Recent content by novocaine

just add heat. :)

Agreed. 😁

Don't see how it's any different to a daft car or motorbike though. It's just people doing silly things and finding out.

Poor ants, ants having feelings too you know. Just because you can't hear the tiny screams as they get boiled alive....... no wait, aunts, aunts having feelings. Sorry for the confusion. Carry on. 😁

I want seasonal variation and I want it now. :P

so it's not automatic? :(

Automatic seasonal geometrical correction system.

sorry but it's gone, left the building, is no more. The flouro pigment/dye is a floroscein (C20H12O5) and oxyzole yellow mix that's encapsulated in resin. over the years the encapsulation breaks down due to UV (shitty enamel or early 2k stuff) and the dye oxidizes to produce CO2 and H2O. you...

it's one of them @grantoury and @Ingola tandams. you'll need a new back seat though Serge. :) And the Crank might need to god down to the lower BB Jan.

2008 to 2010 27.5 come in followed swiftly by 29. But 36 lived on strong till well into the 10s. Inbred was still 26 till 2016-18 ish.

you are correct. although it did continue on in the market till around 2010 (cheap end and those builders who liked too).

Malt 2 apparently. picture taken from here. https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/2-frames-merlin-malt-2-trek-fuel-90-slr.495248/ I remember it from a jump frame they made that looked like the above subway but wasn't as geometrically nice.

oh, also, Merlin was using them too on the Malt.

same dropout used on barracuda's from 2000ish. thread here about serial numbers for barracuda which yours sort of fits. https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/barracuda-uk-frame-serial-numbers.487328/ normally AM and on the seat tube. agree with previous, carrera or baracuda or brand X...

the tube welds look like machine welds, they are so consistent. only when you look at the gusset welds do they start to look hand done as they are a straight run and the tail is a bit hot. You can even see the start and overlap of the finish on the head to top tube, almost perfect puddle overlap...