Recent content by zerogravitas

Absolute bargain.

I would also highly reccomend Roger Musson's book; https://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php I learnt to build wheels using it and also built the stand and tools he provides plans for. It is extremely clear and logically laid out. His spoke length calculator works well too. I am...

What kind of bike is it to be? All weather tourer? Or sunny days best roadie? If the latter I would definitely go for a semi-internal routing, not total through the headset nonsense, but just enough to clean up the lines. If it's going to get wet/muddy regularly then stick to external...

Plenty of CBs rolling around near me. This pale gold must has been very popular as I see it a lot.

Fantastic machine, with such great provenance! They still look like the future after all these years. Mektronic is such a cool bit of late 90s cyber-futuristic design. Do you have any photos of you riding it?

I hope you had a good jumble! Might even have spoken with you, although it's mostly road gear I was hunting for. There is so much to see I find as a punter you really have to 'get in the zone' to spot decent bits/bargains, otherwise you can just be overwhelmed by how much stuff there is! I got...

Nice one Phil 😁 👏

Wow. That is a LOT of stuff. Some lovely frames.

Me. :D It's a great event, so much treasure to rummage through and like-minded obsessives to chat with. 😉

Excellent information @Obi-Juan - thanks for sharing with us! I do some vinyl/stencil work on my restorations as well as professionally, but I had never come across the UV DTF process. Great to bear in mind for the future.

Interested in various models for a couple of builds; The R 970 SL (or the EQ version) in white or fluro yellow; The R 950SL in white The T 925 in red (other colours considered)! Let me know if you have any, thanks! 😊

+1 to road bikes on the front page. More content is always good!

The braking is pretty reasonable, new pads are obviously fitted (although I recall they are pretty inexpensive Clarks). Cables are new with slick stainless inners so minimal resistance which helps. Not the snappiest brakes I have in my collection of bikes but capable enough stoppers for any...

Here's my Viscount Aerospace Grand Sport, 1979 I think. My stripdown/repaint/rebuild thead here; https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/viscount-aerospace-but-which-one.487726/

Having spent a good portion of my tinkering time since the new year on my Viscount Grand Sport I can safely say this is the 'lightweight' fillet brazed Aerospace frameset that Viscount dressed up with various levels of kit to create different models in their Aerospace range (they did make many...