I've seen a lot of these videos where they "upgrade" the 90s bikes to 1X and/or somehow fit disc brakes to the old frames. I've often wondered why. I think you did it right. It's practical and beautiful.
This looks great, but disc brakes give you ultimate stoppping power in all conditions. Cantilever breaks, even good ones, can't compare. If it's for showoff and city cruising why not? If it's for descends I would even prefer mini v-brakes rather than cantis.
@@JarosawTabor For sure. But you have to think about how many kilomteres he wants. If he will have 3000 in a year with it, discs are prefered, but if it is for fun with all together 100 km, this brake is ok. But this brake lever and a steel frame is not for the 3k km....
@@JarosawTabor Nah. Good V-brakes are more than good enough for 95% of the riding most people do. If you're a pro, or choose to ride super gnarly stuff regularly, go with disks, but for the rest of us V-brakes are perfectly fine.I speak from experience. In my work as a bike mechanic in The Netherlands, I test ride every bike that I've setup before customers come and pick it up. Most of them have disk brakes, and hardly any of them can match the modulation and power of the V-brakes that are on my own bike, the one I ride to and from work with every day AND do all my mountain biking and gravel riding with.
@@JarosawTabor putting disc brakes on this bike would require a fork built for discs (which would have heavier blades to deal with those forces) or i guess you could YOLO it, weld some tabs, and risk catastrophic failure. But yeah if stopping power is what you're after, i guess technically you do stop pretty quick when your fork bends in half and your face gets an instant introduction to the dirt 😂
Thank you for this. I’ve restored a few bikes in the past, but nothing like this. The shimano rear derailleur waiting in a box for 30 years made my heart happy. Respect.
I just happened to find this video. It is perhaps the best restoration video I have seen in a very long time. The painstaking process of polishing and repainting the old components was beautiful. Your decision to not pick modern parts was also great. I have a soft corner for cantilever brakes and I felt so happy to see those Avid's. I also liked how you kept picking golden bolts out of plastic bags. And the final result was superb.
@@TheraPi I have used very few V brakes but all of the ones I have used have had one thing in common- they are very difficult to modulate. I have often ended up grabbing a handful.
Thanks for sharing this amazing piece of art! Just love everything about your work, every little detail and inspirational restoration on an object that makes life better!
This is a sublime rebuild. Not too much bling, just the perfect balance which gives it a pure classy look. You'r restoration of the parts and wheels is a thing of beauty. I watch a lot of this type of thing here and have done similar projects of my own but I think yours is the best one I've yet seen. Thank you for sharing.
Beautifully done, with taste, care and quality. The brass "custom junkie" accessories are a lovely touch. Good to see those "centre-pull" rim brakes being fitted too. I used to do things like this back in the 70s, although with more standard parts from the local bike shop.
@@Velofil That is the problem with trying to get specific older parts. I recently had a GT Karakoram with full LX group set but the combo brake lever shifters were destroyed internally (someone had clearly tried to take them apart and fix without knowing what they were doing) and I wasn't able to locate the same parts. I've set aside the remaining useable parts for a different build.
I see you are a man of class also. All my bikes feature KMC gold chains as the little cherry on top. The metallic flake in the beautiful blue paint with the beauty of the silver shine on components is truly gorgeous. There is too much black on bikes today, and we, The Bling Warriors, are in a battle against it. I cannot give enough kudos to you. Well done, sir.
Very nice, love the dura ace cranks, my vote for classiest cranks ever, also like the snappy cables great attention to detail. Got me thinking about a road restoration of my own
Sehr geil. Gut abgestimmte Cantileverbremsen sind heute auch noch bei leichten Fahrrädern absolut konkurrenzfähig, ist meine Meinung. Jedenfalls nicht schlechter als V-Brakes. Super Video, viele Grüße
@@Velofilhochwertige cantis sind echt geil (optisch und bremstechnisch), leider sind die meistens biller Schrott. Mini-V bremsen sind aber ne echt gute alternative für alte CX Rahmen / dropbar umbauten!
Absolutely gorgeous build, kudos to you sir! I own a 24 inch Miyata Junior Sport I dream about having rebuilt to such beautiful specs! Maybe soon I'm just not keen to the bike build world
I did something similar in the early 90s to my '89 Saracen Trekker MTB (Deore II GS) with dropped Cinelli bars and ultegra bar end levers after watching John Tomac, an odd bike as It had U brakes front and rear! (in the "normal" places) so the braking was phenomenal with the Aztec pads I added, I also had Hardpack 1.5 tyres, which I loved a very narrow tyre even for the time, with no suspension you felt everything as it wasn't just gravel I rode, This is a lovely build, you really have taken extra care in restoring and selecting everything!, I would be scared to ride this, looks so perfect, even when you buy brand new, bikes do not look like this good
Funny, because that's what I did in 90s. Coming from MTB at the time I wanted a bike for road and offroad, and in 1996 I started from a custom-made steel frame designed for cyclo-cross, mounting with a mix of components, with the target of a allrounder, ready for travels too. At the end, I only used for five years, then I bought one of the first endurance road bike, lighter and faster. But I still have my protogravel and I ride it in vintage events.
Nice adaptation that respected the original ethos while making it useful for modern context. And BEAUTIFUL. I didn't think those old STI brifters could ever be made to look nice again. The only thing I would have done differently is to wax the chain so it stays all blingy like that.
I missed your videos so much. Perfect video. Thank you very much. I watched it with pleasure. I continue to follow and recommend you, my friend. Greetings from Türkiye. Good luck. #velofil
This is an amazing rebuild! I personally would need lower gears for where I ride, I have a triple on mine with a 30T small ring and I want to go smaller. It is setup more like my road bikes.
very good work - congratulations . I've rebuilt a few bikes similar to yours and also got good feedback on how great it all is. BUT, no-one wanted to pay the price for it, that to all the comments that think it's soooo good. think about how much a refurbished bike like that would be worth to you.
This would have to cost 1500€ minimum, gotta be nearly 1000 in it in parts alone. Still absolutely stunning, and probably nicer than most new bikes under 2k.
Stunning bike mate only just came across your channel, surfing the UA-cam highway looking for similar channels to my own. Just want to say great bike you have done it justice ❤
I've seen a lot of these videos where they "upgrade" the 90s bikes to 1X and/or somehow fit disc brakes to the old frames. I've often wondered why. I think you did it right. It's practical and beautiful.
This looks great, but disc brakes give you ultimate stoppping power in all conditions. Cantilever breaks, even good ones, can't compare. If it's for showoff and city cruising why not? If it's for descends I would even prefer mini v-brakes rather than cantis.
The weak spot are the old STI leavers. There are non in the market and restoring the innere mechanics is a pain.
@@JarosawTabor For sure. But you have to think about how many kilomteres he wants. If he will have 3000 in a year with it, discs are prefered, but if it is for fun with all together 100 km, this brake is ok. But this brake lever and a steel frame is not for the 3k km....
@@JarosawTabor Nah. Good V-brakes are more than good enough for 95% of the riding most people do. If you're a pro, or choose to ride super gnarly stuff regularly, go with disks, but for the rest of us V-brakes are perfectly fine.I speak from experience.
In my work as a bike mechanic in The Netherlands, I test ride every bike that I've setup before customers come and pick it up. Most of them have disk brakes, and hardly any of them can match the modulation and power of the V-brakes that are on my own bike, the one I ride to and from work with every day AND do all my mountain biking and gravel riding with.
@@JarosawTabor putting disc brakes on this bike would require a fork built for discs (which would have heavier blades to deal with those forces)
or i guess you could YOLO it, weld some tabs, and risk catastrophic failure.
But yeah if stopping power is what you're after, i guess technically you do stop pretty quick when your fork bends in half and your face gets an instant introduction to the dirt 😂
That's a gorgeous, inspired work of art!
Those Dura Ace cranks are beautiful!
Thank you for this. I’ve restored a few bikes in the past, but nothing like this. The shimano rear derailleur waiting in a box for 30 years made my heart happy. Respect.
Thanks a lot 🤗
That's the perfect color combination!
BRAVO!!!
I just happened to find this video. It is perhaps the best restoration video I have seen in a very long time. The painstaking process of polishing and repainting the old components was beautiful. Your decision to not pick modern parts was also great. I have a soft corner for cantilever brakes and I felt so happy to see those Avid's. I also liked how you kept picking golden bolts out of plastic bags. And the final result was superb.
You should have updated the brakes to V brakes
@@TheraPi I have used very few V brakes but all of the ones I have used have had one thing in common- they are very difficult to modulate. I have often ended up grabbing a handful.
Thanks a lot for the nice compliment 🤗
That's not just a bike, that's a piece of art. And that Cannondale in the background looks stunning as well.
Cool, 😄 glad you like my build
Astounding. The attention to detail is incredible. Hats off to you sir. Its not a restoration its a brand new build. Its an artwork.
thank you very much I feel honored😊
Love how original it is! Iv seen so many 1x “upgrades” and this puts them to shame! Very nice bike!!
It looks spectacular 👌I really like seeing the bike being assembled, very good work with the details, thanks for the video 🎉🎉
What a privilege to have watched this ! Brilliant !
Thank you, glad you like it🤗
Beautiful build well done, the attention to detail is fascinating 👍
Looks wonderful! Well done!
Thanks for sharing this amazing piece of art! Just love everything about your work, every little detail and inspirational restoration on an object that makes life better!
The amount of labor put into this thing is insane. Those cranks are beautiful, but damn…
I sure appreciate your attention to detail. Love those cantis!
Thank you glad you like it🤗
Outstanding build, a thing of beauty!!
Glad you like it, thanks a lot👍
This is a sublime rebuild. Not too much bling, just the perfect balance which gives it a pure classy look.
You'r restoration of the parts and wheels is a thing of beauty.
I watch a lot of this type of thing here and have done similar projects of my own but I think yours is the best one I've yet seen. Thank you for sharing.
THANK YOU Jeremy glad you like it🤗
Beautifully done, with taste, care and quality. The brass "custom junkie" accessories are a lovely touch. Good to see those "centre-pull" rim brakes being fitted too. I used to do things like this back in the 70s, although with more standard parts from the local bike shop.
Glad you like it, thanks 🤗
Watching you work and rebuilding this into a beauty, is like eating icecream with one's eyes.
Thanks a lot 😃🤗🍦
Wow❤. Great choice of components and you were lucky to find them. Great job on the polishing. 👍👍👍
Thanks John, glad you like it. It took me two years to find all the parts 😂
@@Velofil That is the problem with trying to get specific older parts. I recently had a GT Karakoram with full LX group set but the combo brake lever shifters were destroyed internally (someone had clearly tried to take them apart and fix without knowing what they were doing) and I wasn't able to locate the same parts. I've set aside the remaining useable parts for a different build.
Stunning build. Love it. I’ve done three of these over the years but none as pretty as this. Cheers.
Thanks for the compliment🤗
Wow, you really did a great job here. The bike turned out so beautiful! Good thing you kept the dura ace cranks. Color combinations were just perfect.
A nice project. Well done mate. Thanks for sharing
'A thing of beauty is a joy forever ...' (John Keats, from Endymion).
That looks fantastic! Love the small gold accents and the gold chain!
Absolutely amazing work. Someday I'd love to ride something like this.
I see you are a man of class also. All my bikes feature KMC gold chains as the little cherry on top.
The metallic flake in the beautiful blue paint with the beauty of the silver shine on components is truly gorgeous. There is too much black on bikes today, and we, The Bling Warriors, are in a battle against it.
I cannot give enough kudos to you. Well done, sir.
Thanks a lot 🤗
All the retro parts are the icing on the cake.
Thanks 🥞
Wow, what an beautiful and cool bike. I'm very impressed 👍👍👍
Great work, great video and most of all massive insoiration!
Nice Bike! Way better than what I cobble together in my shop.
Wonderful result, excellent the step by step recording, congratulations for this nice video!!!
I have an iron horse tandem that 30yrs old I think. I've just been so inspired watching this, I picture it redone gold chain and all. Great job.
I'm glad I could give you some inspiration, thanks🤗
Very nice, love the dura ace cranks, my vote for classiest cranks ever, also like the snappy cables great attention to detail. Got me thinking about a road restoration of my own
Sehr geil.
Gut abgestimmte Cantileverbremsen sind heute auch noch bei leichten Fahrrädern absolut konkurrenzfähig, ist meine Meinung.
Jedenfalls nicht schlechter als V-Brakes.
Super Video, viele Grüße
Danke Bergolli1, diese Bremsen haben mich echt überrascht, top bremsleistung und sehr gut dosierbar.
@@Velofilhochwertige cantis sind echt geil (optisch und bremstechnisch), leider sind die meistens biller Schrott. Mini-V bremsen sind aber ne echt gute alternative für alte CX Rahmen / dropbar umbauten!
Who ever owned it before never cleaned it but looks sick af keep up the great content and builds. 🤘👍🙏🙃
Thans a lot, glad you like my builds 🤗
@@Velofil yw anytime!
Absolutely gorgeous build, kudos to you sir! I own a 24 inch Miyata Junior Sport I dream about having rebuilt to such beautiful specs! Maybe soon I'm just not keen to the bike build world
Easily one of the coolest builds Ive seen on yt. And Ive seen ALOT. Kudos!
@@johndef5075 thanks glad you Like it.
I did something similar in the early 90s to my '89 Saracen Trekker MTB (Deore II GS) with dropped Cinelli bars and ultegra bar end levers after watching John Tomac, an odd bike as It had U brakes front and rear! (in the "normal" places) so the braking was phenomenal with the Aztec pads I added, I also had Hardpack 1.5 tyres, which I loved a very narrow tyre even for the time, with no suspension you felt everything as it wasn't just gravel I rode, This is a lovely build, you really have taken extra care in restoring and selecting everything!, I would be scared to ride this, looks so perfect, even when you buy brand new, bikes do not look like this good
Thanks a lot "Matty 🤗" glad you like it, would love to see your build!
Spectacular my friend, a thing of beauty 👌
Looks just perfect in every way
Love the effort you put in, it looks amazing! 😍
Pure respect my friend, I have a 1987 Bottecchia frame that is going the same way.
Thanks Martin 🤗
Wow, You made it so beautiful! I want one too!!
Awsome work! Congrats! Thanks for the detailed video!🙂
WOW. What an amazing job. I hope you are making a living at this craft.
Thanks a lot🤗would like to earn some money with it, but I only do these conversions for myself as a hobby
Wow! Sandblasting pro spray booth, total gangsta with the gold chain and snappy link shift. My streak of conversion envy continues!
Beeihdruckendi Feinarbeit! Geiles Resultat! Für söttigi Projekt isch Ricardo scho toll.
@@CleverSmart123 dangschön👍 freut mi wenn's gfallt!
i remember seeing old merida bikes with shimano 105 but 10 speed
seeing these kinds of restorations is really relaxing
Your channel is basically the "my mechanics" version of bicycles
thank you I have rarely received a better compliment🤗
Amazing restorarion! Congrats from Brazil!! 🇧🇷🚴♂️
Super nice result. Would definitely ride this thing
Thanks Philipp glad you like it🤗
Beautiful bike fantastic job
Thanks a lot 😄👍
Es un deleite ver este maravilloso trabajo.gracias por eso .👌🚴
Awesome!! Congrats ! and Thanks for sharing.
and thanks for commenting😄
Funny, because that's what I did in 90s. Coming from MTB at the time I wanted a bike for road and offroad, and in 1996 I started from a custom-made steel frame designed for cyclo-cross, mounting with a mix of components, with the target of a allrounder, ready for travels too. At the end, I only used for five years, then I bought one of the first endurance road bike, lighter and faster. But I still have my protogravel and I ride it in vintage events.
Absolutely beautiful work!!
Thanks, glad you like it🤗
Nice adaptation that respected the original ethos while making it useful for modern context. And BEAUTIFUL. I didn't think those old STI brifters could ever be made to look nice again. The only thing I would have done differently is to wax the chain so it stays all blingy like that.
Thanks a lot🤗
A real beauty and cool colour scheme. Top work!
Thanks a lot 🤗
Beautiful project, the end result is so elegant. Pedal on!
Thank you for the compliment, I really appreciate it🤗
Very very cool, Loved the video, Cheers Colin
Thanks Colin👍
Super nice,what a beautiful bike.
Thanks Benjamin🤗
metallic blue, polished metal, brown 👌 that's my favorite combo right there
Te juro que vi el video sin velocidad doble ni adelantarle ni nada. This is fine art!
Mamamia beim polieren kann ich mir definitiv noch was von dir abschauen. Sehr geiler Aufbau!
Danke Alexsch, schau lieber nicht zu genau, das machen andere noch viel besser 😂
SO beautiful!!!!! Love it!!!
Glad you like it!🤗
Great job. I also love golden details at the bike
Thanks a lot 🤗
Increíble! Una obra de arte! Felicitaciones!
Muchas gracias, me alegro que te guste.👍
Wow, great job!
Great job on the bike & nice video!😁👍
Thanks a lot👍
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It's great work! 👍🏻 Very nice bike.
Thank you, glad you like the result🤗
Absolutely beautiful
Thanks a lot 🤗
It looks amazing! Congratulations!!!!
Thank you, I really appreciate that🤗
Love the gold details
I missed your videos so much. Perfect video. Thank you very much. I watched it with pleasure. I continue to follow and recommend you, my friend. Greetings from Türkiye. Good luck. #velofil
Thank for the nice comment! Greeting to Türkiye from Switzerland👋
I subscribed halfway through the video.
Thanks a lot for the Sub🤗
Amazing work love your video i only have 1 road bike and i love gravel bike too
Very beautiful bike!
Thanks a lot 😁👍
This is an amazing rebuild! I personally would need lower gears for where I ride, I have a triple on mine with a 30T small ring and I want to go smaller. It is setup more like my road bikes.
This is like MTV before reality!!!
😮 Wow! Beautiful job!
Thanks for the compliment 🤗
Great choice on cable housing 👌 I have the Nokon kind and it’s the key to years of maintenance free shifting
Thanks Nate 🤗
its not a restoration, this is masterpiece bro ❤❤❤
Thanks for the compliment🤗
What a fantastic project! I'm going to poach some idea's from your video for my own project, especially the Gold Chain. Very Bling!
I'm glad I could give you some ideas😄
Cranks look lovely!
thanks you🤗
Beautiful work!
Thanks a lot👍
Beautiful! Thanks for the video
thank you you're welcome🤗
very good work - congratulations . I've rebuilt a few bikes similar to yours and also got good feedback on how great it all is. BUT, no-one wanted to pay the price for it, that to all the comments that think it's soooo good. think about how much a refurbished bike like that would be worth to you.
This would have to cost 1500€ minimum, gotta be nearly 1000 in it in parts alone. Still absolutely stunning, and probably nicer than most new bikes under 2k.
@@Lolwutfordawin thought so, and your labor not even thought to be charged
Danke dir, das ding ist vom Zeitaufwand nicht zu bezahlen, aber ich habs ja nur für mich gemacht 😁
Hypnotized the whole time. Then, I wanted the dang bike. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Very well done.
YOU NEED A NEW BIKE YOU NEED A NEW BIKE YOU NEED A NEW BIKE 🤣
Really nice to see you kept it “period correct”.
Glad you like it 👍
Loved the original paint job on the bike but great build overall!
Wow very nice bike sir.
Thanks a lot 👍
what a absolute banger congrats
Thanks a lot Roy 👍
Wunderschöner Build! Hätte andere Outer cables genommen, aber richtig gut gemacht!
Vielen Dank für Dein Lob! Das geht runter wie KettenÖl 🤣
Stunning bike mate only just came across your channel, surfing the UA-cam highway looking for similar channels to my own. Just want to say great bike you have done it justice ❤
Thanks a lot 🤗
Parabéns, ficou incrível, adoro old scholl
Good techniques...cycle art
Thank you 🤗
Stunning....!!❤
Thanks 👍
A modern gravel bike of the 90's is just the classic 90's MTB. w/ drop-bars.
Awesome job! Congrats :)
Glad you like it thanks🤗