How beautiful, how rare, Alan's Mountain Bike. To be 28 years old it is in an exceptional state of conservation, and since all Shimano XT is mounted and I mean all with even the headset, and the wheel hubs. Those who bought it at the time (in lire) the price certainly made itself felt, plus the set-up is completed with a Marzocchi XC 600 fork.

The conditions

As mentioned, although in excellent storage conditions, there are some details that require attention and / or maintenance. As can be seen from the photos we find some hints of rust / oxide (seen over the years) and the decals ruined, of course you can leave it as it is, certainly it does not involve any problems in use, but .. also the eye he wants his part and will surely get noticed, let's see together how ..

The restoration

Somewhere you have to start and surely this is the best way if you want to do a work to perfection. In this way, every single component can be viewed and managed in the best possible way

New sticker set arrived from England

The result

And here we are at the final part of all the work, this is meant by conservative restoration, with some inevitable signs of aging. There are several hours of work behind all this, but it was certainly worth it both in terms of image and historicity. Some details (see photo) have been customized (subjective and in any case restorable) for embellishment.