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Maybe the mechanics torque the bars depending on road conditions🤣

Interesting to note when the TdF riders piled up time after time, they just twisted their bars straight with their hands and knees, then rode away.

Leaving the bar in the stem makes pulling easier. Damage in the steerer, and sometimes grit or corrosion, digs circular grooves in the stem, making rotation easy but extraction a challenge. but if it turns, it'll come out.🤞 Just a case of getting purchase

Is the stem rotating stiffly without pulling up at all? (I don't like Copper slip as you're introducing another metal - and it's toxic, but many love it)

Next you've got to get "the outfit" Iirc fsr riders spent a much on their clothes as their bikes😉

Those flouro colours are prone to serious lightening - I assume its uv exposure but might just be time.

It's over the stem mountain, beyond the lefthand crank mine

I'll pm you tomorrow when i check i can still find it in the seatpost lake👍

Post a photo! If there's any bolt projecting, you can mig a nut on the end of it, (inside the nut) and then unbolt it. Professionally, it's a write-off as any removal cost will exceed the value of the part.

And you are right Chains don't stretch. https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/workshop/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-replace-your-bicycle-chain It's just that's what we call roller/pin wear

We do what we can And constantly improve. If you want tip top performance, your environmental credentials must suffer. I glue my shoes back together 2 or 3 times before moving them on, by which time the soles are pretty worn through. I admit, they don't look great by then, they might be...

Or buy a good condition 8 or 9 speed xt off ebay?

Knobbly tyres lose effectiveness with loss of the sharp edges, so often the tyre looks very knobbly but no longer performs anything like the new one. Many riders will fit new at this point, and the tyres don't really have a part-worn market. Mountain biking can be very environmentally...

It's well worth £100 if you want it. The rear mech, avid sds and fork take you way over that if you needed to recoup your cost. But older full sus doesn't have many admirers... hence the price.

It's an interesting idea, but there's a challenge: It's multi- dimensional That makes the order very subjective. Some premium brands are more nichey or cliquey than others. I won't flag them up here, as it always causes offence to the fans😉, but having worked on tens of thousands of...

But better than a horse in all these respects, no need to feed it, no shit to shovel.

Ride- wise, it's more than a lot like a bicycle. They are comparatively heavy, and slow cadence was normal. Very slow handling, pi55-poor brake. As a rule on early steel crescent Rims, the spokes are steel, straight pull, Threaded into the hub flange, head in the rim. The development of...

I'm currently making it rideable, but it will probably end in a museum. Imagine how fast you could ride on this in 1886 compared to your sporty mate on his silly old High Bicycle! The Aero TT piece of its day, but with better handling, comfort and braking to boot. The greatest leap forward...

Gumwalls are over-represented in the retrobike world.😉 Good on ya!

In the chepstow town museum, they have a few exhibits from the local cycling club: Including a couple of photographs from around 1886 when a few of the local cyclists had bought themselves the latest thing...a safety! In this image they are at the beachley coffee house, near where the Aust...