Would would it take to put you on this beautiful blue 85 st400?
he still exists. he’s doing fine as far as i can tell. i did send this to him- got no response. another friend at CSG/Dorel is pretty positive he knows the guy who wrote this. they definitely had some fun with it.
Yeah the SR900 in red has a special place in my heart because I really wanted it. Even at the point where I was big enough for an adult bike and the original SR900 was long gone, it was still to expensive even used. Instead I got a gas pipe Raleigh Olympian which wasn’t nearly as cool.
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I mostly love that and it will be great with a better bar setup and some colour
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I’m not sure what model it is but posted for possible sr900 refin
That’s a pretty cool bike as is bot with drops
Black Lightning?
@Orloved wildin in the crime aisle
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ok please enjoy my extremely cursed tentative budget document that involves an all-hydro/all-magura front/rear disc/rim mullet @Crustradamus and I sketched out the other night:
No matter what the bike needs:
Pedals: $52
Cranks: $50
Chainring: $80
Cables: $35
Headset: $60
Tires: $150
That’s $430
Marzocchi rebuild is about $40-$140
Carbon fork is another $180
That puts it to $650
For 26 mechanical brake it needs
Rear wheel: $150
Cassette: $30
Chain: $0 (have one)
That’s $180, or about $830
For 650b rim brake it needs:
Cliffhangers: $250
Motolites: $320
Cassette: $60
Chain: $20
$570, or about $1,220
For 26 hydro brake
Wheelset, assuming this is not a scam: $300
Rear brake: $100
Front brake: $70
That’s $470, or about $1120
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please edit that post to remove the question and paste the link
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definitely do the cabron xc fork and 584 setup for access to current tire tech
I am lobbying for 26" rear and 27.5 front, hopefully on the bomber. I guess 27.5 might not fit the bomber though?
will 584 not fit the frame either? I don’t know that a mullet is worth it but wet dicks, current rims and tires, and possibly a current bar/stem setup would be. unless you’re going for the mullet as an attempt to slacken the geo
a quick eyeball and 27.5 does seem to fit the bomber, or at least this 650bx48 does
it cleared 650bx48 on the rear and the brakes juuuust about contacted the rim, too! I just don’t know how big a tire it would take
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Is the elastomer(?) softail thing any good? I don’t see that in projected costs.
edit: Oh wait, it’s a coil?!
the YBB has an elastomer tucked up into the top part by the seat tube that Moots claims is not serviceable, and I assume the same for the Litespeed. The coil is like $5 from an industrial supply though, should I ever want to replace it or swap it for a softer or harder one
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27.5 for modern and as large a tire as possible on front along with all of that other stuff. @Dickason_Daniel Bomber is a coil 
see if you can get your framebuilder to add a rear disc mount and send it
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