Barracuda - Totally Driven!

A little bit more user friendly handlebar, and a new friend

Your hearing is damaged vpc66. That's a locust.

Well, I did it! But the spring that I used was a little bit short, so I had to put some aluminum spacers and an elastomer in the bottom. I packed the other leg with elastomers and still have 4 pieces left for future maintenence. I took my bike for a short spin and it handles pretty well, hopefully i...

You guys are sick! Now i'm affraid to use phil grease.

Neo_pop_71, I will try to do that upgrade since i do have a leftover spring from an old cheap fork. Hopefully it's going to work. Yeah, when I cleaned the Manitou, I noticed that the bottom elastomers were melted, firs I didn't know that those were actually elastomers, thought that is grease. Beside...

Hey vpc66, what did you do with that marzo? I'm asking, because i I found an cx60 for sale(needs some tune up), for about 15 bucks. Are they reliable? Thinking about swaping it with my Manitou 3, until I buy a new pack of elastomers.

I just bouth a frameset(Mbk), with the Shimano Dx line, for the same reason...part it out and sell it. I'm going to put a couple of hours of work into that(clean/grease the parts) and try to sell them.

http://www.mountainbike.nl/forum/viewto ... ?p=1469507
It looks like yours. 1995 Marzocchi XCR.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... 2&t=254833
Different year and colour.

Honestly that's one of the main reasons i like old bikes, you have to sweat a little to make it better, always improving, upgrading, finding the goodies for it. It takes involvment, passion.

Here it is in it's actual shape, with the blemishes, major scratches. I changed that cable routing improv, instead of putting back the cantilevers. The xt v-brakes have more stopping power than the lx cantilevers that were on the bike. Plus it came with some cheap, non working 3x8 combo shifter/leve...