Recent content by PatM

Ooh... Nice find. I had an Alu Pro in a pearlescent white - beautiful. I loved that bike until it got nicked... If I remember correctly it had Alu forks - But the sport had steel?

I'll tell you what it wasn't... My old yellow and white Dawes Ascent... eeurgghh...

Wow... Looks very tidy... Not much scope to adjust the seatpost!

I had the same... I LOVED that bike until it got pinched from a youth hostel bike store (read garden shed). I was Gutted. I'd love one again...

Cheers guys... Top advice. :)

Hi y'all, Bit of a strange question: What's a good "modern retro" brake pad to be running in my old Dia Compe cantis on my '93 Clockwork? Retro looks with modern power - does such a thing exist? Cheers :D Pat.

Oooh.... That's nice. Very nice. I always fancied them as they looked less spindly, and more aggressive than a lot of their counterparts.

yeah... I promise its 26" :lol: Just a bad angle when I took the picture, and a modern 2.2" balloon on a skinny rim...

... but the forks are obviously getting som TLC. Some of those rubber wine corks should do the trick...

Why? :shock: It still works... :lol: I don't think I have the patience to spend all the time and money on that, and then be too afraid to use it. It'll just get sympathetic preventative maintenance. And, yes, I know those tyres look shite on it, but the ancient Panaracers on it were...

Here's mine...

Well ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you my Orange Clockwork in all her slightly shabby well-used glory! Originally born out of my wrecked Alpinestars Almega-DX after I sold the frame with its shagged head tube to a "mate" and kept the rest :-) Current spec is something like...

Nice... Nice... bathed in a sea of purple goodness...