Recent content by joglo

unfortunately my Raleigh USA M450 as shown here in the thread a while ago https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/show-me-your-raleighs.161031/post-3286168 was providing me quite some pleasure in the last years Just the other day, i have noticed this 😢 I was about to look for another basis, as...

actually your shifter has a Gripshift logo, but it's in fact a Sachs "Powergrip", just rebranded after SRAM bought Sachs 1997. Those Powergrip had been used for instance back in time a lot on Cannondale bikes. The model "wavey" seems to be the most common used...

But a pretty similar 606-s is in the German 1995 brochure, also in the Archive, this was also in same burgundy color variant available as yours. 6xx-s series had been at this time CroMo bikes with suspension fork. Still don't think that they have already a suspension corrected geometry. That...

hi, never heard of Silver as brand nor the model name Krypton Comp. Googling doesn't work well neither. Maybe it's also good to know in what country or region you have bought this bike, as there had been a lot of local dealers with own rather no-name brands. In general with that Zoom stem and...

Wendler Power Brakes, sold also as Starbrake MT2 An interesting thing, and benefiting from the amplified power and modulation of the hydraulic system (vs. pure hand power) Just this brake never turned completely mature, certainly not as stress-less as using an Magura HS, which does work...

yes, sure, CrossMaxx are really cool, and maybe the introduction End of 96 was next to the dark XTR950 group even a bit like a ground breaker for making black bike components and full black wheel sets popular. But this happend with Saison 97 (and V-brakes, 2nd gen suspension forks and others...

sorry to start with rather a bit of an concern instead of an recommendation, black spokes haven't been popular, maybe not even existing before End of the Nineties. At least to me, there isn't any wheel set with black spokes which fit to a classic mountain bike. The rest sounds great. I would...

no, they have nothing in common other than the used material with RAM / Paul Hartmann It's a C4 Marte they had two other models too Marco Bonfanti was the owner and key person behind the Italian company C4. NJC stands for No Joint Construction. I think the offered frame at ebay has a...

They are from End of 90ties, weight-, quality- and pricing-wise, similar to other 3 or 4 spoke wheelsets. As TM-design was never a very popular brand, and the design with the curved spokes is a bit unique, not my picture, and also sorry to say, just I wouldn't combine such wheels with for...