Recent content by bobby-gg

First proper ride on this mornings commute, fits lovely, rides nicely, shifts perfectly, although I did manage to get the left shifter stuck up my shorts leg crossing the railtracks! Only thing I've found is that after riding my gravel bike almost exclusively since lockdown, it feels way...

A little gravel, nothing too silly

Yeah, really wasn't impressed with the tyres! What do you recommend?

Picked this up the other local on ebay, knew nothing about it, and to be honest, not many people seam too! It's a 26" wheeled, drop bar touring bike. Wasn't in good shape when I picked it up, but a clean up, Aliexpress high-rise stem, Richley riser bars, spoon charge saddle, new chain...

Frame no is B00070076. Anyone know how to decode it? Don't think it's a 2007, certainly not a '97 so???

It continues 😎 Got my favourite tool out to clean and face the bottom bracket Once that was done I dug out my spare mavic ceramics - I can go unmatched pair of 121 with different stickers and the rear built up with alternating blue/red nipples, or replace the front with a X517 rim, but...

I know it starts with a B, then the rest is numbers. I'll check when I'm back at my unit

Absolutely, top of the world 😎

Well, I've given it a further deep clean, followed by a G3 polish, then a couple of layers of my favourite lacquer from Lidl's - it's looking a damn sight better than a couple of days ago! And, I particularly like how the brazing has come through on the Richley rear drop out

By jove @Frankenorange , you're right, I honestly would have argued that no frame builder would do that! But, trawling Google for images of 853 Lobsters led me to 2 right here on retrobike, plus a random one out there in Google world, quite clearly showing the same hole! Only the disc only...

Saw a badly listed steel framed Rock Lobster on market place not too far away from me and thought, that's got to be a 853 looking at the lovely rear dropouts. A quick 26 minute round trip did indeed see me as a new owner of a 853 framed Rock Lobster, complete with knacked Marzocchi forks and...

I did umm and arr about buying it, but for 30 quid I thought sod it

Yup, I bought it 😎 Couldn't resist it at £30, my first proper mountain bike was the earlier double U braked trekker, I've still got it, but it's now painted in a lovely black hammerite and is only a frame, forks & brakes. Yes, it's a bit rough, but it's got the original crackset, chainrings...

Ooh, I think my AT4's are in my storage container - I'll have to dig them out 😂

Look again at the bike in the advert 😂😂😂