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Originally Posted by airwrench
Is that a Mt. Cycle San Andreas? Haven't seen one in years! Cool - what's the story behind it?
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yeah- San Andreas. I built it up a long time ago for long distance mtb races. When they came out I think the travel was about 2-3 inches. Converted the rear shock to about 6 inches, cut the midsection of the frame up to make it fit, put on a Marzocchi bomber/dropoff and dropped the crown on the stanchions to keep the geometry rideable at about 5 inches travel, put XO SRAM shifters on, Campy record 102mm bottom bracket for narrow road bike q factor, Hyperlight bars which were properly trimmed to fit between tight trees (unlike today's stylish big wide bars which don't make a bit of sense to me), Flite saddle (light), Alien seatpost (lightest available but a b@#$ to set up), mavix crossmax ceramic clincher rims, michelin wildgripper comp s light tires. Eggbeater triple ti. All lightweight gear to keep you fast, but the all mountain travel to keep you comfy on 10 hour rides. I revalved the dampers to have rebound damping only, no compression rebound. The thing rode like a cadillac. All the waterbottles/tools on to keep the weight low on the frame so no need to mess with camelback weight on your back (they always got to hot/ heavy on my back over long rides imho). In the big/middle rings the thing had no bobbing and was fast as hell. Always a riot because it looks like a ridiculous downhill bike but ran like a hardtail x-country, but was really an all mountain type rig before that term even existed. People would laugh but it always worked great and led to some crazy enduro XXC wins. When you get on it, it settles/sags down just like when you jump on a kx250 or cr250 type dirtbike. I used to mount slicks on it and show up to local group road rides and would end up pulling roadies
I pulled it out of the garage today after 2 years of non mtb riding and as ridiculous as it looks, still love it!!!
P.S.- when rear shock fully compressed the rear wheel lightly buzzes the rear water bottle!