Recent content by Les S. Moore

Cool bikes Those bikes of yours are whack old school, crazy, and most rare I imagine. Funny, I had a Team Yo Eddy too, for a short time once, never should have sold it. But you know, money was easy, and then tight in the 90's, at least it was in Canada. Sweet steel bike, sweet. I wish I had a...

Battle Tomahawk photos OK, so finally here are some images of my bike, owned since '94...I like it.

SE brakes Well, honestly, I have never seen them packaged up like that. My two kinds were Scott SE's, black clunky-looking cylindres with an aluminum splined canti-body for the brake pad. The others were Suntour, not as servicable, but smaller, lighter and slicker-looking by far. The fronts cam...

Scott Pedersen SE Those are the best canti's you can get. You put the red Scott Matthauser pads on those brakes and look out...the faster you go the better they work. I used to use them for downhilling. But you have to put a booster on because the helix coil will generally just spread your...

Frame designs redone Following all that discussion above about frame designs, here is a 2007 model that looks suprisingly familiar to the older stuff. Note the assymetrical swingarm however, to avoid patent complications I assume. Very nice bike though...9.9kgs

Battle Photo If I remember correctly, the Battle in the lower photo is from a design not actually done by the guys from Battle, but after Dean (I think) bought the name and made a bike called Battle for 1 or 2 years maybe. I saw a mag article once that had an alloy version of that design, but...

Miyata 10000, Battle & AMP photos Hey! Check out these photos. There is a photo of my crew coming back from Ste. Anne 1995, when I saw Herbold. That was the last time I raced my Miyata 10000, which is safe in the trunk of my ‘81 Cadillac Eldorado, and is the very day that my buddy in the...

where in europe I am currently located in Guernsey Channel Islands, technically not in Europe officially, but in the UK nonetheless. We can see France from here so we are quite close for trips across. The riding is very poor though. There really is no land left that isn't privately owned and...

Broken by riding, non-crashed bikes list... Chronologically since 1989: 1. Velo Sport Pyrenees (first MTB, unknowing that is was inadequate for purpose) 2. Fisher Celerity (crunched top tube crossing a ditch) 2. Specialized Team Stumpjumper (at the derr. cable braze-ons, like every other...

Unproduced Miyata Yeah, that's the bike alright...you have the whole history on Miyata for sure. You really are making me rethink another approach to buying my buddy's 10000 back from him. They replaced the 19" with a 17" as they were in the last phases of US/Can sales (I think) at that time...

Re: rear triangle strength. The Battle has a very strong rear end on it with large overlay at the Horst link for lateral stiffness. The original BB pivot lasted 3 years, a nylon sleeve with threaded centring spacers. Then I fashioned 2 brass oil-impregnated bushings which lasted 2 more years...

Hello, Thanks for putting up those other shots of the Herbold Miyatas. That bike was really quite a cool thing at the time. The one I saw when studying at Ste. Anne was the one with the rocker linkage by the seat QR. I never saw that cooler coilspring one in real life. Funny how those early DH...

Battle Tomahawk I had/have one of these bikes, they are the best, very rare. I broke the head tube on my 1994 carbon one when it was still very, very new, my own fault really. The guys at Battle replaced the front triangle with a custom gussetted aluminum one onto my carbon rear end for free...