lordsummit
Moderator
Recently I’ve been going out with my lad on my positively ancient mountain bike. It’s built around a Coyote Ultralite aluminium frame, and was pretty expensive in 1996! I think I paid about £600 then.
I don’t use it loads, but I do like a good canal tow path bash, and can see myself doing a little more of that, maybe once or twice a week. It is though a little tired. The fork has collapsed, Tony L very kindly gave me a Rockshox Judy fork, but I’ve no idea as to how to go about fitting it, and what would be needed to do it! Would I need new brakes? How much longer than the head tube do the top of the forks need to be? I can ,masure it later, but Im not sure there’s loads to play with.
Other issues are the middle derailleur is erratic. This is an old XT one. I squirted it with WD40, and now I have two out of three rings working, but not the highest ring.
Is it worth trying to sort out the issues, or do I need to save up for a second-hand replacement, or investigate the cycle to work scheme? Are there bits of my bike worth saving, or best to take whatever I can get for it, and start afresh? The world used to be full of cheap bikes, but now they seem to have all gone to ground. I’m a brassic musician as I’m sure most of you know! I’m really looking for the cheap solution. I’m open to different ideas, even if it may take a while to put into place.
A few pictures for context.
I don’t use it loads, but I do like a good canal tow path bash, and can see myself doing a little more of that, maybe once or twice a week. It is though a little tired. The fork has collapsed, Tony L very kindly gave me a Rockshox Judy fork, but I’ve no idea as to how to go about fitting it, and what would be needed to do it! Would I need new brakes? How much longer than the head tube do the top of the forks need to be? I can ,masure it later, but Im not sure there’s loads to play with.
Other issues are the middle derailleur is erratic. This is an old XT one. I squirted it with WD40, and now I have two out of three rings working, but not the highest ring.
Is it worth trying to sort out the issues, or do I need to save up for a second-hand replacement, or investigate the cycle to work scheme? Are there bits of my bike worth saving, or best to take whatever I can get for it, and start afresh? The world used to be full of cheap bikes, but now they seem to have all gone to ground. I’m a brassic musician as I’m sure most of you know! I’m really looking for the cheap solution. I’m open to different ideas, even if it may take a while to put into place.
A few pictures for context.