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Time to go.... Two perfect tapered steerer 26 inch forks - fully serviced. Perfect stanchions. 15mm axles 100mm spacing. Both long steerers at 195mm: Sektor originally 140mm but have 150mm airshaft 80gbp plus postage Revelation 140mm 80gbp plus postage On One rigid 26 inch forks straight one...

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Just really working through bearing problems and solutions. Amongst the many bearing-related issues I have been engaged with is the conundrum of black oxide bearings moving in the bearing seats. I have always used ss bearings and have only had a few instances of VERY neglected bearings moving...

This is the first instalment of a potential solution to a problem. I picked up a very high end carbon FS frame for Not Very Much - an object which had been much neglected, was missing large amounts of hardware and needed a new rear suspension element. I have overhauled our existing frames and...

...well the thread on lubes got me thinking and reading again... Lithium grease has been pretty ubiquitous due to cheap supply of lithium and excellent properties over calcium grease. Well cheap supply has gone, due to electric car production demand for lithium. So back to calcium based...

Wide puppies for COTIC, Stanton etc Well, anyone who knows the FR570 rims knows that this is a bombproof but lightweight enduro setup - these were built with no expense spared - red alloy nipples, DT aero spokes. Rims are 30mm internal which means BIG tyres are possible on frames with...

It’s an old joke. But regrettably a reality of modern mountain biking. Read the comments….argh A tiny tiny refund? And a 50lb bike which now just sits there. Yikes. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/canyon-offer-partial-refund-to-owners-of-emtbs-affected-by-battery-safety-issues.html

I freaked out everyone in the 1990s when I insisted on having 30% sag on my ProFlex 853, Amp B3 and Pace forks on my hardtails. 'It's a waste of travel' they said. 'there's no reason why...' they said. When I ordered soft elastomers for the ProFlex, Magic Cycles genuinely said 'you don't need...

Disc brakes (Hope) Decent forks (RS, Cane C) Dropper posts (X Fusion, One Up) Those are the big things... But the small thing I guess for me is the press-in bearing. I use to spend hours cleaning out a loose ball headset so that it was clean and ungrimy, and then hours of uncertainty in...

There are two types of repair vortices. The 'why did I do that' class 1 vortex Starting to do something simple which turns into a nightmare. Example - decide to replace bottle cage but find that the allen bolt undoes by one turn, then jams, and then the inset nut starts to turn and then you...

Amongst the many bikes I have built and owned over the past decades, there are strange standouts...not the top end esoterica months-of-work builds, but the accidental ones. A C-16R which caught my eye at 5pm in the Argus newspaper,. Half an hour later I was riding it home. Silver, STX, onza...

Amongst the ‘to be built’ frames hanging in the workshop I have a gorgeous late 853 COTIC SIMPLE which was to be for the Grom but he has shot up and it will no longer fit him. The COTIC 853 frames need no introduction really, they are truly classic frames which ride wonderfully. So light, so...

Last week, a friend emphasised how much he had got into chain waxing. He took me through what he did, using an approach like this: https://zerofrictioncycling.com.au/wax-instructions/ I knew I had to give my chain a refresh, since it has done 4 years in the grind paste which is Thetford. So I...

I need a 68/73BB axle on purple (!) Hope 165 crankset which currently has an 83mm axle in it. No problem thought I, buy a new 133.5 axle from Tredz, buy a tool to go with it to remove the 'Do Not Remove' cap - and Rob's Your Lobster. When the tool arrives I undo the Do Not Undo cap and off it...

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Well the latest video out of the Rampage judging fiasco has tried to justify the mess which the event has become. I was always very sceptical of Rampage since although it was a showcase of extraordinary skills and deep commitment of the diggers, it seemed to be pushing elite athletes into crazy...

Well just back from walking amongst the glaciers in the East of Iceland….mmmm….lovely….and walking through the old town in Reykjavik and saw …. THIS!!! Secured by a bike lock made of cheese.

Formula 1 for years used a tired excuse of 'trickle down technology' to justify turning hydrocarbons into a blur of passing colour and vast amounts of noise. But then became so secretive and rule-breaking that everything moved further and further from day to day reality - with scant benefit for...

I've always found setting up forks to be a bit of an elusive dark art... At one level I understand low speed and high speed compression and rebound and spring rate and tokens and at another I find myself somewhat randomly clicking this and that and scratching my head as to whether I am...