New Bike! (sorta)

Side view
Originally uploaded by jimgskoop.

I finally finished building up the 1985 Stumpjumper Sport that I traded a cut-out BB shell for. I saw a posting on SF Craigslist from a guy looking for trashed bikes to cut up -- turns out he needed a BB shell to use as a bearing assembly for a homemade wood lathe he was building. I just happened to have a junker bike in the basement (donated some frame tubes for the limobike) so I was happy to help him out. He gave me this frame in return, saying it wasn't something he could bear to cut up for parts, but that he'd never use it, either. I'd wanted a largish, early-model MTB frame to build up with m-bars into an all-rounder for some time, so it was a perfect trade. The bike's built up with a Terry saddle and platform pedals for my wife to ride...hopefully. Here's a similar bike at the First Flight Bicycles MTB museum website.