canabalising in the shed

[retrowagon]

went out on me mountain bike this savo and hated the seating position so put it in the shed,took off the straight handlebars and stem, had a look round the shed and the bike shed,stole my grifter xl stem and found my renthal (i think thats what they are called) motor bike handlebars
stole some cables and a gear lever off me other bike. and after 2 hours or
so i now have a, what feels like a big frame grifter.
the funiest bit is it feels so right when you ride it.
so tommorrow its time to fit my daughters bike seat that goes on the back,then off for a test ride which after ill take some picks for on here.

[admin]

look forward to seeing that

[mushroom]

sounds interesting
I'm about to cannablise a knock on the door cruiser thing my daughter grew out of and fit the wildcat handlebars and seat. Then matt blacking it
keeping the purple tyres on though

[retrowagon]

been out on it again today had both kids on it and it rode great
i do feel sorry for the bike though as with us all on it it must be touching 30 stone on it
them poor tyres

[alecw35]

big bars on MTBs are good.

Ive recently built a Mark 1 Raleigh Mustang clone. Its got wide bars in a SR BMX stem. So its a shortish reach to the bars. feels relaxing to ride.

I got a set of Renthall bars from the boot sale for £1. I was going to fit them on my old Raleigh cruiser. But some one gave me an 80s Ridgeback. So Ive got the wheels, cranks and big bars of that on the Raleigh just now