Recent content by Northernlight

Great find to get both! I have one of these in 18” flavour and it’s such a great steed in one of the most iconic GT paint schemes (in my slightly biased opinion 😜). They are getting rare too, I keep an eye out on eBay etc and seems to be only about 1 a year turn up. Good to have the original...

Tried with a local specialist welder and the ti was evidently so thin/brittle that it just made it worse. Only option would be to put a new rear end on. Evidently a weakness of older ti frame design not to reinforce at the point of high stress and chain strike. Shame as the old Sandvik/TST...

This has been my trusty steed for about 8 years traversing SW London. Awesome ride and would have been my forever commuter until I discovered a hairline crack in the drive side stay recently. Gutted!

My ‘91 Avalanche is 27mm so sounds like they might have increased the size between the two years.

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Looking for something for 26” wheels in circa 19” size with 1 1/8 headset and suitable for disc brake. Preferably a decent steel (853, Prestige, True Temper etc) and decent condition as I’d like to get up and running rather than a project. Anyone got anything that might fit the bill? Thanks

My Daktari white ‘91 Avalanche that I’ve still not quite got round to finishing!

My trusty old Sandvik era Cove hummer developed a hairline crack on the chainstay and it’s not repairable so sadly it’s having to be retired to the garage wall. I’ve now got a bike’s worth of parts ready for an early 2000s build (disc brakes rather than V) and I’m wondering if anyone has a half...

Thanks all, I’ll drop Dan a line!

I was giving my trusty old Sandvik era cove hummer a clean up this afternoon (it’s my daily commuter) and was alarmed to see what looks like a hairline crack on the outside of the drive side chainstay, opposite the bridge near the bottom bracket. I’ve taken a few photos and studied as best I...

Awesome, thanks Ant - a great distraction from a grumpy toddler and a wailing infant!

HNY all. Count me in if not too late…

Thanks for all the positive comments! I really enjoyed the youthful nostalgia that this project brought back and it certainly whetted the appetite for taking on something similar again. As is often the way though, life gets in the way and arrival of a little ‘un recently has meant that I’ve...

I’d be interested in the canti’s and U brake if you could let me have a price when you get to selling them. Ta