Old School Mongoose ATB All-Terrain Bike - 1984 Vintage mountain bike restoration ASMR 

Hey. My dad had one of these. In fact, it was the first "mountain bike" I ever saw, and I remember asking him why he needed so many gears! 15 seemed like overkill. Now I know. That bike travelled a lot. Dad was working in China at the time, based in Guangzhou. He bought the bike from an American pal of his who worked for Nike. He'd brought it in from the States. Dad rode it in China, in Korea, here in Hong Kong, the UK and Spain. I don't know where it ended up, but it was a fun ride. Cheers

How many things do we manufacture today, that could so easily be cleaned and restored back to use like this, ready for another 40 years service? Beautiful to see.

Awesomeness!!! That is a sweet bike. My fave bikes are from the 80's & 90's . Retro Mtn bikes are the best. Love that handlebar & thumb-shifters

Nice job! That bike turned out nice. Looking forward to the next restoration.

Clean. Nice profile.

Vintage Sakae Randnner components always brings a certain Jena se qua to the bikes they're attached to.

I'm glad u kept it OG playah!

Wow what a beautiful bicycle 🚲

Such a pretty bike. Nice job!

Awesome build and a relaxing watch.

I saw you pull out the bike and first I said to myself was... That's when Mongoose was cool. Then I heard your intro. Yup Every kid wanted a Mongoose

So you have a good start on a pretty good youtube channel. These videos take a lot of work to put together. Your content is good, enjoyable, I hope you keep going. I like your philosophy of changing up some of your builds and doing others remaining true to the original bike and condition.

Them seats were so comfy 👍

Sweet ride!

Beauty right here!! 🔥🔥🔥

that bike is gorgeously spec'd I have the stem and am looking at a free spirit with an SR BMX setup

Decent build, accompanied by some decent music. Life can be quite civilised sometimes...

Thanks for sharing nice bike and a great job. Des P

interesting how some parts were market dependent. We don't have such Dia Compe brakes or such wonderful stems in Europe. It's the first time I see them.

As allways a grand bike this.

I have this same bike. I found it outside of an old fire department with a free sign on it in mint condition. It was so clean i kinda regret using it but oh well. Now it has a bt100 motor on it and goes 35 mph. I was trying to date it and everything is exactly the same except my forks seem to be the original and are different. They are more old school like flat top. I wonder if they made an 83.

Nice find and great build video! What spray is that you use for cleaning the frame ? Those red ones are the rare ones ! you got lucky there most of them are Chrome... the wheels are extremely desirable especially the hard anodized ones

Really good job on bringing this old bike back to life..Where did you get that part cleaning machine at and what brand is it? Keep up the good work and looking forward to the next one..

what a sweetbbike

Hi Todd, great video. I have the same bike, except chrome. Somehow lost all five bolts (and spacers?) for the inner chain ring. Would you happen to know what size they would be? So I can order the correct ones.

Hi, what is the name of the device you are using to clean the small parts, that red thing? What is it hooked up to (I hear a motor on in the background)? Thanks!

Nice job! I am getting ready to restore a 88' Specialized Rockhopper Comp. Where did you get your parts washer?

Thst thing would look killer if the stem was polished and bolts cleaned up

Are these 27.5 inch or 29 inch wheels ?

Why remove “everything”,?. I don’t understand why?

Love the bike design ru-vid.comUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L and functionality. It is hard to align the front tired to center the disk brakes. The brake wheel touches the stationery side of the brake caliper and pad. I aired the tire up to 40 psi as the markings say 40-60psi. Left the house for a few hours and came back to an exploded innertube.All in all it seems to be a good bike. Have not ridden it yet though so that's the max of my knowledge. Update, put a new innertube made sure the tire was set properly and it did the same thing in under 20 minutes as second pic shows.

I have issue with the word "restoration" which means to make like new. All the "cool" kids are using it, but it doesn't make it right. You did an overhaul. You cleaned it up, did what you had to, and it turned out pretty good if I do say so. But it was not a restoration. BTW, the front end (shifters,levers)is pure 1986/87 and I would bet the rest of the bike is as well. That deore derailleur set is in that year range too. If you ever do an update on this bike, please use parts that do it justice. You kinda did it on the cheap this time. That was a very good MTB in it's day.

Seems like a lot of these "restoration" videos are just dissasembly and cleaning so basically just maintenance. And cutting those cables seemed kinda silly since they were original and still good