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Looks like a hell of an opportunity for artists. Share the result once finished, please.

Lovely.

That's truly a shame. I binned the 92 (red) frameset after I ripped the seat tube (in an attempt to wrench out the stuck seatpost...).

Nice find!

+1 for red Coppi.

That clamp is sooooo ugly...

I had these rims back in the nineties. It were the poor men's Shamals. 😁

It will look good anyway. Can't go wrong with a frame like this.

You wanted ahead to put 31.8 bars? If only for ahead, try chromed ahead. I have a nice steel eclypse mountainbike stem but I assume these exist in -17 road version. Need 25,x bars tho.

Ahead is difficult as this bike has small diameter tubes. But as you want ahead, go for the 2nd gen Ritchey Classic. Or Thomson. I had a silver Eclypse on it and it looked superb.

For this

Ooooo, I have to unsubscribe me from this thread. 😉

Silver, @anidel. Lots of silver for this bike

No need to explain why we called this period "the neon nineties", I guess...

For this build, I didn't have the ambition of going catalog spec. First I choose to build it with an 8 speed XT (a groupset I had from a 1991 Panasonic bike) but when completely unexpected a 1992 Cro Mega DX popped up, I decided to buy it and mount the parts on my 1991 frameset. For a better fit (and for aesthetical reasons) I mounted a Syncros stem in stead of the (rusty) one from Alpinestars.

Specs: ALpinestars Cro Mega DX frameset, DX groupset (seatpost and shifters = XT), Mavic 232 rims on DX hubs, DX pedals, Zoom 155 bars, Syncros Cattleprod stem, OnZa bar ends, Selle Bassano saddle. Apart from the re-issue Panaracer Smoke tyres, all parts from between 1991 and 1993.

And the ECS (Elevated Chain Stays) make this bike climb like a mountain goat and pretty nervous on the flat. One of my favourite rides.

apart from the rims, it's perfect.

Hmmm, Joe Jackson no longer happy with his singer-songwriter career? 🤔😉

Thanks!

Missed pair of these to complete my Alpinestars Cro Mega.

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It was in Mountainbike Action I first saw the Alpinestars bikes. Elevated chainstays were pretty common back then but for one or other reason, only Alpinestars could float my boat. When a couple of years ago a Cro Mega DX frameset popped up on Retrobike, I couldn't resist. Today the capstone for this build arrived.

Next bike. As already said, mountainbiking was rather uncommon here in Belgium, 30 years ago. As there was no internet available, our resources were limited to written press. And here in Belgium that meant: pretty nothing worth buying. My friends' dad was an astrophysician who worked for ESA and back then, he had to travel to the states (NASA) on a regular basis. He became our courier and provided us with magazines we only new from stories in local press. We were 18, our classmates stared at Pamela Anderson in Playboy, my friend and I went crazy flipping through Mountain bike Action.

Not too wobly?

More info on where this can be ordered, please? Thanks!

Fantastic! Great bike too...

Not only their BMX like bikes. It's very hard to find a Sunn from the higher end line (Revolt, Exact,...). I can't believe there's that little left of them.

Ritchey Logics

I use classic Ritchey Logic canti's on my CX bike. It works but it's not discs. The problem is actually not the calipers but keeping the cables free from friction. One ride in the dirt and all breaking power has gone. Will try coated (and more expensive) cables. Hope it helps.