Recent content by Pierre

@edward please let me know how you get on if you contact Rory! I haven't logged onto here for ages, I used to have a USE S.U.B. fork and loved it and still regret selling it. I did a search here out of nostalgia, found your post and would still be interested in getting hold of one! (and did...

As in the title, really. Customer has asked me to build him a rear wheel to mostly match his lovely Orange E6 with Judy SLs, mostly XT M739 / M750 groupset. He's got a purple Ringle hub on a Mavic X517 ceramic rim on the front. He's a heavier chap so I've got a 36h X618 ceramic rim that would...

Ace, thank you @gtturbo - it's given me some info to investigate. From a bit of searching, it looks like the Grafton Speed Sticks had a more rounded back behind the pedal threads, whereas the Toplines have that flattened shape. Graftons also look like they have a bolt-on spider, whereas the...

They look quite like Cook Bros, but they're fluted down the sides, not on the back. I've had them for absolutely ages, they came on an old Marin Team Titanium I bought that had had lots of stuff upgraded on it. They're beautiful, but the non-drive side crank cracked so I removed them. I'm...

Mods, please delete - I've posted this in the wrong forum. 🤦‍♂️

They look quite like Cook Bros, but they're fluted down the sides, not on the back. I've had them for absolutely ages, they came on an old Marin Team Titanium I bought that had had lots of stuff upgraded on it. They're beautiful, but the non-drive side crank cracked so I removed them. I'm...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304416087865 Full disclosure: this is my bike. It's lovely but I don't have enough excuses to ride it and I have too many bikes already. Original thread here: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/what-the-chuff-have-i-bought.222523/

I've got a C16R and managed to find a pair of Independent Fabrications forks that look a lot like the original (E16?) forks. They've got a threadless 1" steerer, which is relatively uncommon.

Agh - that's the bit I have no experience of, sorry. I'd imagine it requires a couple of specialist tools to remove and refit, and probably the right kind of epoxy, followed by specialist calibration equipment, which is probably why they charge so much for it. The article I took the axle magnet...

If you're getting iffy readings, it may well be that the torque sensors are on the blink - that's the bit that _can_ be expensive to remove and replace. The hub basically measures two things: the torque between the freehub body and the hub body, and the number of RPM the hub is doing. The...

I run Rat Race Cycles in Nunhead, London SE15 and we've serviced plenty of PowerTap hubs - HOWEVER we're definitely not an authorised service centre. That is to say, if it's the electronics / torque tube side of the hub that's problematic, it usually works out more economical to replace the hub...

There are loads! Have a look at the exhibitor lists on any of the last few years at bespoked.cc: Saffron, Feather, Beaumont, Quirk, Shand, August, Sturdy, and that's just off the top of my head... Curtis and Ted James are still building amazing mountain bikes, Lee Cooper is still building...

I'm in SE15, just the other side of Peckham Rye, and happy to help too if needed. Give me a shout if so. :)

A little more digging, both on Google and through my memory, makes me think they were on the Bontrager Race X Lite wheelset, among others: also https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/compo ... te-review/ ...the stripes were often on the other side of the hub from his name, IIRC.

Those stripes are Bontrager, I think, from the levels of wheels that tended to be fitted to mid-range alloy Trek road bikes (like a 1.7) around ten years ago.