Recent content by Canuckbiker

Looking forward to another excellent build 👍

Top notch work! Looks great, looking forward to seeing in person

Here's a triple butted stock P2 on my 93' Kilauea:

Proper length is right! 150mm, with the top tube at 21.5” it feels just right to me, previous owner selected. And what’s better than a Salsa Moto on a Merlin ;)? I’m antsy to get this build done with late coming decals being the delay Quite pleased with the assembled front end :D

Moto stem repaint is complete :cool: , I went with the Salsa pepper decal rather than the Salsa words, kinda like it better

Pretty cool to see some back and forth between two legendary builders in the youtube comments below Paul's "Making a Mantis Stem" video.

May as well toss in my Brodie :cool: Canuckbiker's 1988 Brodie climbMax Build thread here: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1988-brodie-climbmax.463677/

Great turn out for the show n shine, I was only able to attend for a couple hours but managed to snap a few photos 😁

Umm, well... couple more changes 😂 It took a while to come across and early (as compared to repop) Turbo saddle in decent shape that was affordable but I think the Turbo suits even better than the Rolls which found a new home on my Ritchey 😁 Also, came across and nice set of XT wheels with...

Yes, it sure does make a good stable mate to the Brodie. I'm guessing some of us rank our bikes to some degree. I'd say the Merlin will be a tie with my Brodie at the top of my list regarding bikes I have most wanted since diving deep into the sport in the late 80s. I will definitely provide a...

Nice, thanks for chiming in. I was already guessing my decal to be missing a few mm at the right, my measurement was only 96mm based on what is still visible, great that you were able to measure one still fully intact 👍

I'd make it silver, but only because the dog collar is 👍

No problem at all, I just dug up this pic from Adrian's 1990 Kona Titanium build thread from a while back, this will help me be more accurate