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Hi, if anyone’s got a spare/old short chainset, for the lesser-legged, please do give me a shout.

Hi, I'm going to replace seals, oil on a pair of Ron-Magura O24U forks from c.2001. There's no specific service manual for this model available on line, and only scant/inconsistent fugures for correct damping oil volume. In my searches I stumbled across this post re. servicing R-M Asgards...

My lad is banging on about wanting upgrade forks for his Vitus nucleus 26 (new this July ffs…too much poring over mbuk…) I think I’m going to gift him my fox talas forks for Xmas to square the circle of not crushing his desires whilst not spending money on replacing the front end of a brand...

Hi all, Might be ressurecting my c. 2001 Monoc TC2 for my eldest, who's sniffing around road biking... It's got Xenon 9speed, with a pretty racey/high cassette on the back - can't quite recall, but probably 23 bottom-end. I do know it nearly killed me climbing abround in the cambriains when I...

Making the switch from Vs - any cheapish 26" disc front wheel in Hampahire/nearby, then let me know!

https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/mountain-bike-suspension-forks-for-26inch-wheels/1452835353

Daft question from a suspension noddy - are these make specific/are there 'universal' ones? Got a pair of O24U Rond-Maguras (so cat's chance in hell of finding spares) with a knackered wiper/dust seal (looks like bent/indented in an earlier attempt at servicing/replacement... and thus a lower...

Looks pretty clean and original https://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/marin-eldridge-mountain-bike-early-90s-great-condition/1437932976

https://bikerumor.com/lee-cougan-rampage-innova-reshapes-xc-rear-suspension-with-short-travel-oil-damped-softail/ Carbon instead of lurid yellow rubber, mind...

Like a clown, I've lost the bolt and l-shaped washer for securing cable to left side of Shimano br-m600 v brake. Any suggestions for sourcing alternative/replacement? Cheers!

Gary Fisher aluminum frame c2000. Lots of water in BB shell after (very) wet ride. Safe/advisable to whip out the BB and drill a small drainage hole? Assume it's fine given under bracket cable routing guides on millions of other frames...! 3-4mm big enough?

Hi all, Thinking of doing this with my cousin this year: https://www.opencycling.com/coast-to-coast-in-a-day/ He'll be in a modern titanium road thing, and any of the likely candidates joining us have road machines with 700c hoops. We'll be roughly same fitness/speed on average over that...

Hi all, Cheeky one, but does anyone in the mid SO20s have a headset press I could borrow for a day or so in the new year? Sort of think I should just shell out for one, but I'm not a serial builder and do abysmally low miles due to limited time so never get through cassettes let alone main...

I know Gary Fisher's on record advocating bigger than 29er wheels, but this is quite the waggon: https://www.pinkbike.com/news/36pollici-announces-the-first-carbon-36er-mountain-bike.html

In my search to equal/better a '96 stumpy m2 as a woodland whip, I alighted on genesis era Fishers as prime candidates. Going by the catalogues over at vintage Trek I saw that I stand/sit right between small and medium sizing (5'7/5'8ish no-man's land). Usual quandary on which way to go...

Hi all, Bit of an odd on for you. Any reason not to put 1 1/8 spacers between fork crown and bottom headset race, to keep head angle same with a low a-c height fork for the frame. Instinctively it feels wrong/dangerous, but assuming enough mating surface on the crown, it also seems to be just...

Saturday night was first foray for a couple of weeks. Definitely takes more to get out the door this time of year, but after 5min in the filth the grins begin!

Book plug, but some interesting snippets in the interview. https://www.mbr.co.uk/news/the-world-according-to-gary-fisher-412557

Gawping at various Fat Chances for sale, struck me that top tube lengths are relatively long. Same for konas. Got me interested, both generally re. Different approaches of brands (and any relevance to the vaunted handling of Fats), and because I'm a short stem deviant and could do with finding...

Playing with crank length... Anything square taper, 104bcd ideal. 150/155 - 160 at a push of interest. Cheers!