MBK with Mountain LX

[PhillB]

MBK Ranger Hi-Tech Retro MTN Bike Fluro 1989 | eBay

Retro Mountain Bike. Needs servicing. Great project bike for retro styling! Leeds Bike Mill is a community bike recycling and training co-op, established in 2014. We service bikes that have been discarded or donated; diverting them from landfill to save energy and resources.

www.ebay.co.uk

Mountain LX bits including thumbies!

 

[27motorhead]

MBK Ranger Hi-Tech Retro MTN Bike Fluro 1989 | eBay

Retro Mountain Bike. Needs servicing. Great project bike for retro styling! Leeds Bike Mill is a community bike recycling and training co-op, established in 2014. We service bikes that have been discarded or donated; diverting them from landfill to save energy and resources.

www.ebay.co.uk

Mountain LX bits including thumbies!

Love that! My first proper MTB after trying to ride my 10 speed racer off-road for over a year!

100% original except for missing reflectors (shop may not have fitted) and those bars are NOT cut down, this was the dawn of narrow-bar-hell thanks to those pre internet influencers known as London couriers!

 

[27motorhead]

Love that! My first proper MTB after trying to ride my 10 speed racer off-road for over a year!

100% original except for missing reflectors (shop may not have fitted) and those bars are NOT cut down, this was the dawn of narrow-bar-hell thanks to those pre internet influencers known as London couriers!

*Edit... assuming the original saddle is under that cover. The original was like a sofa as it was?!*

 

[PhillB]

It's reasonably priced too...I reckon it could clean up very nicely!

 

[27motorhead]

That'll clean up lovely. It's a heafty 32lb beauty Phill! Already out of date when it was launched! Sadly the original tyres are perished: Hutchinson's On the Rocks that weighed an absolute ton!

I have a fully original one and then another frameset ready to try and replicate how I modded it before it got stolen so I can recreate/finish my unfinished project from 1990! The modded one will require me to do a full respray in similar style to the original, but with a twist. Don't quite know what the twist will be yet...

 

[PhillB]

That'll clean up lovely. It's a heafty 32lb beauty Phill! Already out of date when it was launched! Sadly the original tyres are perished: Hutchinson's On the Rocks that weighed an absolute ton!

Like a missile downhill then

I have a fully original one and then another frameset ready to try and replicate how I modded it before it got stolen so I can recreate/finish my unfinished project from 1990! The modded one will require me to do a full respray in similar style to the original, but with a twist. Don't quite know what the twist will be yet...

Look forward to a thread when you get around to it!!

 

[27motorhead]

Like a missile downhill then

It was FAST downhill and in my younger years I was known to unhook my brakes and ride down super steep drops brakeless to prevent myself going over the bars. I was a proper idiot!!!

Look forward to a thread when you get around to it!!

Will have to be after the work on the house so hopefully sometime next year when I might have some space to build bikes properly and do some spraying. I've got all the bits ready and waiting and have a Pinterest page for paint inspiration...

 

[trailwright]

I remember seeing an ad in MBUK for this exact model in early '89 and though how cool it was. Great to see one for sale.

Edit: I see the ebay ad has the ad from the magazine too!

 

[JCS]

OMG that is so cool. I remember these! During the late 80's neon phase, this was the best as it didn't just have one neon colour - it had all of them

 

[Dface]

That’s cool. Bet the saddle isn’t even ripped under there