Recent content by wesmamyke

Those are probably for a 24"/26" frame, very common on dirt jumping frames before everything got disc brakes. The frames typically had three holes on each side to allow two positions for the bracket.

The last time I heard anything about them was when they moved shop to New Hampshire I think. Long before that I worked at a dealer and we had a Indy Fab night with beer and such. The idea being to get people to pull the trigger on a custom order. I don't think we sold a single one and...

Shimano does not sell seals or pistons if I recall. Search ebay or any other site and after market seal/piston kits come up. All Shimano calipers are basically interchangeable as long as they take the same hose. You can replace them whatever is cheapest if you don't care about them being XT...

You do need the little knarp things to secure the cable as they go on kinda backwards to travel agents.

World class V-dapter.

I'm on team just start poking with something metal. Anywhere you poke through or it starts to crumble was done anyway.

Most of the stuff you see on here is pre buyout, or hand made early stuff. Brodie bikes has basically nothing to do with stuff built by Paul Brodie. At some point he sold the company and/or rights to use his name for the brand. Paul Brodie has a youtube channel, and I think he covers the...

Did Shimano stop squirting the giant blob of neon green grease on the spring when they got to 12spd stuff? There is usually so much of that stuff all over everything, almost like cosmoline or something.

This video from Butter Suspension is pretty good, even if you have no experience: If the bushings don't have any play you should be good with dust/oil seals. The foot nut o-ring is the only thing that can even leak besides the main oil seals. Dr Zocchi on this site sells the complete rebuilt...

Sharpie works surprisingly well if the black ano in question has had a chance to fade in sunlight a little bit. I usually blend it with my finger around the edges.

Oven cleaner will usually eat through colored anodizing, that is one way people strip parts to redo them or polish. Hard anodizing is another animal and the color is more a result of the process than a cosmetic thing, it is usually that dark gray color or a dull green.

I'm surprised the oven cleaner didn't at least eat the ano off the nipples if it was sprayed on there. The old school trick is super aggressive pads until the gray hard ano coating wears off, like something meant for Mavic ceramic rims, I've never really found it necessary. Messed around with...

They did make a proper blanking bolt for the M-arch canti boss. It's an odd shoulder bolt looking thing with a tiny section of threads on the end.

It's basically just a dust cover, and they almost always crack on LX and XT. I keep wondering if someone will 3D print some. The brakes function fine without them, but it leaves a weird lip sticking out. Somewhere I have an entire bin of XT/LX brakes with broken/missing caps. Even the ones...

I've pulled NOS examples out of the package that won't stay in gear. They are possibly the most finicky shifters ever created.