A couple of years ago my dad gave me his and my mom's 1993 Trek Mountain Track 850s. Her's rides pretty good but his had broken teeth on the chain ring and a few other issues. I started riding mom's to work about 8 months ago and feel in love with riding... not to mention I dropped about 20 pounds and started working out again. I got the desire to go and do some single track but didn't trust either bike so I decided to restore dad's old bike.
I took it completely apart and replaced all broken parts, cleaned and lubed everything. After a couple of months, I finished it last night and took it for a test ride today. It rides better than it did when it was new IMO. I really learned a lot about bikes while rebuilding it. Thanks to the forums here, Zinn's book and a lot of youtube videos I was able to do it. It was more complicated than I thought it would be and I ran into some hiccups that slowed me down. It also cost more than I thought and probably wasn't worth it other than the sentimental value and also the ability to learn about bike mechanics. It was a bit of a pain working on a bike this old because there is not a lot of information about it.. such as the new bottom bracket going in opposite of the way it came out. Here are some pics:
I took it completely apart and replaced all broken parts, cleaned and lubed everything. After a couple of months, I finished it last night and took it for a test ride today. It rides better than it did when it was new IMO. I really learned a lot about bikes while rebuilding it. Thanks to the forums here, Zinn's book and a lot of youtube videos I was able to do it. It was more complicated than I thought it would be and I ran into some hiccups that slowed me down. It also cost more than I thought and probably wasn't worth it other than the sentimental value and also the ability to learn about bike mechanics. It was a bit of a pain working on a bike this old because there is not a lot of information about it.. such as the new bottom bracket going in opposite of the way it came out. Here are some pics: