Pics of your bike(s)

This thing shreds so hard

Took the Interceptor to Cars & Coffee last week... first CnC is hasn't been raining since February.   Surprised I was the only bike that showed up this month.

Man I love that Interceptor!!!

A lovely Pine Barrens ride after work last week:

Welcome home, guys

The Homegrown will probably never get ridden off road, just because its drivetrain parts are pure unobtainium, unless there's a stash of titanium spider 8sp cassettes and the weird one or two year only XTR cranksets somewhere.

The other guy is 3x7 STX and more standard bottom bracket and common everything else.  Still looking for replacement elastomers for the Quadra 21 fork.

boy that pic brought me right back to 1997.  I lusted over these and the GT LTS's in Mountain Bike Action magazine so bad, haha. 

Re:  The elastomers are identical between all early vintage elastomer/non-coil forks.  If you can find an old Indy S/SL/C model, they're the same internals. 

In reply to golfduke :

I don't mind modding the .30 (it's exhausting to type out its full name) in the name of what parts you can find in 2025.  The biggest thing that concerns me is the ability to find rims.  I loved Mavic 231/237 rims for their machined sidewalls, but gosh, it's like nobody makes rims for cantilever brakes anymore.  

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to golfduke :

I don't mind modding the .30 (it's exhausting to type out its full name) in the name of what parts you can find in 2025.  The biggest thing that concerns me is the ability to find rims.  I loved Mavic 231/237 rims for their machined sidewalls, but gosh, it's like nobody makes rims for cantilever brakes anymore.  

I'd shoot GoLucky a quick message!  He is a purveyor of all things vintage and mtb.  I bet hes got something floating around in the basement of his shop for you. 

In reply to golfduke :

I definitely had those on a bedroom poster too! The beauty of a URT lol. I wanted a metal flake Homegrown so bad. I think Englund/England made drop in coil conversions for the Q21R back in the day. Same fork I had on mine GT Karakoram, although mine had 8 speed LX Rapidfire instead of Gripshift, which was hard to find back then.

fatallightning said:

In reply to golfduke :

I definitely had those on a bedroom poster too! The beauty of a URT lol. I wanted a metal flake Homegrown so bad. I think Englund/England made drop in coil conversions for the Q21R back in the day. Same fork I had on mine GT Karakoram, although mine had 8 speed LX Rapidfire instead of Gripshift, which was hard to find back then.

I saved every penny I made helping my dad and sweeping floors at an LBS for a Gary Fischer Wahoo with XT rapidfires and a Judy SL air/coil fork, i think the first of its time.  It was pearl white with white-rubbered michelins, and I thought it was the coolest, most sexy thing on dirt.  I had it up until 2014, when it unfortunately got lost to a post divorce, back into an apartment purging... 

Thought I'd throw this here for posterity - 1983 Suzuki GS-750E, my SoCal & PNW ride for almost 3 years, 1984-86. Went a bit nuts with it, but it was a really neat bike to own & develop. Featured in Hot Bike magazine, it had custom paint by Pete Santini (one of Chip Foose's buddies), custom Works Performance shock,  deleted factory anti-dive system, Michelin High Sport tires (one of the first sets brought into the US), braided steel brake lines, custom exhaust system w/Vance & Hines components and an engine build with a Yoshimura prepped cylinder head ( ported, 3-angle valve job, Stage 1 cams), and 29 mm Mikuni smooth bores.

What really pulled it together was a tune (re-timing the cams & reassembly) by former Eddie Lawson Superbike mechanic Ken Funkhauser who worked for our local Suzuki dealer. By the time he was done the bike was unbelievable - idled & crackled like a Gatling gun and had a very aggressive (but friendly) power band. Next step would've been a braced swingarm & DyMag magnesium rims, but someone waved a lot of $$$ at me to walk away from it. I was very proud to own it, still wish I had it. :) 

i really like the matching helmet and box.  And.....is that a Triumph in the garage?

In reply to clutchmaster :

Thanks! :) Yep, my buddy's 1981 TR8. Nice ride, he had Gotti rims & sticky Dunlops on it. He took the pic when I moved up there. Yeah, the helmet was painted as a stripped shell and then I took it to Simpson's facility in Torrance and they installed a new liner & padding. Good people to deal with, it was a fun process. Those carbon fiber Model 30s were a great helmet.

Took the VFR800 for a farewell ride before listing her for sale. Such a great all-around bike, but I've got too many arrows in my quiver. I'm going to miss the awesome V-4 sound! 

^ Looks great!

im glad I only unwrapped one side. This older bar tape was significantly shorter than what was needed. I used both rolls to tape one side.

fashion trend?

Newest addition. Never had a Harley before but it's been fun so far. 

Here's my new to me bike I picked up in January.  2008 BMW K1200GT.

I bought a Grom!  Yay.

I already love it.  

Picked up a 1978 Schwinn Le Tour 3 and threw my fixed wheelset and some 38c gravel tires on it. Super fun, needs more gearing pretty bad (52x19 doesn't let me climb much).

car and bike content 

Car and bike you say?

I actually sold this one off earlier this summer, but still, I figured the loons here would appreciate it. 

That's a 1948 Monark-made Road King. I stretched the frame to make it a 1x10, did a disc brake conversion in the rear, built new wheels for it. Threadless headset. I went all out on this one.

This is the before pic:


I did a full write-up of it here: https://another.rodeo/monark-road-king/