Recent content by Dami

There were a few interesting details with this one. One was the bolts on the bottom of the legs which are some pentalobe style special pieces. I know that also Apple uses similar ones on their products to prevent people doing service on their devices by themselves so these are probably some...

The fork issue is now solved also, couple of days ago visited a friend for a trade and came back with this one! It's one of the legendary Rockshox Boxxer prototypes from 1997. On Palmer's bike there was the first version of the prototypes that had black stanchions, but this is as close as I can...

Here's my 1991 Bear Valley and Palisades Trail!

Thank you! Exactly like this and I think I wrote about the difficulty of finding a whole STM to the original post also 😅 But yes, Roox was, and still is, a temporary solution and maybe sometime I’ll find the proper STM for this! I actually have one STM which is identical to the one Vouilloz was...

I guarantee my workshop has a lot more old bikes, parts and junk than Velogi's one 😂 I've though had over 25 years of time to amass all the tools and everything, just managed to get everything nicely sorted out and rearranged the workshop maybe three years ago

Frame restoration done! Shock links and seat collar polished, bearings replaced, and everything put back together.

Respect for that! There would’ve been a few hundred easier languages to pick from also 😄

Here's a little update on the project! Frame is now painted and yesterday attached the decals on it. I was too excited to wait as this is always one of the best parts of projects for me :LOL: The foil based decals (Palmer and INTENSE) came out really nice thanks to my local decal guy, and...

How about ODI Attack grips? They were around back then, used/promoted by mr. Tomac for example, and are still available.

These are rare pieces these days! They had the unique and simple bolt-on guide bushings on the seat tube for the seatstay to slide under shock compression

It’s already disappeared from there and couldn’t find it anymore even as sold item, but someone in the facebook vintage dh forum took this screen capture of it before

I saw it on facebook vintage downhill forum also, not many NOS M1s around anymore, but still the price was just bonkers! And I seriously thought that it would never sell.. I’ve paid less of all my over 15 retro DH frames together 😄

I have some nice possibilities, but as everything is still open concerning the fork, don’t want to jinx anything! Nevertheless the fork is definitely the most challenging part of any Palmer M1 replica as there are maybe a dozen of those proto Boxxers left, travelwise a Boxxer Pro would be the...

Hello! Last spring I found a cheap 1998 Intense M1 frame here in Finland, and got it without yet knowing what kind of project I should turn it into. Then after some time I had a flashback to one of the most iconic bikes to me which I remember first seeing in Chainsmoke movie ridden by Palmer -...

I’ll send you a PM with the details 👍🏻