1993 KHS Montana Comp - Retro MTB Service

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Happy Birthday to me! The big 3 – 0. (Let’s see who actually reads this description ;) )

I know you’re all expecting the build of the Raleigh this week but it got delayed ever so slightly. It’ll be out next week, scouts honour!

In this video, I set about servicing the KHS. After picking it up and taking it for a ride with very few adjustments I found out it was a very capable bike but it did need some drivetrain tune up. Strangely the chain is actually “good” according to wear indicator so the skipping could be down to bad indexing with the replacement shifter or perhaps the chain and cassette were mis matched once upon a time.

It’s all sorted now though. All stripped, cleaned and greased (bar the BB). New cables all around. New chain and cassette. Oh and a replacement shifter pod for the original levers. I had a few issues with the shifters maintaining the tension on the cable but that seemed to have corrected itself after a few adjustments.

Probably a controversial point... shaving the pads. Replacement pads are cheap yes but at the time of making this I couldn’t afford my choice of pads – KoolStop dual compound MTB pads. In the mean time I decided to tune up the pads because they had lots of life in them but they’d been running slightly glazed and uneven.

We’re all set to ride again now though! Happy riding!