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Re: seems the guy i sold the frame to after 5 years has put it on the market 4 years after i sold it to him... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mint-Vintage- ... SwAF5UY54S

i had an 89 traverse limited edition in black. my first proper mountain bike. has a lot to answer for. bought the frame from heffs and built it up with bits from my old raleigh and a few odd parts like an odyssey prosteer stem with brake boosting roller cam thingy. used to ride it to college...

from my experience he's safe from the crackheads. They nick anything full sus but leave the pimp hardtails well alone. I had a fisher cake and a cannondale jekyll stolen before i went back to riding a ti hardtail. it never gets a second look.

i think i cleaned mine once... i used to clean once a week. sunday morning was the ride, then sunday afternoon was a complete stripdown and rebuild. These days the mountain bike gets cleaned when it becomes too heavy to ride, and the road bike... well i think its done 2000 miles since the last...

Don't have any of the 3 pearl white peugeot rangers or the raleigh discovery i bent, or the saracen traverse limited edition that got converted to a commuter when i was at college. I do still have the Orange C16 which was my first real MTB.

I found a way of fitting forks that haven't got a long enough steerer. Use a headlock to tension the bearings and a seatclamp to hold. Then remove the headlock and fit a quill stem.

i've got an a2z adapter on the back of my bike... 2000 model rock lobster ti, and I'm running deore hydraulic disks with xt thumbies (bought them new in 1990) i run the brake levers pretty low so the gear levers are at a sensible angle. I think avid juicys or hayes fx9s should fit better, but if...

Raleigh Bomber. 26" wheeled version in blue...

how much?? don't think i payed that much when i bought mine new?

some more pics...

The rockhopper has gone through a few changes recently... makes a capable work bike...

I have some old hope hubs sold as working that are definitely not complete, and a hadley hub also sold as working with seized bearings. On the plus side i have got some great deals like a ti frame for £200...

didn't nissan make up the word modtro to describe the micra? I have a mix of old and new to make my bike work the way i want it to. the oldest part has to be the xt thumbies running 8 speed and the newest is probably the 2007 xt rear mech. i'd love to keep it purely retro, but things wear...

clarks climb8

got one in the conservatory still wrapped... i'll check...