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Missed XC compes (with an “e”)! Noooooooooooooooooooooo! 😭 (If the buyer wants to turn a quick profit, let me know)

In building a couple of wheelsets, I’ve noticed the different online spoke calculators have their pros and cons/goods and gaps; would be good to have a sticky with a list of links and which iones have data on which popular retro gear.

Now my Marin has found a good home, the bullmoose cockpit is available. Nitto bullmooseses; these have a 1 1/8 clamp, here attached to a 1” quill adapter, so will fit your 80s threaded rig. DX 6 spd/friction thumbies MT 60 4 finger brake levers Proper high density foam grips (grabbons?) Also...

Uppsville. Perfect for those off road camping adventures you’ve been promising to do.

Recommended. Good stuff, fast, and well packed.

Yep, 25.4 and 110. I’ll PM a pic and details.

I've got one - 'new' in packet, opened but not used. they have these at HubJub at the mo for a v. competitive £39, so that's prolly your best bet. Or you can have mine for 34 posted (includes paypal fees) and save a few quid.

New projects mean it’s time to make some space, so up for grabs is this sweet old Marin. I’m listing the frame and fork, but can also include some other parts if people want them. Let me know which bits and I’ll price. *No components are for sale separately to the frame though* *Dirt Drop bars...

Brooks where weight doesn’t matter, SanMarco titanio elsewhere.

They look so cool, are light and are built nicely. I have a disorder where I buy them, realise they are not double sided and are quite thick; keep them in a drawer for a year and sell them for what I paid. Keeps me off the streets …. How much for yours? (Xc compe double sided are the real deal)

This could work too. Bristol bike jumble

Hope you find a donor, if not, could you grab one off the bay care of Retrobike? I’ll chip £20 towards it. Eg Scott Gents

Great looking trail (love the “mount doom” 2nd photo 😎) Blackthorn out and lots of verdant trail side greens (comfrey?) whereabouts is it?

Aluminium frame (well, unless it’s a Cannondale …) Anodising (well, unless it’s by Nitto …) Coloured tyres (well, unless they’re amber coloured… ) Small sloping frames (well, unless it’s an ex race bike …) Suspension (well ………) Suspension.

ProCaliber? PCs were tig welded. 86 and 88 catalogues are in the archive, the seat stay arrangement looks pre 88.

Very cool.

Shwing! (& room to grow into, too)

Genuine question: why has it got be a 26” wheeler? Would a relaxed angle 700c tourer frame with canti mounts not be an option? Loads of good fat 700 tyres around these days and lots of old skool quality lugged steel frames going cheap.

Suntour derailleurs showed the way - still some of the best ever cycling engineering; and their ratchet friction shifters are a joy to use and mechanic. But the real step change happened when shimano focused on cassettes. My first bike (1988) had uniglide, which now languishes in the...

I’ve got it down to about 6 bikes now, 4 of which are prolly ‘needed’ fast road bike, tourer, bike transport and MTB. “The one” keeper would be bike transport. Got it dialled how I need it after lots of trial and error.