cta retro MTB

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This bike was built for my 15yr old nephew who wanted to start cross-country MTB racing. Being the mean uncle that I am, I told him the only bike he would get from me is one that we could put together from scavenged parts. So we found this ancient MTB frame in a hard rubbish clean-up and after he stripped and prepped the frame, I painted it jet black. We then rebuilt it using parts that were lying around the workshop of diverse quality and orgin. So the bike has a no-name stem, headset, handle-bars, BB, and more. Believe it or not we found a set of black anodised Phil Wood hubs lying around(isn't he lucky his uncle is the Australian distributor for Phil Wood!) along with an assortment of Velocity Deep-V MTB rims. All in all we come up with a cruisy, great handling bike.

Unfortunately, as I expected the racing did not last long, but he must have put a couple of thousand klms on this bike. He literally rode this bike to death, proving that a full rigid MTB can conquer all. One day I received the phone call I was expecting, he had jumped one jump too high and too hard and the fork had turned the bike into a chopper.

The bike was brought back to the workshop for salvage and this time will be re-incarnated into a Single Speed MTB with a front suspension fork.

So the bike accomplished its purpose, there is another person with a life-long love for the two wheeled, human powered machine we call a bicycle.