Recent content by Frankenorange

Good lord! More pics please.

Did you do the service? Find a manual? etc

Is that a fact?

Get a long length of string and feed it into the frame. When an amount that is longer than the tube is in the frame get a vacuum hose over the exit hole and hopefully you can suck the string through the hole. Make sure you have hold of the other end!! Then tape the string to the cable and pull...

Here is another tool. Does not account for backsweep/rise on flat bars or backsweep/rise/reach on drop bars BUT if you know the start point at the clamp, of a set of bars that feel comfy, then you can play with different stems and spacer stacks in the tool...

Get well soon, Mike.

Glad to hear health is improving 👍 and what a lovely ride you both had.

Time trial fat bike

Welcome! Fine bike there and great story 👍

Niiiiiice.

The 517 is a brilliant rim. Strong enough for hard XC and gravel , but not heavy.

I say red and yellow. The barbers pole down tube and forks have been done in days gone by(still is being done!) so why not do the bars? I think it will work well being in close proximity to the headtube. Might not work if the colours were not a good match but they look to be from your pic. The...

The next one to keep an eye on is happening soon. A LEJOGLE by a Canadian woman who is going to try an take the outright record. An amazing back story to this. http://lejogle.org/...

The Twyford shop would have originally been Peter Hare's. Dave Russell, who had a shop in Slough, took Hare's over after closing his Slough shop and briefly trading from his home. I think that must have happened in the early 90's (maybe mid) so it depends when you went there. I remember Hare...

I think they are Cane Creek Direct Curve