Softride project

[Justin Fox]

My size?


SRS 510


Not.

when I was hanging out with Benwah one night at Fox Studios and a guy at the gym there had one (I was gawking at it so hard he came out to protect his baby).

I was at MCC yesterday trying to get the Basso in shape for the Tuesday night Centennial Park ride and I walked out of the shop with a faux disc wheel and a softride frame.

The disc wheel is rubbish. It's basically one of those retro aero wheel covers which are installed over a normal wheel (I can't remove it without damaging it). The wheel itself is dead straight, has a nice 7 speed suntour cassette on it but it's a tubular, meaning I'd have to buy a glue strip and tubular tyre if I wanted to get it going.

The frame has no decals on it, they've been stripped. It's some sort of chromoly as it's not that heavy. It uses a smaller 650c front wheel (oh no not again).

Some Softride bikes:




What they look like today.

Older models below:











The guys were going to bin this gear. But of-course I had to at least grab it, and leave it lying around at my place for at least a while before I contemplate binning it!

[a.davis12]

oh dear, hes gone mad!

i wanted to make a ss softride once.

[Jarod]

Damn! Is there a type of bike you don't own?

(do it, build it, ride it!)

[a.davis12]

he doesnt have a new roadie!:O

[supertight]

he doesnt have a new roadie!:O

Or a Downhill bike...

[Justin Fox]

LOL. If I stopped spending cash on old things I run into I'd have a new roadie and a DH bike by now! Grrr!

[LordOnOne]

Made in the USA, I hear that’s something that will shortly become quite rare…perhaps yours will be worth something someday.

[Tomas]

What? Downhill bike?!

Nah, looks like a very interesting project. Justin, Velocity have some 650 wheels on runout at the moment, could get you one sub100. Want me to havea look and see what's around?

[Justin Fox]

I just double checkED the front fork and it's a 700c.

[Tomas]

Bit of an asian moment there Justin... "I just double check fork it 700c!"