Recent content by f-stop

Okay... so I'm getting back into cycling after a long absence (the kids, basically - now at Uni!) and due to bad knees have decided not to go the MTB route. It's tarmac (and cycle paths!) all the way now. So my 1992 S-Works M2 - unused since c.1997, and only ever used for recreational...

That's SO COOL. I'm as excited as I was 20 years ago on opening day. Was there only last Sunday... but in the upstairs, of course. ;)

Could someone give me details of the Bristol Bike Jumble? I've just found this forum, consider myself a retro-MTBer (never new they existed until yesterday) and live in BS20! So want to go - it'll bring back memories of when Mud Dock opened in Bristol and my wife ended up hiding my credit card...

Many thanks for your responses. I've decided it's clearly worth keeping my 20-year-old M2 S-Works and will now go down the route of restoring it all to its former glory. Sadly, I won't be taking it off-road that much - I'm 50 now, with knees aged 80 (I blame the SPDs!) - but a quick...

Thanks. Yes, I'll try and get some pix up this weekend... I don't mind spending on doing it up - if it'll cost £500, I reckon it would still get me a bike that's as good as I'd get new, now, for that amount. But will I be able to get the bits - like the RC35 elastomers and replica S-Works...

I'm looking to get back into cycling following a period of debilitating illness which has left me a little unfit, to say the least - and with painful knees that need 'working' as much as possible so as not to seize up. So I decided to dig out my 1992 S-Works M2 which I used for 'adventurous'...