Recent content by sherms

My syncros repro posts came in today. Wow Tom these things are top, top quality, amazing work! Highly recomended to anyone like me stupid with ocd looking for the closest thing to nos era correctness.

Syncros stem length?

Oh yeah I think I know the one, this guy.. https://www.ebay.com/str/ibazarocasion

Thats insane money, over here they sell for like the equivilant of 200-300 euro

Yeah all good, thanks for confirming. the seller ended up sending the post

Ok so my next question is in regard to chainring bolts. Do you know the bolt and spacer sizes? thanks in adavance

Perfect thanks!

Hi @neonsplatterfade, over 2 years late to the thread and looking to replace the bearings on my revolver cranks do you still have the model size/info for sealed cartridge bearings you used? Thanks

Picked up the fork today from my WA mailbox. Looks super clean in person. Thanks again Joseph 👌

Pm sent

Bumping this old thread: For the guys that have refurbed these, I’m hoping you can help with advice for reassembling after repaint. What’s the best way to align the blades in the crown? Was thinking of using a front wheel with bolt on skewer, but maybe there’s a better way? Thnx

The old tioga headset was missing the crown race, so whole thing is getting replaced with a shimano m736

I ended up trying to knock it off but it wasn‘t going anywhere. I found a guy localy selling an icetoolz cutting tool for cheap and gave it a whirl. The design of the tool doesn’t really work on forks with shorter steerers, so ended up having my wife press down on the top while I turned the...

I found a post of the same fork on here https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/diamond-back-axis-team-1991.454740/ looks like the user only made one post and hasn't been back, but you can just barely see the crown race seat in the photo and it (to me at least) doesn't look like theres the extra...

Thanks for the replies, do you think the added metal bit was to give the seat more surface for the crown race? Im tempted to take a flathead and a hammer to it, and see what’s underneath 😬 Bad idea?