$142 - 1996 Gary Fisher Paragon restomod 

I had an older 90s Gary Fisher. I was surprisingly shocked how lite the bike felt. Even if it's just a hobby for you. It's a good one to have. Despite hiccups, it's still a form of relaxation for me. Clears my head of other issues.

Collected a 90s Gary Fisher in dark blue and Gold accents. It was such fun with the geometry and smaller wheels than my usual 29ers. Sadly was left to rot outside for a few years but now I’ve cleaned it up ready for restoration 💪🏻 awesome video! Great motivation

nice build! i'm currently tinkering on my 96 hookooekoo... gotta love those classic GFishers. also i love the brass spacer. colour goes really well with the deep blue metllic paint.

The Doctor is in! Bike is feeling much better now

Thanks for yet another great video. In the name of sharing difficulty, I had real problems adjusting my rear derailleur on my first mtb until it dawned on me that clamping the shifter housing between the frame and the work stand might just do that to shifting…

I like that lathe spacer. And yes on the tool expenditures. I go cheap on bikentools, and it always comes back to haunt me and I end up repurchasing

kept all my dads 90's mtbs, just restored one and its working great. cannondale f700's

another great video! Good camera quality!

My first " Brand New " mountain bike was a 1996 Gary Fisher MT.Tam , which is basically the same frame. It was polished aluminum and weighed in at about 21 pounds after upgrading a few of the components, modern bikes are better but this was the best bike I ever owned as I was in my physical prime and rode the heck out of it. I wish I still had it as it had an assortment of Ringle parts , chris king hubs etc..

Nice job.. glad you added even though sometimes not always shown you do experience issues when working on the bikes.🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️

I have a Brodie MTB bicycle, Dynamo model from 1997, I see that you have done a good job, the one I have is similar

I have a 2000 GF Paragon I got for free. Frame was cracked. Tried to have it repaired but didn't hold up. Found an identical frame on FB market for $80 and rebuilt that frame with all the components. I absolutely love it. It's bone stock and just rides fantastic. I have toyed with changing to a 1 X but just like it the way it is.

I'm 65 and I still ride a bicycle twice a week 😁

Painting that beautifully anodized stem was a crime.

This bike has something really cool in it, that clunky fork made for canti brakes, thin tubes and classic geometry, cool colours. It'd be perfect with some better rims, black, triangular section or deeper, not that box casual as now. Appreciate all your humbleness from talking about mistakes. Also some more precise tools are not so easy to build to work well and last long, especially if you're not super deep into bike technical stuff and advanced service. Even if you're an engineer in some metal stuff 😉But such things as this wobly part in bike stand - I'm sure you can make this much stiffier or even foldable. Thankfully I was raised with that "quality" approach in case of tools - I don't know any man in my family that wasn't manual worker like miner, mechanic etc.

hi, please tell me why the connecting rods don’t fit completely onto the square carriage

HA long live the action crankset. I love 'em they were way lighter than the default 1x cranks and chainring on my bike (all one piece) and gives me a setup where i can swap chainrings out over time.

I thought you are like 25 to 30 yrs old but 40? wow you look super young! anyway nice build! I started to overhauling my old bicycle recently(mostly it's just converted to disc brake and 1by drivetrain though) and find this channel! keep up the good work! cheers from south korea

Nice build! I'm interested to see how that paint holds up on the stem.

Wider bars make the front end more responsive.

On Amazon check out the bike hand stuff, a tad higher but decent I think, I gotta get a stand and tool set.

Short-butted is probably, Bruce, a way to make the pipes lighter and stronger and more aero. And I grin and say gorgeous bike, fantastic price, and little dabs of touch-up paint to the frame to hide the scars yet keep original finish for cheap? And okay, I am steamed that you painted that teal stem, I mean, teal, bro, you're in Florida, teal with anything makes it like seriously Miami Beach glam of the '50s. And just the other day I saw a car of that era in teal and white here in Pennsylvania and you know they were stylin' and probably dreamin' of a week at some beach motel called the Castaway. :)

anybody mention to flip the spacer and the stem yet? also the tires.. the knobs on the front and the semi slick on the rear.

I got the same stem, same color, immediately painted it black! 🤣 I didn't remove the anodizing,and I didn't use the primer,so the paint is pealing off..but, I don't mind! It's a decent stem,but don't do jumps or something, with those cheap Chinese parts, because.. hospital and all that.. hehehe 😜 Greetings from Croatia from Kris 😎

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Awesome thanks 👍

UGH! Anodized blue and you paint it... So sad! Kidding, I would not but I love the bright colors from the 90's!

Just picked up a tassajara

It's so funny to me how you made a mistake with hub rebuild but turn a spacer on a lathe. I do bike maintenance daily but couldn't make anything with a lathe out of the blue. That knowledge gap between things you know, giggle. Anyhow, that bike came out nice!

Did you just paint a wake stem?

I would swap the tires, put that nobby nic in the front and kenda in the back, it would ride better I think

Those Shimano shifters break very easily.

What handlebar?

Wow man, you are 40? I would guess at least 10 years less.

Wonderful bike, dude! BUT, this bar... I am not feeling-it ಥ_ಥ . . .

There is nothing juvenile about build a bike the way you want it.

Mate I thought you were 30

Aadont ever put caged beafings in a back weeale its not going to last..put back lose balls..its better..