Recent content by Fat_Bloke

Re: Well, Thank you for the ideas. Just happened to start from the bottom up and researched SIBEX. And what I found within two mins wasn't what I really wanted to see. I'm going to err on the side of caution and not ride these (I haven't ridden them yet! just put them on my most valued Ti frame...

I wondered if anyone can help me ID these forks. I bought them maybe 8 years ago, they came on a '94 Merlin Titanium. They are for a 1" headtube, 26" wheel, legs are 1.12" Diameter, no markings anywhere.

Yep. What a shame. thanks for the second opinion.

tell me there isn't a hairline crack in the lower weld on the rear stay by the sliding dropout on this frame... http://www.ebay.com/itm/200817671001?_t ... 97.c0.m619 (look in the 9th pic, starting top row, left to right) :?: :?: :?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/nyreg ... .html?_r=1 Sound familiar?

US hols I'm a brit, been in Houston 11yrs. You're just as likely to get shot in the wrong part of London, Liverpool, Brum as you are here. There are cities that don't allow guns, New York and Washington DC being two of them, there are probably more I dunno. Remember though, crims don't give a...

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then this one also --- also NSFW (language) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOS6K47Xt8

here's my suggestion. Which works, well it did for me. Write / Email Tom Kellogg at Spectrum Cycles (http://www.spectrum-cycles.com/) and ask him for a set. I did and bought a set of correct decals for my 1995 Merlin (M and E merged, capitalized TITANIUM etc. ) for 42USD plus shipping...

some (not much, sorry) serial number help... gave my brother a Merlin, serial number 763X - Craig Sutton at American Bicycle Group aged it at 1992. I have a Merlin, serial number 1250X - and has been aged as a late 1995 - early 1996.

1993 Fat Ti M

right, Konahed, you're not really helping yourself are you mate? below is a scan of my receipt for shipping one MTB frame to Shropshire from Houston Texas. I used FedEx Economy (5 days) (FedEx Priority is 2 days). As you can see the actual weight was only 7 lbs 14ozs (the frame, rigid...

Check out this article on CNN... http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways ... index.html 185 miles out of a total of 32O forming the Great Allegheny Passage Rail Trail on canal towpaths! Traffic free (i.e no OAP ramblers setting up 'obstructions' just around blind bends, (referring to...

ask him to remove the rear wheel (if he can!) and take pics... me thinks it's bent enough to be tight against the cassette.

How many of you specifically ask to see pics of the drive side chain stay on a bike you are interested in or planning to purchase? If I can't see this critical area in the pics than I specifically ask and if I don't get pics back then the bike stays on the 'shelf'. And I've walked away from a...