable to provide downloadable GPS tracks or clickable links to mapping websites for trailhead and parking information. And there are some sites where you do find many downloadable GPS tracks, but they are usually accompanied by no narrative about the ride.
For these reasons, I think this site may address a distinct need by being a place where you can find some verbal description and subjective opinion about each ride, coupled with all the details you could ever need for planning the specifics of doing the ride. I hope you find it useful!
http://bayarearides.com
.: Posted June 14th, 2010 by Preston :.
I ordered this frame new from Dekerf in early 2000 while working at a shop in Wisconsin. This is the bike I’ll always have. It has had probably about as many different builds on it as years I’ve had it – some of the older ones pretty horrendously funny (im looking at you spinergy rev xs).
More on Dekerf: http://dekerf.com/
.: Posted June 12th, 2010 by Preston :.
.: Posted May 6th, 2010 by Preston :.
Was browsing through vintage tires on ebay and saw this auction. With almost three days left they are already at $128.65.
Via the ebay auction listing:
These are an incredible find! NOS, never even mounted on a rim, Ritchey Megabite Z-Max tires. WCS folding bead. 26 x 2.1. These have been stored indoors and are not dried out like so many vintage tires you see. Great for any classic mtb.
—AUCTION END UPDATE—
Wow – Wound up going for $202.
.: Posted April 22nd, 2010 by Preston :.
Bob in the comments alerted me to this. Universal Cycles uncovered some Purple Chris King disc hubs in their basement. There are still six five sets available on their website – sold only in sets for $528. Get em while they’re hot!
