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Re: Dave Hinde 653 - Frame renovations nearly complete! That’s a belter of a bike, my favourite shape for a MTB. What’s it weigh?

The pro tour 501 came with derailleur hanger, 57mm BB shell, 27.2mm seatpost, index gears, QR hubs, and all alloy gears/brakes/cranks/rims/hubs/seatpost where the banana had none of these things. This is why I bought the pro tour back in 88, and rejected the banana which was £60 cheaper, for...

I’ll have the wheels and chainset, i’ve Messaged you

Wish i’d Got them now! I fitted fizik tempo Matt silver perforated tapes, with gel pads, and adjusted the bar and lever height, nos Vittoria 700 x 20’s, and swapped the pedals skewers seat and post for some lighter ones I had laying around.

I’ve got the bike now, it’s a 1993 so it will be getting tan walls. I Use kitchen oxy stain remover spray to keep the white bar tapes clean, scrub hard!

Just bought this off eBay, graham weigh 653 with camp group, sti’s, Mavic wheels, great price, woohoo! Looks like late 90’s. I haven’t collected it yet so dunno the frame number. The bar tapes look the sh1ts, so what’s the most appropriate stuff to use? I was thinking white, cream or silver, to...

All the roads were muddy rutted tracks until about the 1890’s when tarmac was invented, that’s why trains came before cars/lorries because they could build flat railways, but not roads. So cycling would’ve been a pain, pre-tarmac! Ironically now we do have solid, flat, drained infrastructure in...

The Egyptians had some nice technology in the suspension and axle bearings of their chariots, look at Tutankamuns chariots with leather padding under the axle. The Romans’ must have had lube for their sex orgies lol

That is sex on wheels!

Humans have been around for a few hundred thousand years, and the bike was only invented 202 years ago? Just think of all the amazing inventive engineering minds of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, who all had the technology of metal frames, wheels, chariots, gears and pulleys, and not...

Another benefit to having a full group set, is there is less temptation to keep spending money on changing this or that! I’ve only just recently realised buying a full group is much cheaper than buying all the bits peace-meal

I have one bike with a matching group, the others are mix and match but all look and work good together, and i’ve Recently realised I have a full Shimano 105 group spread over 3 bikes, which was all acquired gradually! With so many cheap but half-decent ‘copy’ bike parts from China and Taiwan...

Re: Graham Weigh F&F 531 Competition Sold to me

Re: Also moving the back wheel further forward in the rear dropouts, helped to cure the problem