Recent content by marc two tone

Hello, your English is just fine, all very understandable! That indentation happens alot with Tange ultimate tubing due to its inherent thin walls. OK, you want to push the dented area back out....I'm an no expert on that subject and access will be exceptionally difficult. **carefully now**...

This was in Ostend last week. Lovely frame, kept going with some newer stuff.

As heavy, non nimble and all that as it may be....it's part of an era that came before alot of desirable objects. That is the type of bike most of us had, or knew of it, xmas or birthday special, age 13. Rocking that bike, maaan.

Save yourself some grief and buy these, I mean, insist the bike shop do... Ask seller for steerer length...

Yes, I've done what you are proposing with mixed results. Firstly, the damping and rebound is affected, you could say firmer and 'quicker'. Almost harsh. Now that's what I wanted actually but a bit of a slower compression would have been nice. Purely based on a quick setup though. Feel free to...

Perceivable as Rear Derailleur.

The first on the agenda for me, would be bottom bracket and stem attention. Whip off the cranks and get the BB out, see what you are dealing with. Even if it's blow out the curry powder, re grease and put back in. If original or, a sympathetic swap out with a cartridge jobby. These old steel...

Yep, leave them alone. If you de-lace them, my money is that they will be tricky to true up again in another spoke and hub setup. As good as they are, they are not treasure. Save yourself some faffing around.

With marins from early to mid 90's, there is not yet an accurate science to work everything out. Almost antiquary where rembrandt did paint something, but cannot be put down to the month/ year, but a masterpiece typical of the time when a certain pigment became available to artists. 1995 team...

E....is the blank spot (non threaded) next to drive side flange, to accommodate a front mech thats bb mounted.

It'll come down to your end goal with it. If you are sourcing new parts that are mint, then the frame/fork/stem may seem rough. If not then just strip it down bare and give it a scrub with a little washing up liquid in the water/ sponge scourer. It's often surprising how zolatone comes up, even...

I've had two of them, over 15 years or so. Just about the best tubing on the planet. It was top of the league in 1995 as the team issue was dropped for that year. Hence F1. There is some anomalies re: model and serial numbers but you are safe here. Its a non picky and tunable model. With 27.2mm...

He meant 1995.

Read through this.... https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/fork-crown-mounted-canti-brake-rocker-things.427942/ I mounted to reflector hole and had no issues. Don't over think it.

The LX will feel slightly better in build quality and setup will be a doddle. However, performance won't be huge in difference and, you won't care about scratches etc to the black gloss. Bang the accera on, still around since mid 90's. Keep them clean and well lubed, should do another 20 years...