Recent content by markoc

Shouldn't take much, though the forks could be toast. Strip, inspect, regrease and reassemble - replacing consumables. Didn't see that seatpost arrangement first time around (!) - wouldn't have been how I did it.

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/wanted-merlin-cycles-adverts-late-90s.424266/ Advert scans in this thread - some frames were made by Kinesis. That rifled top tube looks cool

Crikey thats nice. Good luck with the sale.

I'd also go Fuquay - rare and steel. Lovely. Only problem is after much deliberation you'll go down an absolute rabbit hole trying to find some Gumbo forks*. By the time you've removed the disc tab, added canti bosses and resprayed (along with the inevitable and by that time now acquired...

Browning Need more pics of the fork.... thats a stunner!!

It's the rigid version of the Manitou FRS. Good enough for the front, then good enough for the back.

I can measure mine today, and have a “large” and “medium” - Alternatively the catalogues are on here somewhere.

STX RC really was a fabulous and very under-rated groupset. Bit of a game changer in my opinion, and the chromica finish was far classier than the price point deserved. P7's and their nickel finish do pick up surface rust (even the painted ones with stone dings) but if you're prepared to put...

We’re hardy folk is RB’ers. We’ll be fine. After all we survived the 90’s when most of us had a very bad bout of purple-itis. Some have never fully recovered.

In the meantime, and on the basis that it must all be worth bobbins now, I’ll gladly give a free home to any RC31’s that are currently endangering the lives of our RB community. And Super V Ravens too. Lots of them please. Nasty old things…

Proper score for a tenner. Should clean up a treat. I have a bit of a P7 problem, in as much as that I have too many of them!

Do you have the frame - if so has it got a serial number? There'll be a Kona-head somewhere who can possibly interpret it. Lots of the old catalogues online here and on issu to back ref and check.

I'm not convinced it's a Kona tbh (watch me get proven wrong!) Rear mech hanger doesn't look right, and the headtube is way long with funky geometry when you compare to the seat-tube. Welds don't look great either but I'm not an alu kona expert (my knowledge is limited to the 1997 Lava Dome...

Is that a radially spoked rear? Maybe I've been living in a cave, but I've never seen that before. Fronts, yes - rears no. Lovely bike BTW

Some nice bits, but £700 I lolled into my cornflakes