Cheers

Genuinely lovely job - even copper greased the inside of the head tube / BB threads and so on, so everything wiped off / screwed back in nicely after. Only downside was that they forgot about the brake bosses - but I just unscrewed them and popped some new stainless ones in, so all good.

100% recommend them.
So today's update... a few weeks ago (a month maybe?) I was thinking about wheels (bearing in mind the black/purple theme). I have some lovely mid/late-90s LX hubs, which I'd bought through here a few years ago, that I thought would be perfect - and help to keep the cost down. Turned out that the rear was missing a spacer or two, but I managed to source some spares on the bay. Both hubs are now stripped, rebuilt and waiting to go - happy boy.
Meanwhile, I'd been hacking through the cheap / second hand rims on eBay and fell across some gorgeous purple anodised retro jobs - being sold by
https://www.mtb-kult.de in Germany. Trying to stick to my budget I obviously immediately bought them. Very, very happy with how they look with the stain black frame (I'm a 90's boy - I can't resist a bit of purple ano.)
Remembering that the last wheel I built was on the back of my Zaskar (the bike it was going to be ridden on) I thought I should probably invest in something handier - and grabbed myself a heavily reduced truing stand from Amazon (
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Minoura-FT-1-W ... B008ENQ39W).
Black spokes are on the way as I type - so hopefully get the first wheel built up this week!
(Stay tuned for 'the saga of the forks' - aaaarrrrgggghhh)
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50's Phillips Trike (child's) ||
94 Saracan MaxTrax ||
96 GT Zaskar LE ||
98 Diamond Back Viper Pro BMX ||
Hatty's HardrockWanted: lots of things. But my money has all gone... for now...