2001 orange zero retro trials build.

[Grubby]

Good to see the forks being put to good use!

 

[Luke26mhz]

Good to see the forks being put to good use!

Thank you so much for the forks. They indeed have been put to good use. I need to find another set of them now though

 

[Luke26mhz]

So today didn’t exactly go to plan whilst mounting the maguras.

The powder coat on the mounts is way too thick. I must have spent an hour with the dremmel sanding them to fit, but it didn’t work. Even snapped some mounts . So I’ve had to rummage through the spares box and use some old mounts. At least I get an idea of what they look like .

The plan now is to get these old mounts wet sprayed or try and find some NOS mounts.

Also fitted the up rated metal pistons and springs, plazmatic pads, new pivot bolts and leaver clamp bolts.

 

[Luke26mhz]

A few jobs done today.

Got the other set of leavers fully built up with the up rated metal pistons, springs, home made tpa’s and all new bolts and fixings.




Started plumbing all the lines up, but got stuck as I have no vice so couldn’t fit the barbed fixings into the hose for the cross overs.

Also test fitted an xlite phatso to see if there’s any clearance, looks like I have 1 or 2mm to play with and that’s with the slaves pushes up to the clamps. May not be able to run a phatso on this build now.

 

[trailstar82]

@Luke26mhz loving your work on the Magura and middleburn bits. The attention to detail is outrageous! You need to source a set of IRC Missiles to achieve the holy trinity of Dh/trials tyres. Awesome work dude!

 

[Luke26mhz]

@Luke26mhz loving your work on the Magura and middleburn bits. The attention to detail is outrageous! You need to source a set of IRC Missiles to achieve the holy trinity of Dh/trials tyres. Awesome work dude!

Thanks you so much mate. It’s definitely been a labour or love . To be honest, missiles were before my time. When I got into trials everyone was on kujo’s, El Gato’s and tioga’s. For me, the NOS El Gato’s have been my holy grail on this build.

 

[Luke26mhz]

As it’s the holidays, the post is a little slower so I have been waiting for parts to turn up.

First up, another set of rims. I now have 14 rims , but I couldn’t resist these. These look NOS to me and the only cost me £30 posted. Alex DH32’s.




A new park tool mat.



Then mid week I was going though boxes and getting everything bubble wrapped and bagged ready for future builds. Some pretty cool stuff collected this year.



Another shimano sora rear mech. That’s 3 now in the collection.



Some metal elbows for the magura mounts from my friend Wayne. These were needed to finally mount the front brakes.



And my ready made crossovers from Ben @ trials addict, absolutely amazing service. If you need magura parts, he’s the biggest stock holder of magura parts in the uk.



Then New Year’s Eve it was time to finally fit all the hoses and bleed the brakes up. Also fitted the magura cable guides for the rear brake.





And put up out the way until I get the wheels built, once I decide what I’m going to use.

 

[Luke26mhz]

Wow! It’s been nearly a month without an update.

There’s a good reason for this though. In the last month i have been networking with a few people about a couple of frames I have wanted since getting back into bikes.

With my username it’s no surprise what’s going to happen next.

So first up, a pashley 26mhz frame and forks, bars, stem and headset. I was contacted about this earlier this month and I had to have it.

A nice chap called Dave helped me out massively and collected the frame from where he lived and met me halfway. Legend.




Whilst the deal was done with the blue one, another one popped up. So a deal was done and now we have 2!



Then a huge journey to Brighton today saw me in possession of this bit of trials history right here. I can’t believe this had been for sale for over 7 months and never got snapped up. £200, what a bargain!






Then a couple of weeks ago me and a guy from another forum found a job lot of frames for sale and he collected them last weekend (thanks brain). So from Brighton I headed my way over to Andover to collect them.

2 11” orange zeros! Unfortunately the silver one is cracked, but it’s repairable. Undecided what I’ll do with the silver one yet.

The white one has bad oxidation on the paint work, but I was always going to get it re painted and re stickered.




So that’s 366 miles driven in 2 days, but well worth it.

 

[chuck85]

Any other cool frames in this stash?!

 

[W7Ford]

What a collection! The Orange you've built looks incredible.