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A miracle happened and I've found an SL-CT50 shifter for 5 quids worth of HUF including shipping. Perfectly working, and isn't that worn at all - this thing is 23 years old. Installed it today, shifts way better than the Tourney. Happy time!

Next step is to get a handlebar grip that fits nicely and feels comfy.

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rad!

out of curiosity, what was the price? just to compare it to prices in my country

Beautiful!

one of my forum favourites for sure

would rep haha

Subbed, looking forward to this.

Ahaha what the hell? Not only that it's crashed but wtf is with that real derailleur?

I like the ugliness because it's less appealing to the thieves haha. Yeah I'll probably stick to this one for a good while as this year is unfortunately not about bike projects.

Commuter is done for now.

And done for now. I'm on the hunt for some proper shifters, as this Tourney is horribly ugly, and it doesn't shift as well as the original gripshifts. Got an LX crankset for a fair price in a fair condition. Also changed the pedals.

These 700x47C tyres are amazing, I can barely feel the bumps on the road that shook the hell out of me before on 23/25C.

Will take some better photos if I'll have some free time on my hands.

The Rockhopper is a solid 10/10. Nice stable!

Proper pics when the sun finally decides to shine.
Hideous kickstand will go, and a better looking shifter will come (I can't stand gripshifts).

so rad!

If you can do a proper nice job then yes, it can be worthy. But imo only if you don't already have a proper forged horizontal dropout.

Lil' story here if anyone's interested:
There was an ex track racer in Hungary called Miklós Tarapcsák (better known as Pajti Bá), who started building frames after he stopped racing competitively. He has made many frames - road, tt, track, even some tandems and stuff. When this whole fixed gear thing got hyped up he started to do a lot of these track end conversions from the late nineties til he died in 2014. And he did this for dirt cheap actually.
One of my friends is riding a Bottecchia frame that's dropouts were converted to track ends by Pajti Bá - it looks like a factory job for real and it is true in all directions, so the wheel sits perfectly straight in the frame.

Meh, sorry for my rusty English, I really need to polish my grammar...

Amazing read, thank you for this!

fix your saddle angle mate

damn, that's a shame...

just wow