Recent content by pigman

Never used V brakes, so treading carefully in saying this, but if the lever pulls all the way to the bars, that sounds like the 'calipers' need more than the standard cable pull

Mine is 34/50, 12/30. All runs good

Short or medium, it will work with a 30T cog. I'm using a short arm black one on a 12-30 no problem

Me too. Also liked the index thumbshifters. But hated those rapid fire push button levers

Wasnt SRAM a descendant of Sachs? They were already making chains (was sedis) and freewheels (Mallard) and we're into derailleurs in the 90s

Like that Koga

I'm going throw a bit of a spanner into the workings. Weren't some touring frames designed asymmetrically? To allow less wheel dish and hence a stronger rear wheel. And as Orbit were a smaller factory with a speciality being touring frames, maybe it was them

Could try the Tandem Club. Explain it's collection only. They are a national organisation. Also the cycling UK forum

Just re-read the post and you did say that it was a 5700 rear. Sorry, my bad

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If it's 5800, then it should be compatible with any 11 speed Shimano/SRAM cassette, MTB or road

That was the best colour for Alans. Don't know if the transfers are a genuine but a later design, but it would look so much better with the design where the letters are in yellow blocks

Lovely paint job and colour scheme

Indeed. It looks like there's a stop for a band-on lever(s) on the down tube. But then the cable stop on the seat stay. No other gear stops or tunnels Id say someone's had access to brazing kit and had a go at reconfiguring it's purpose

. Lots of dealers imported them (or bought them from an importer). They didn't look too bad, with forged ends and cut out lugs. I remember feeling inside one and it had seamed tubing and loads of powdery rust. We knew them as falk frames. I later bought one of these - a frame off a mate for...