elessar007
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Frame type:Wicked Lite
Frame number:319w39
Year of manufacture:1993
Frame size:19.5
Color :Aquamarine Fade
Location :New Jersey, United States
Sorry no photos at this moment.
Since I'm giving away all the intimate details like how old my frame is and what size I think its only fair that I round out the picture with a full disclosure. (And also because I love the final creation and I just want to tell people about it. Kind of like how parents of kids under 8 always want to talk about their kids)
I bought the Wicked Lite in 1996 from a shop I worked at as a mechanic in central NJ. It was frame only, no fork. I did the build myself using components I chose because I thought they would complement the fantastic frame. Before I started, Weigley's frame saver was used to prevent the inside of the frame from rusting. Its gone thru some transformations but its current incarnation is a single speed. The wheels I handbuilt using Paul's WORD hub for the rear and a green Ringle hub for the front. Both are laced 3-cross to Mavic 217 32-hole rims. I used 14g butted DT Swiss spokes with gold Spline Drive nipples on the rear & Ti-Dye titanium spokes with blue nipples on the front as a way to dampen vibration from the rigid fork . The stem, seatpost and Ti spindle bottom bracket are Syncros with a threadless Chris King headset in blue. Handlebar is an Answer Alumilite 2 riser bar in black to match the Syncros stem. The crankarms are a pair of Azonics that I wetsanded to remove the red anodization from all but the recesses on the back of the arms and then handpolished to an almost chrome-like shine. The spider is still red just for a bit of color. The brakes are Magura hydraulic calipers but I replaced the levers & fluid cylinders with a pair of green Altek levers and a green Oury grips to go with the aquamarine paint job. For the saddle, I have an Speed Defies Gravity Comp Ti w/ blue kevlar cover. Going with the whole blue and green theme, I also put a Ringle water cage and Paul's Blue Balls seatbinder, both in blue. The tricky part is the fork. I used to use a Rock Shox Judy XC but changed it out to a rather boring rigid unicrown when I turned it into a singlespeed. Even though its a single speed, I still have a front and rear deraileur. I turned the set screw on the front so it acts like a guide for the chain. On the rear I have cable housing going from the deraileur to the last housing stop. I then took a shift cable and put the anchor end on the otherside of the cable stop and manually moved the cage so it lines up with the freewheel before tightening the set- screw. Its not the most elegant chain tensioner but it works better than the Kore chain reactor I originally planned to use. Plus its a good use of my Precison Billet deraileur. The deraieur looks beautiful but really doesn't shift as well as a good old Shimano XT. the fork is nothing special, just a run of the mill cro-mo fork from Tange in a nice shade of blue. think I'm going to see if I can get a fork worthy of the frame when I get some money together. If you have read this far down into my blathering well then I guess I owe you a thanks for listening to me gush on about my Wicked Lite build-up.
Glad to find this forum!
Frame number:319w39
Year of manufacture:1993
Frame size:19.5
Color :Aquamarine Fade
Location :New Jersey, United States
Sorry no photos at this moment.
Since I'm giving away all the intimate details like how old my frame is and what size I think its only fair that I round out the picture with a full disclosure. (And also because I love the final creation and I just want to tell people about it. Kind of like how parents of kids under 8 always want to talk about their kids)
I bought the Wicked Lite in 1996 from a shop I worked at as a mechanic in central NJ. It was frame only, no fork. I did the build myself using components I chose because I thought they would complement the fantastic frame. Before I started, Weigley's frame saver was used to prevent the inside of the frame from rusting. Its gone thru some transformations but its current incarnation is a single speed. The wheels I handbuilt using Paul's WORD hub for the rear and a green Ringle hub for the front. Both are laced 3-cross to Mavic 217 32-hole rims. I used 14g butted DT Swiss spokes with gold Spline Drive nipples on the rear & Ti-Dye titanium spokes with blue nipples on the front as a way to dampen vibration from the rigid fork . The stem, seatpost and Ti spindle bottom bracket are Syncros with a threadless Chris King headset in blue. Handlebar is an Answer Alumilite 2 riser bar in black to match the Syncros stem. The crankarms are a pair of Azonics that I wetsanded to remove the red anodization from all but the recesses on the back of the arms and then handpolished to an almost chrome-like shine. The spider is still red just for a bit of color. The brakes are Magura hydraulic calipers but I replaced the levers & fluid cylinders with a pair of green Altek levers and a green Oury grips to go with the aquamarine paint job. For the saddle, I have an Speed Defies Gravity Comp Ti w/ blue kevlar cover. Going with the whole blue and green theme, I also put a Ringle water cage and Paul's Blue Balls seatbinder, both in blue. The tricky part is the fork. I used to use a Rock Shox Judy XC but changed it out to a rather boring rigid unicrown when I turned it into a singlespeed. Even though its a single speed, I still have a front and rear deraileur. I turned the set screw on the front so it acts like a guide for the chain. On the rear I have cable housing going from the deraileur to the last housing stop. I then took a shift cable and put the anchor end on the otherside of the cable stop and manually moved the cage so it lines up with the freewheel before tightening the set- screw. Its not the most elegant chain tensioner but it works better than the Kore chain reactor I originally planned to use. Plus its a good use of my Precison Billet deraileur. The deraieur looks beautiful but really doesn't shift as well as a good old Shimano XT. the fork is nothing special, just a run of the mill cro-mo fork from Tange in a nice shade of blue. think I'm going to see if I can get a fork worthy of the frame when I get some money together. If you have read this far down into my blathering well then I guess I owe you a thanks for listening to me gush on about my Wicked Lite build-up.
Glad to find this forum!
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