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This just in from Neill, the man behind the GoatSurfer Retro MTB website. Planet Earth, November 2009 - GoatSurfer Retro MTB officially launches online. GoatSurfer Retro MTB has been started primarily to put something back into the RetroBike Community and that 'something' is the Pace Forks Timeline. The object of this is to have a chronological timeline with high quality pictures, model numbers and product info for all the Pace forks. This took a while to get together and is still missing some info so if you can help with any corrections, photo's or tech specs please PM me. Also located at GoatSurfer Retro MTB is a small vintage catalogue collection, a bunch of random MTB info that you might find interesting and links to the...

The November 2009 "Mid Range Special" Bike of The Month was one of our more controversial contests. A well deserved win went to 24pouces' 1988 Cannondale SM600. Nov 2009 BotM winner - 24pouces 1988 Cannondale SM600 The second spot was taken by Easy Rider's Dawes SE and third spot was shared between ElCani's Muddy Fox Seeker & Oneschnark's Progear STX 1995. Nov 2009 BotM 2nd and joint 3rd - Easy Rider's Dawes SE, ElCani's Muddy Fox Seeker & Oneschnark's Progear STX 1995 Don't forget to check out the December 2009 BoTM.

Cook Bros is alive according to the recently updated website. Look forward to seeing what they come out with.

Good to see the Cunningham Bikes website back up, an outstanding resource for all things 'ham.

The cool wall vote on GT has been closed. Following some complex statistical analysis it was decided GT would be 'OK'. Next up on the vote is Raleigh. Do David Baker, John Tomac, Andy Ruffell & Joop Zoetemelk make up for the Activator, Max and Lizard? From this vote onwards we have removed the 'OK' option. No more fence sitting ;-)

Just been sent a link (thanks to @cdnprairiedog on twitter) to a very interesting advert on craigslist. The advert reads as follows bicycle framebuilding jigs - $8000 I'm selling all my framebuilding jigs / fixtures / tubing / brazons. These are all the jigs and fixtures used to make the 4000+ handbuilt brodie frames over a 15 year period... a liitle bit of history you might say! I haven't built a bicycle frame in about 5 years, so it is time to move them on, hopefully to a good home where they will be used. The price is $8000 firm. Call Paul @ 604 xxx xxxx Could be a chance to own a piece of history or at least setup your own frame shop. More pictures and discussion in the forum here.

Updated classified rules here. New gold trader status trial here. Please check them out!

Looks like the latest coollwall vote is over already. The Yeti C-26 has been voted cool. The Yeti now joins the likes of Kona on the 'cool' side of the coolwall. So what next? Something which may divide opinion a little more. Our next vote is on GT Bicycles. Purveyors of the triple Triangle and of course long time sponsors of Hans 'No Way' Rey amongst other noteables. Should be an interesting vote hopefully, get involved here.

It's all go here at RB's mountain hideaway. Just tweaked the forum template slightly to be consistent with the rest of the site and include the site wide google search function. If you've any feedback please leave it here. If you'd like to use the old template (I know you all fear change) or any of the other templates guidance for that can be found here.

Thought it was time to bring back the retrobike cool wall . Every month or so we will take a vote on a bike, component, style, rider, whatever. You the people of retrobike will have to decide if the article is cool or not. This will then be recorded for ever on THE RETROBIKE COOL WALL. Previoulsy we have decided purple, kona(!), proflex(!!), manitou and fluo paint is cool. Biopace, gripshift and etto helmets have been judged uncool. First vote is fairly topical, check it out here! Will return to running a monthly poll for as long as inspiration and enthusiasm lasts.

Apparently US$12211 (around GBP£7322) . Click here for more details.

The October 2009 edition on Bike of The Month was perhaps the most varied and strongest contest to date. After some exceedingly close voting Onescnark's super clean Grove Innovations Titanium took a very well deserved victory. Oct 2009 BotM winner - Oneschnark's Grove Innovation Titanium The second and third spots were taken by 2wheels4ever's Nuke Proof Reactor and Ductape's Ibis Avion respectively. Oct 2009 BotM 2nd and 3rd - 2wheels4ever's Nuke Proof Reactor & Ductape's Ibis Avion Don't forget to check out the November 2009 BoTM.

New Rocky Mountain catalogue scans added to the retrobike archive (with thanks to Neill). Now have the complete catalogue line up from 1987 to 1998 online along with various articles and reviews.

To promote the ‘Rides, Meets, Events and Races’ forum of Retrobike and thus encourage more members to take part in the rides, Mark 'Sinnett177' has put together this rather unique competition where you have the chance to loan Adrian Timmis’ Team Raleigh Dyna-Tech for the day at a choice of events. The winner will also receive a retrobike t-shirt, hat and stickers. The winner of the competition will get to choose between two events in which to claim their prize: - The North West Area Ride of Farleton Fell and the Lonsdale Valley on November 21st - Take Adrians’ Ride from last year at the Annual Cannock Turkey Twizzler on December 27th So, here’s what you need to do to enter, simply stick the Retrobike logo in the most unusual...

"Can old steel cut in in the high mountains? Yes it can!" EdEdwards climbs the Col du Telegraphe on his Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra It's a question that's featured in a couple of magazines in recent months, road and off road - can older generation bikes still cut it? The reports have been both scientific (based on PowerTap readings etc.) and more on feel, and an interesting enough read although with the unsurprising conclusion that newer technology was better. I wasn't in a position to dispute this, but on a personal level, could a 42 year old on an 18 year old bike cut it on the classic Tour de France climbs in the Alps? The bike was an Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra in 7-11 team colours with the original Shimano 600 groupset; the only...

The "Does Retro Rock" article from What Mountain Bike Issue 100 is now online, thanks to the WMB Ed for allowing us to host this. The article features various site members along with a Guy Kesteven from WMB riding various old machines including a Pace RC-100, Raleigh Team Dynatech, AMP Research B4, Tushingham and Klein Attitude. The bikes were compared against their current favourite, a Giant Anthem. Read the article to find out who came on top!

BoTM September 2009 sees joint winners for only the second time ever. We present to you Defiant's TiMax and ragnar1984's Miyata Century