Recent content by nodding dog

Just bought the shiniest M730 rear mech I've ever seen from Tootyred. Good comms, excellent price, another happy buyer. Cheers! ND

Yeah, generally just on the front axle. They're to stop the front wheel falling out if the quick release or wheel nuts aren't tight enough.

They look like they might be the safety washers for the front axle.

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Still available? (The rear mech, not the lemon :))

Bikes dragged out of a damp shed and described as 'genuine barn find'. "Oh really? Under a dust sheet next to the '54 D-Type was it?" Pull the other one. As for features, any frame with an unfeasibly high top tube. I know early MTBs had a lot of 'road bike DNA' but that's no excuse to make a...

I think the dropout may have been made by Hope which is why the anodising is a different shade. I've got one knocking around in the spares box from when I ran Hope C2s on my F5. It takes the No.1 caliper (err, I think!). It's whichever caliper has the mounting hole to the right of the piston...

Tioga cast aluminium hanger with cinch bolt... https://is.gd/ReIwmd Basically the same as a hangdoggy but without the Syncros tax.

Seller reckons it's a 1" head tube which rules out F6 and later. Round seat tube with round seat clamp rules out F3 and earlier. Normally the frame number would include the F number but that one looks a bit 'non-standard'.

Just swap the seatstays for Manitous. Doug Bradbury got away with it for ages!

Yeah, Tootyred makes a good point. I'd stick with acrylic lacquer or anything that doesn't contain isocyanates. '2K in a can' is cheap and easy but there's no filter on the market that will stop isocyanates. If you want to do it safely you need an air-fed hood which sort of defeats the point...

The bike shop under the arches was Cykik. I got my Gary Fisher Montare from there in summer '92. The guys who ran it were really helpful and I'd frequently drop in for a natter and to see what was new in the cabinet of exotica. The Mert Lawwill-designed RS1 eventually morphed into the Yeti DH6...

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1992 pre-dates the P7 so might be a Prestige maybe? It's got the triangular hole in the rear canti stop which I think only Prestiges had. Might have gone back for a respray after Orange had ran out of Prestige decals.

Stronglight No Pogo... https://www.ebay.com/itm/284239775142