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Yes. And no - while riding my very light and quite distinctive single speed conversion Ti Dynatech Ti Ugli fork combination - bright blue with white wall tyres and white Flite Ti saddle 8) Riding local trail round Ladybower mid week last year and a couple of chaps stopped for a natter, they...

My retro commuter will be in need of a new transmission soon, just ordered a pile of £4 KMC Z8 chains from Wiggle. Already got an 8 speed rear wheel / cassette and I have some shifters somewhere - but I am hoping the current STX SE rear mech (*not* STX RC which would probably work fine) can cope...

mattr you are right about the aggressive pricing from CRC, through a bike charity I volunteer with I have access to buying at trade price - mostly CRC has historically been cheaper, sometimes a lot cheaper! Given CRC stock of some brands seems to be disappearing (Selle SMP comes to my mind) and...

Re: Re: I get your point about some car lights, bit I rarely have that problem, Maybe its the bike riders round here but loads of them run these super bright blunderbuss's - which make it really hard to judge their location / speed cos you cant even look in their direction The inability to...

One of my bug bears is cyclists who think really bright lights are actually a safety device not a menace on the roads - mostly the problem is more to do with beam shape than brightness per se, I must get dazzled by other cyclists half a dozen times a day now and don't wish to join them So I am...

helps a lot thanks Tredz list a 4mm Halo one for £3 delivered, off to order one now

I know this will have been asked before but I am still confused - possibly by my own LBS Got a new 8 speed wheel and need to pop the 7 speed cassette off my old wheel on to it. Google confused me so I went to my local shop and they sold me a 1.85mm flat spacer and said that was right. I thought...

Has anyone seen stuff go out of stock and come back in? I am assuming they are culling their inventory *and* dumping product lines, but maybe the are just sorting out their supply chain and I am only noticing the stuff I am wanting to buy currently

Been on their website and all over google but can seem to find the answer, they do A1, A2, A4, C4 etc - what gives?

Since Wiggle bought out CRC I have to say I haven't really noticed anything bad happen - until recently. Quite a few items I have been after seem to go out of stock and stay out of stock. eg SMP saddles, Schwalbe tyres as well as service items / tools like grease guns As a business person...

thanks folks, seems to have built up fine with new cones and balls - though one side of the hub only wanted 8 balls and the other 9 . . . Its a single speed hub, the 8 ball side was the fixed sprocket side and 9 ball was freewheel side - assume that's right? I also assume the cones we not...

I have picked up an old steel frame that is mostly in great condition - but - there's always a but, the metal band welded to the top of the seat tube has started to come away. It measures 28.6 OD so my plan is to "remove it" and use a standard external clamp I am a little unsure how to go about...

We meet twice a week. On Mondays it tends to be really busy as we have service users collecting bikes, returning for repairs etc. Thursday is just fixing bikes and has a more relaxed vibe, we sometimes even have the radio on :)

thanks slackboy, dropped you a pm

Re: Re: If only they were just mucky - while we do very occasionally get a nice, loved bike donated many are well used / abused, have been left outside, never maintained, sometimes vandalised etc. Often way beyond some of the "usual" methods of refurbishing - while my recently fitted NOS STX...

Been servicing the wheels on an old Archie Wilkinson I picked up recently. Rear single speed axle (10mm diam) cones were starting to pit so trotted off to LBS who sold me a whole 10mm x 175mm axle. Swapped over the cones and reused everything else but the cones look to be a different shape at...

First parcel arrived earlier this week - thank you :) - not sure who sent it as they didnt put in a name/note but we have 2 very serviceable rear mechs and a Shimano 105 front mech

Re: Re: Nostalgia Blokes in their 50s remember their first Raleigh Arena (which was a pretty average bike in its day) and have the money to pay £100+ for an old one, which drives everything else up. Put a 531 badge on a bike of that era and it will sell for more than it did new My folks had...

Like cycle bargains thanks for sharing, less so the others out there. Hopefully in time these places will get better but for me the one I find most useful is http://www.bikebargains.co.uk/ Picked up a pile of Brev M saddles for £2.50 ea and Brev M flat pedals for £2 ea from there recently -...

We have "1997 and before" or "1998 and after", so I guess from an Admins point of view the easiest thing to do would be to create 1998 to 2007 section out of the current 1998+ and add a new 2007+ FWIW I think its fine as it is, 2007 is only 10 years ago, that's not retro in my book - but then...