Project of the day
I’ve made one last change to the Murray Baja Experience – I ripped off the flat mountain bike-style handlebars and replaced them with a pair of (steel) Nashbar mustache bars, then pulled the mountain bike-style brake levers and replaced them with a pair of (used) Shimano R400 road levers (there are three adult bikes in this household, and now all of them have R400 levers,) and finally pulled the old Shimano thumbshifters and replaced them with the pair of Suntour “power shifter” column shifters that were on the junkpile frame I salvaged a couple of months ago.
The Murray Baja Experience is still lighter than the MLCM, so it might make (if I put in a much longer seatpost and replaced the saddle with one that’s better suited for my butt) a nice bike to ride on flat populaires and R200s.
It still needs a porteur rack. As does the MLCM. I guess it’s time to buy a torch and some brazing flux.