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Bit of a sleeper - the Jamis Dragon was a nice steel option and was (I think) 853. GT Karakoram as well, not sure if it has been mentioned. I think a bit more early 2000s than late 90s, but the Soma Groove was a nice alternative to the Salsa A'la Carte. The world had turned to aluminium, and...

1994 Haro Escher.

As a side issue, I had a friend decide he wanted to get into restoring bikes. He got as far as the BB and the damn thing wouldn't budge. Tried penetrating lubes, hitting the spanner with a mallet, all the usual things. Thankfully he didn't go nuts and damage the splines on the cup. I took a...

I worked in government for 25 years. Red tape is the strongest tape known to mankind, very hard to cut and gets tougher as it ages.

Yes. Taping the rims will protect the tubes from rubbing against the spoke holes in the rim bed, or depending on the design of the rim and length of the spoke, possibly rubbing against the end of the spoke. So yes, tape the rim. No. There is mail order - let someone else do the driving...

An uncle of mine was buried with 2 cans of beer. His wife said "that way he can share a cold one with someone when he gets there". Frankly, I'm not a religious person and I think they could have done better than the domestic swill he drank, but it's what he drank so who am I to argue. I have...

Extreme Hellenic... if the seatstays went any further forward it would almost be a Quadangle. :D

^ This. ^ This too. I don't care either way, both are valid ways to build a bike. I've done both. Build it how you want. It's parts. You put them on and you take them off and if you sell the bike the next person can do likewise. Don't like my build? I don't care, 20 minutes with the...

It can be whatever tugs on the heart, or the loins, on the day. I have my criteria, being what bike would I (most) like to have rocked up to the trail head on, normally something with the right stance, nice mix of parts, and all that. Sometimes, if it's something that has been saved from...

I got 4 seconds then muted the sound. I know it's not to be taken seriously and all that, but sheesh, I'd rather listen to a loop of "Save all your kisses for me" than that overexcited peanut. As for the bike, brilliant! As for the bouncy bike, its kind of a cross between an Alenax Transbar...

The wheelbase gives a stable ride.... no it doesn't... hang on, yes it does... wait... no it doesn't... hang on, yes it does... wait... [etc] Now what I want to see it this hybridised with a swing bike.

It has nice neighbours.

A big, beautiful factory, one of thousands of factories to open up here, and they contacted me and they said "Sir, please can we open our factory, your country is so hot right now and we want to be a part of it" and they are just one of many, one of thousands. Campy Deltas. I don't even know...

4 September and there is no clear winner for me. Even using my criteria of: - whether the first image blows my hair back in the first nanosecond of viewing it; and - is it a bike that I would, in the day, be as smug as smug gets rocking up to the trail head on it There is a lot of bikes to...

I'm also available to do balloon animals at kids parties.

24" was trialled on the rear of some DH bikes, I think Specialized was one brand. And because we have to take the benefits of 29er to the extreme, there are also 36" wheels now. And because we have to find a middle ground (like how 27.5 was a middle ground between 26 and 29) we also have...

Australia Post (Australia's government owned postal service) has also stopped shipping parcels to the USA. Article below explains why. Something to do with someone and something they did to send some stuff into chaos... or something...

It's okay, I'll show myself out.

Thanks. I enjoy that kind of stuff. Even better when it involves learning new skills and problem solving... and buying new tools. There's plenty of space to get the torch into the inside of the triangle, wasn't a problem. The way I did it was probably a lot of overthinking things, but that's...

Wow, an eBike rider with an inflated sense of capability? Who'd have thunk it? ...I'll show myself out.