For this week’s Readers’ Rides, Teddy shares with us his shreddy basket bike built upon a 1992 Litespeed “Mountain” chassis…
I wanted to send my bike in for Readers’ Rides now that it’s finally at a point that I am comfortable calling done.
The frame is from ‘92, but the serial number is in Litespeed’s database as a 56cm Ultimate. However, if you reference catalogs (the ’92 specific catalog is lost to time as far as I can tell), it’s definitely a mountain frame.
Sometime during this frame’s life, the non-drive side rear canti stud sheared off, and the stud itself is welded on, not threaded. So the best solution was obviously to build it up with a roller brake hub. The Grafton Maglite brake (also released in 92) was missing all of the hardware, so John Grafton offered to rebuild it for me.
I painted the stem and post using Duracoat firearm finish in Belgian Frog Camo.
Build Spec:
- Frame: Litespeed Titanium
- Fork/Headset: Tange Unicrown/WTB Grease Guard
- Crankset/Bottom Bracket: Deore XT/Shimano MT800
- Pedals: Pedaling Innovations Catalyst
- Drivetrain/Cog/Chainring/Chain: Renthal 34t SunRace M98 11-36t 9 Speed/KMC X10 Ti-Nitride
- Derailleurs/Shifters: Deore XT 8speed/SunRace M96 9 speed Shifter
- Handlebars/Stem: Velo Orange Klunker/custom painted Thomson
- Saddle/Seatpost: Liv upright test saddle covered with 1680d ballistic nylon/custom painted Orgin8 Profit
Brakes: Grafton MagLite front/Shimano BR-IM80 Rear/Orgin8 Maxilever - Front Wheel/Hub/Tire: Sun Ringle Rhyno Lite/Sapim Leader/Shimano RS400/Schwalbe Billy Bonkers 26×2.1
- Rear Wheel/Hub/Tire: Sun Ringle Rhyno Lite/Sapim Leader/Shimano FH-IM70/Schwalbe Billy Bonkers 26×2.1
- Accessories: PDW Neko bottle cage/3D Printed PETG 2 Bolt Cage/Dirty Defgrip grips/Grafton Fat Finger Straddle Hanger/Origin8 Rush Messenger front rack/Half height milk crate/RockBros Spurcycle copy
Check out more at Teddy’s Pedalroom!
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