Barracuda - Totally Driven!

..not only the price came down, the entire post did o_O

he's sending me the seatpost on monday. thanks for the find there! I never know what to search for on craigslist.

so just picked up parts 1 and 2 today...xtr front and rear derailleurs. fd-m901 front and rd-m910 for the rear. the front der. was missing a couple of screws, but after a trip to the lbs, the mech there gave me the screws needed. woot! as for the rear, got a good deal on it, because the bottom pulle...

the guy at the lbs measured the seat tube and was inbetween 26.7 and 26.8. the frame was heated a wee bit, temp's 98 degrees outside, so messed with the size a little bit. the .8 fit snug, the .7 had some wiggle room in there. so if anyone has a old cuda or kooka seatpost that they don't want..... XD

dang, i'd be over that one, but i think i need the 26.4 or whatever it is. why did they make so many different size seatposts???

...so I shouldn't mention the one I picked up for 75 dollars?

here's a few other pics of stuff that i've halfway restored to put on the bike. also has a aheadset that came with, but looks pretty beat up and still on the crap shocks. thinking of going just the xt set and eventually an xtr set, prices are just waaaaay too insane for nos xtr stuff, or even slight...

...and after close examination, i might just have to sandblast the frame to check for hidden cracks in the frame. i noticed that there was slight bulging about 3/4 of the way down the downtube, and lots of cracks in the paint, i just want to make sure that there's NO cracks before i start dumping lu...

i found out the hard and stupid way that a green pad is NOT the way to take out scuffs. luckily it was on my cheapy frame (the ross one). tried a new way with the new frame, and found that those MAGIC ERASERS (the ones for household cleaning) is THE way to take out light/medium scuffs in the paint t...

I will be sure to keep everyone posted... I think it'll just take some time to source all the parts...I'm thinking of going old school xtr setup with old ringle bits and either the mavic rims that came with it or anodized ones if I can find a good deal on some. I was looking at the joystix cranks bu...