Recent content by renowels

I have the same skewers and seat clamp on my Rocky, the purple has faded quite a bit though. Sweet looking bike. I made the mistake of letting my OEM forks go with the change to Manitou when I bought the bike new. I was offered the forks. Doh!

Today, there is not a lot of wiggle room in there. We retired then sold the house we used to live in and moved to this small duplex half near the ocean. It is about a third the space we had in the former location including this garage/laundry/storage/shed. The old, empty grange the last...

Our "shed" is our garage, or would be a garage if we didn't have 90% of the stuff, stacked in the space and drove an old Mini or MX5. It began life looking like this, This was the very beginnings of moving in after retirement. A few days and a large moving truck later, Some time has...

The RockShox fork is far too long and extended to around 550cm axel-crown. But, with the Wiggle-Wagon attached and my 7-year old grandson on the saddle, the handling is just slowed enough to where I am able to control the mess. The fork travel can be cranked down to closer to about 440cm which...

I've got one of these. A friend and I bought them back in the day when we were both in Denver. Mine got a first edition Manitou elastomer fork, he went with the OEM Synchros, but used an elastomer sprung stem. My fork decomposed to a soft epoxy internally and was replaced with a far too long...