Pro Flex questions

[Mr. Wrong]

Hi all.

Recently scored a ProFlex 855 for a great price (free). Coworker is moving and gave it to me for hauling stuff for him. Was just curious if you guys/gals had any input as to what I should do with it.

Bike in question:



The cushions for the suspension are shot:



In fact the rear one melted clean off:





Remnants:



Besides the toasted cushions, the bike functions properly. Searching around I've seen there are cartridge replacements which are pretty spendy, and I really don't think I want to toss that much dough into this thing.

Any ideas?

[wearyourtruth]

a) head over to a Vintage MTB forum and try to sell it (probably won't get too much) or just pay it forward to someone who WILL spend the $$$ to restore it to it's original glory

b) buy another old-school frame that is rigid or at least has everything intact and swap all those functioning parts over

[M this 2!]

find some elastomer manufacturer and see if it's cheap enough to have some bumpers cut out to fit.

[GLI_DRIVER]

My wife had a pro flex attack,the elasomers did the same thing. I used bump stops from some old mk4 suspension,worked perfect.

[vinividivici]

Where is this bike?

Do you have any pictures of the drive side?