Recent content by Woz

@danson67 here can do that job.

Woz' 1999 Sunn Crosss - aka the "Bumble Bee". A fresh yet another re-build. The parts bin is now almost empty. It's a functional mixed back of Deore, Deore LX, Alivio, STX-RC, SRAM 9 speed cassette and chain with a novelty component called a FRONT DERAILLEUR ffs. Built for messing about...

This whole story with this bike and what you are doing deserves a place in some sort of Hall of Fame or asylum. It is true, or at least what I feel, is that we have reached peak replacement de-plenishment . The parts are still out there, but the might and energy to get them demands a lot if you...

^ 20 Km/h ? Seeing the gearing you use, you must be paying the local plod off. :wink:

My advice - "don't pull the trigger with any sense of urgency". Get your want list together. Check adverts local and neighbour countries. Buy the right thing. They are out there. And if you have to travel for the right thing, try to enjoy that too.

--' woould leave la chambre.

9continue fropm above) without some booze ta;lk.

If I was locked up in room with any individual and conversati[on did'nt go on proceed amicabaly

^ name of the game in any massed start event. Little to do with tyre width IMHO. BMX racing should put the nail in that theory coffin. One aspect while raving on about width, is larger outer circumference. Next to a 21c a 33c seemed massive in comparison - without being scientific almost a...

🤔 Another thing is that road racing as also evolved. Stronger teams today invariably means mopping up, compared to multi-talented / multi-disciplined strong riders who would go for broke when chance, instinct and strength allowed it. Everything from long alone break-aways to smaller group sprint...

:LOL: Let that be a lesson to any one that complains of "vague" braking with cantis.

^ Because on the track they were fast and still are. So surely on a good paved they are fast too?

Hell, just to add. All of the FR metrification of the UK BSA standards picks the rounded down figure.

Deleted the technical pre - and post technical stuff because I'm not in that zone. I am in the zone to say Noooooo to the above. Over and over we see the development of French bikes practically started with nothing on the bones and ride on a wing and prayer. For me the most fundamental was...

If your bike is 1999, it would have been made by TST just up the road from the Sandvik plant by mostly former Sandvik workers.