Recent content by Twozaskars

At least it's not a Mount Vision.

I feel that the more of a project something is, the more attractive it will look to the right person. Maybe I'm wrong.

2-wheeled equivalent of the Ford Capri relaunch.

Sell it exactly as it is, don't even clean it. That will help it appeal to someone.

PMC in Long Eaton did my CRM250 frame a couple of years ago and it came out really nice. Blasted it too. Only downside to powder coating is you've still got a decades-old frame corroding away inside it and you won't have any idea until it breaks.

Put them in a moneybag and shove up inside the steerer? Above the front of the seat rails with a few layers of electrical tape?(useful in itself) Inside the stem, if the front of it comes off to move the bars out of the way? Seat tube? Tape to the rear of the bottle cage?

Please report back with some photos of the process and end result.

8 years on here and I've never seen or heard this, just accepted that some are tighter than others and that's that. That groove must be shallow though? I wouldn't want to put a CK cup in my lathe and mess it up. I do have a Chris King, but in a Soul 😊

Was that the 99p one they stick in a Lightning?

+1 for the mighty GT Bravado. I'll finish mine one day.

I've never heard this, is this a thing people do? In such an application I'd simply find something that fits and do it right. Or you could end up with; Ruined frame Ruined headset Ruined face/teeth/hands etc Or a combination of any of those.

I reached the top when I finished my Lightning a few months ago. At that point I had 10 or so other frames I wanted to build, piles of forks, wheels etc, all waiting, constantly looking for bits or bikes to get the bits for them. I finished the GT after amassing the parts for almost 10 years. I...

I'm guessing you didn't get mine either.

Could you just shove a seat post down it? Push in, tap, twist, repeat.

Don't use steel wool, that's for sure. You impregnate the softer aluminium with fine particles of steel which causes corrosion or something, and the info you found is correct - don't do it. Autosol polish is good, but if you want the alu to shine you do need to remove the existing finish to get...