Shops with history slc

[Meconium]

What are some of the shops that have lasted the tails of time? Just looking for a lbs that might still have some older stock (late 80s early 90s crap.

Softride stem or proflex
Pepperoni fork

[danadog]

I have in my box ole parts a Brand new flex stem! I think it is a 1" 1/8 but I would have to check!

[Meconium]

I have in my box ole parts a Brand new flex stem! I think it is a 1" 1/8 but I would have to check!

Cool, looking for a 1” though. The green trek 830 is my actual first mountain bike ever. Bought it new in 87?
I gave it to my sister to use it at college a while back and it got stolen. Years later the cops called up saying they had the bike, errr frame and mangled everything. At the time I was attending college and had access to the metal shops powder gun so I sandblasted the fucker and gave it a lime green face lift. Shortly after that my Funk developed a slight crack so I swapped the bastardized XTR, XT, Gripshift fiasco over to my first love. Anyways I’v been using this bike as my only ride and getting back into the mountain bike thing. I have a modern bike in storage but I’m so happy riding this thing around. Anyways ……. proflex is all it needs


If the Funk can be patched maybe the stem and a pepperoni fork should be used to build a lightweight 8 speed, yes just 8.

[jayfrizzo]

Hotness. Are those 4-finger brakes on there? I'm also not seeing any thumb shifters on 'er.

[truth]

Time has no tails.

[bagtagley]

Softride stem or proflex

I understand the interest in going retro, but is it worth risking your life? They called 'em Franken-stems for a reason.

[CantDog]

I've got a full Suntour XC gruppo I'll sell ya, came off an 87 stumpjumper that i made into a singlespeed a while ago. Everything has been sitting in a box for the last few years. Hardly been used.

Crank is shimano biopace!

[Meconium]

I understand the interest in going retro, but is it worth risking your life? They called 'em Franken-stems for a reason.

What reason is that? I thought the first generations had problems but they beefed em up?

[Shredgar]

Guthries has been around the longest, since before the turn of the last century. They claim to be the oldest bike shop W of the Mississippi.

Good luck w/the old frame.

[bagtagley]

What reason is that? I thought the first generations had problems but they beefed em up?

I was mostly being sarcastic, but my understanding of their danger was a matter of physics rather than failure. I don't know the specifics, but intuitively it would seem that moving downward independent of your head tube is not a good thing. If I'm traveling closer to my front axle (and the ground) I'd prefer to have the rest of the bike move with me.

I may be way off, but that was my understanding.

[freshies]

dude, you are old school - and i love it! but, seeing how you have all those nice fat skis in your quiver, you obviously decided fat was good, better, than some old 210 race tooth picks, etc. why not the same w/bikes? suspension is a wonderful thing - just looking at that rigid fork brings back bone jarring memories of my first MTB: an '89 Cannondale w/rigid fork....