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That is drool-worthy - congrats! A DeKerf was always on my bucket list. I finished my Impact build recently and just looking at those seat stays makes me all gooey inside.

Wow - great find!

Your collection is mint! I'd love an Uzzi (and gen 1 Tazer) to round out my collection. My Tracer came with a Uzzi link and coil shock that the PO bought directly from Jeff Steber at Sea Otter back in the day. I preferred the lighter OE setup, but the Uzzi link bolts right up to the Tracer.

Cool, thanks! I was initially a bit disappointed / confused about the lack of horizontal dropouts and shock mount options, but this explains it. I paid more than an order of magnitude less for my frame! It's also cool that I just happened to have a set of Hope 4 piston brakes to match this spec...

The front triangle looks much earlier than an '01 to me. My serial number decodes to an '00 and the shape of the indentations on the frame are different and there's one on the seat mast that isn't present on yours or the black frame: 20240323_153753 by Rented Mule, on Flickr Mine also lacks...

That's a good looking bike! I forgot these existed. I wonder if they inspired the design of the Mountain Cycle Moho?

I use the Crank Bros Speedier lever. It's decent, but your hand will be sore after you're done. I also picked up a pair of cheap plastic ratcheting clamp pliers to pinch the tire on the opposite side of the rim from where I'm working the lever - it stops the bead from coming off on that end as...

I have 4 sets of Mavic UST wheels, a few different versions of Crossmax, a Crossride, and a DeeMax, and I run them all with a standard tube/tire combo. The only pain is mounting tires - buy a lever specifically designed for mounting tubeless and it'll be fine.

I think I have the shock bolts sorted now, but I may get back to you on that. That picture is amazing! The bass boat themed metal flake job in the lower right is what I need!

That looks good - I haven't seen repro decals like those before though. Mine has the flaming logo headtube badge too, which I love.

It would look sweet if it worked! Do it!!!

I hope no one says 'wishbone seat stays'.

I'm just not a fan of the aesthetics of E-stay frames. It's similar to the reason I can't bring myself to love the mint Klein Adept I paid a pittance for - every time I look at it, all I see is a too-vertical seat tube.

The full sus hate is shocking...

Elevated chain stays Cantilever brakes Quill stems / threaded headsets Top tube sloping downward toward the headtube (i.e., bikes that look higher in the back than front)

Update on mango-matching: The X-vert Super mango matches the colour of the 'swoop' in the Y22 decal, but it's a totally different different orange than on the URT 20240327_201301 by Rented Mule, on Flickr 20240327_201317 by Rented Mule, on Flickr I think it's going to look decent once it's...

I did find one. Thanks though, I appreciate it!

Progress has been made! I had shock mounting hardware machined so I could finally get it standing on its own. For the record, the lower shock bolt is nothing exotic, just an M6 x 75 mm. The top shock bolt is an M8 x 50 with a lock nut. I couldn't source socket head cap screws locally so I just...

Forgive the orange seatpost collar - it was the only 30.0 mm I could find locally to get this finished: 20240324_180047 by Rented Mule, on Flickr

Great info on the paint matching - I considered asking that but didn't think anyone would have that info. I have a SID on hand that would match the frame functionally, but it's red and nothing close to the red of the frame. I could repaint it mango.