Lee, I will share our experiences: we bought his/her 90's era Trek 930 ATBs during the pandemic as project bikes. They both had close-to-level top tubes, much like your MB-1. I ended up buying a pair of threaded-to-threadless stem adapters and then installing shorter (and upright) threadless stems to both raise and shorten the reach. Be advised the specific Treks we had required a slightly larger diameter adapter vs. the more common 22.2mm (quill) diameter. Measure your existing quill stem and perhaps order the appropriate sized adapter. The adapters use the almost standard 9/8" diameter size to attach threadless stems.
Good luck, Jeff On Monday, July 3, 2023 at 3:42:44 PM UTC-4 Lee T wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've had this MB-1 since 2007 when I lived in the desert in California. > I'm its second owner. I don't ride it very much and it's taking up a lot of > space in my studio apartment, lol. I wanted a Susie Longbolts but couldn't > afford it, and purchased a lovely Clem "L" large off this list a year ago > and really love it. I also have a Bianchi San Jose singlespeed 58cm already. > > My MB-1s a 50cm and the geometry really annoys me. I have to lean way too > far over to reach the handlebars, plus i wonder if the frame is too small. > I mostly do singletrack on my Clem with 2.3 Thunder Burt tires. I live in > Brooklyn so it's hard to find as many mountain bike opportunities anyway > beyond stealth city park biking. > > I coveted the Susie Longbolts/Wolbis Slugstone but wonder how different it > would really be from my Clem. In any case, I've been trying to figure out > if I should just sell the MB-1 or if I should get some north road bars or > something and try those? As far as I know, I have almost all the original > parts on the bike minus the seat, so maybe I should sell this to someone > for whom this is their dream bike and just be thankful I have two nice > bikes already? Not sure! > > Thanks for any opinions. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a03665b7-4f54-43d1-9f1f-6446b44614d1n%40googlegroups.com.
