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Old 05-06-2008, 09:52 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Mountain Bike Frame. What Can I do
Hello agian STR,
I have a old mountain bike, most everything is rusted and the seat is all electric taped up ( I got the bike for free ). I wanted to know if its worth turing into a raod or urban (whatever style its called) to ride on the road for when I don't want to go MTB. I want to turn it into somthing like a Bullvard cursior, or beach cursior.

Recomended? or a crappy Idea, and stick with finding a real road bike.
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Old 05-06-2008, 09:54 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 05-06-2008, 09:57 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Get it media blasted back to bare material and build it back up as a SS.
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Old 05-06-2008, 10:01 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Hello again STR,
I have an old mountain bike, most everything is rusted and the seat is all electric taped up ( I got the bike for free ). I wanted to know if its worth turning into a road or urban (whatever style its called) to ride on the road for when I don't want to go MTB. I want to turn it into something like a boulevard cruiser, or beach cruiser.

Recommended? or a crappy Idea, and stick with finding a real road bike.
Sorry there were just too many grammatical errors for me to leave it alone. You wouldn't happen to be related to Shinken would you?

I say ditch the bike and get something worthy of riding. If its rusty and its got tape on the seat post it's probably not worthy enough to spend money on.

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Get it media blasted back to bare material and build it back up as a SS.
That would have been my second recommendation.
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:20 PM   #5 (permalink)
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use the rusted parts, only clean the bearings and cups/races and use it around town.

keep it ugly so no one wants to steal it.
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:23 PM   #6 (permalink)
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If the rust is not structurally (hurtful ) then I'd say get it sand blasted. What is media blasting?
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:44 PM   #7 (permalink)
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If the rust is not structurally (hurtful ) then I'd say get it sand blasted. What is media blasting?
It's sand blasting with media other than sand (glass beads, walnut shells, plastic beads, aluminum oxide etc).
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:53 PM   #8 (permalink)
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It's what TMZ does to Celebrities
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