"Mike" the Bike

Let me introduce to everyone "Mike" the Bike. This bad boy has been collecting dust in a garage for about ... 5 years? I actually feel pretty honored to be involved in his recovery back into full riding potential. 

Mike is actually as you can see a Specialized Expedition mountain bike probably running around 24-30 speeds. Considering the age of this bike, all that really needed to be done was just a bit of dusting off, pumping of the tires, and chain lubing. Although I must admit, those wheels are bit untrue, but nothing like a good spoke wrench and time can't fix. 

Mike the Bike was pretty light considering the gearing and suspension fork, gotta love aluminum tubing. Also those tires are FAT! Makes me want to get into Fixed Freestyle ahhaha! 

Not gunna lie, after taking this bad boy for a spin for a while, it wanted me take actually take this thing down some dirt paths to see how it would hold up since it was pretty responsive.

Mike's sporting a shimano groupset, not too shabby sir, not too shabby. Also the only rusting that I could find was on the cassette sprockets prolly the 16th and 17th ones? I forgot already but that's pretty damn good and the chain wasn't rusted as well! 

 Just another day in the LBC.

~Luggedsteal