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So many questions… Bike is finished but it’s like night and day riding this little guy compared to my 29” Habit and Trail SE. 1. The...

I spent Friday through Sunday at the 40th anniversary reunion of my car's Indy 500 win. Missed the flyover but it's always impressive...

For Suntour Accushift I used this bulletin for my 88 Black Lightning. It worked.

Update: Over the past year, lots of changes, not the least of which was retirement. After a year of different paint trials, I settled on...

Neat color. It sold. Did you buy it?

Neat color.

The shifters arrived today and are really nice but will need a bit of work to them to shift better - no biggie. They are installed along...

I have wondered about that. I was going to run them because they were on the bike and y'all know my feelings about the gripshift vibe...

I don't have any Suntour parts, but I saved it for the "just in case" I might someday need to reference it.

I don’t know if it will help for your vintage of shifters. But I have a pdf bulletin for Suntour and it worked for the series on my 88...

Did a little work on the bike yesterday - swapped the Blackburn MTN rack from the SM500 over to the SM1000/. The Ergon GP3 grips and KMC...

Removed the Suntour crank and original BB over the weekend. Today I installed a VO BB followed by a silver New Albion 165mm crank with...

A bit more lunchtime cleaning! First step was remove the Suntour BB and clean up related areas. It's worth noting the entire bike...

Did some work over lunch today. Worked the frame with Mothers Aluminum and mag wheel polish followed by Mothers Cleaner Paste wax. Bike...