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I have had many moments over the past 10 years or so of thinking .. why doesn't the cut off date for Retro in RetroBike roll with the years? I mean, bikes in the early 2000s need a look in? Turner Burner? ..and... and... can't really think of much since it was all generic and poor and built down...

To shorten handlebars (it's traditional language but it's weird use of shorten...should be 'to narrow...') I have always hacksawed them. Freehand seems more accurate than using one of the guides. weirdly enough. But more recently I have been using an old but very precise Ridgid pipe cutter from...

well this is a turn up ... large stress crack and yet nearly 250 gbp. Grief...

A recent Pinkbike poll showed that grips were one of the first things which riders replaced on stock bikes. My own relationship with grips has been a bit up and down. In the 1990s I used foam grip a lot. They really helped with trail chatter. After a full two or three days' riding on the South...

There's been something weird going on with tyres for quite a while. In the far far distant mtb past (around 1992) I used to look at a rear Ground Control and see that a number of knobs were missing and the rest were worn to almost nothing, and the remainder were cracked and broken. Time for a...

Cambridge being Cambridge I stepped into a quiet residential road only to have a bike sweep swiftly around the corner and narrowly miss me. Normal stuff. But it was a very interesting ancient 1950s thing. With VERY slack forks. Lots and lots of forward sweep. And then in the opposite direction...

Well, the workshop has yielded up this collection of type 3 Judy springs - all x soft or soft. Then two medium Speed Springs - the two long ones which are a straight replacement for the full elastomer stack. . These usually seem to be up for around 45.00 plus postage. So....25 gbp including...

Found a box of Judy springs and boots in the store. 2x new unused NOS XC Judy boots 10.00 gbp PM? Thanks

Slightly weird one ... wind back to 1994 ... building an Amp B3 and I buy a range of stems to go on it - including this I-beam. Which in the end didn’t get used. For some reason it gets a Mint Sauce sticker stuck on one side ‘ignorant amongst it all’ - this is NOS snuggling in its original brown...

1986. I am in Action Bikes in Brighton. I am currently on a stupidly large Dawes Ranger. So...having already managed to save and buy my first house (21,000k..!!), I am looklng at a teal blue M600 Cannondale - rubbish Suntour groupset. Next to it is a Cinelli Columbus tubed MTB with XT groupset...

No decent instruction sequence for full bearing service on Halo Supadrive MT hubs so here is the inside line. Things needed: Soft mallet 15mm long Alloy drift - piece of 5-8mm alloy rod will be fine 17mm cone spanners Internal circlip pliers Weeny long thin screwdriver Bearing puller set or...

Way back in ... well, 2019 ... I was fortunate to get a Ragley Mmmbop on here, just the frame and some Manitou Mattoc forks. The forks are a minority game, not many people run anything other than RS or Fox these days. Yes, you can buy Ohlins, DVO, X-Fusion, TRP but spares tend to be a pain and...

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