Recent content by joglo

I've used or rather just tried thos derailleur hanger often called goat link. It helps to operate nowadays big range cassettes with older derailleur designed for 3/2x X drivetrains. Just wasn't satisfied, as the top Pulley is with that pretty far away from the smaller cogs. So yes it does the...

Hi, I'm a K2 mountain bike fan. We do have in the Classic-bike section of a German MTB forum a nice documentation of K2 bikes Here translated by Google...

Hi, a nice one 👍 Cyclone cranks have been produced by CPI in Taiwan and there are many different variations starting from 1995, most iconic are the ones with full cut-outs (but maybe also the most filigrane) Some other brands sold those CPI cranks too, some OEMs like Wheeler or Winora have...

I'm pretty sure the frame used for this bike was also for sale for a while at Kleinanzeigen / classified in Germany, not long time ago. I have no clue if it works and how well, but the concept using an torsion elastomere looks interesting. Hoeser was also building pretty nice frames, often...

We do have a few catalogs in the archive https://www.retrobike.co.uk/archive/categories/ridgeback.437/ but it looks like yours is a bit older, already End of 80ties I would guess. @boy"O"boy has posted once an review of 1989 portfolio...

I'm sure here in the forum there would be the best place to get ones. I'll also check storage in my bike cave, I have dismantled a few ones where mostly just one side was damaged, but don't want to promise anything upfront.

a really nice one https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/retro-mtb-fuchs-sonderanfertigung-sachs-new-success-1993-1272095306/

Vanguard / Lizard, just two different brands, but selling identical goods of same origin in Taiwan. They have offered copies of Grafton Fat Fingers but also Ringle Mojo cable hangars. Is that not an Lizard logo, at the middle of the back? Please compare to the 2nd pic at this webpage...

Two bushings on each side, one at the top (you can feel with fingers) the other one almost at the bottom, they are pressed or fix mounted into the casting, hard to see and to me almost impossible to be removed or replaced.

1994 already 2nd gen was introduced, this is a snipped of a 1994 bike magazine, introducing the Evolution 2

TA Specialities have still BCD 94 5 arm chain rings in almost all sizes

sorry, just have this one only from a german GT brochure, but this nice drawing could be pretty helpfull: Unterer Führungsring, at the bottom, means something like lower bushing. That means there are two bushings between stanchions and lowers / casting. Both have to slip, the lower one does...

Do you have kids, in particular a daughter? I've stolen a bit of things from her kit to build braclets... I've changed it later again, and won't do it at ah Hei Hei, but just to list other ideas here ;). A more serious advice would be to check brakes and cable routing in general if there is...

Hi, we do have a thread in the German classic bike forum. That's especially addressing the question, please check to at least see the pictures. https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/xtr-95x-kurbel-was-gab-es-alles-kompatibles.345098/post-17987405 In short, there are the following options: - There...

BTW, based on my experience with used Judy forks, yours seem to have a very typical issue. The lower part of the stanchion has too much wear, as from what I can see at this picture from you. Usually the surface of the stanchion at the bottom of the fork has been killed by missing lubrication...