Recent content by retrobate

Thoroughly enjoyed this. It was great to chat bike shit with some of you chaps, buy more crap valuable investments to clutter up my garage & perv some awsome bikes. Big thanks to Mike for setting this up. 👍

Not mine...

I'm also very interested in the frame set pending some size information. Can I join the que after Tangent please?

She's my wife now!

I will take this please. PM on the way.

I have done the same as August Bicycles and never had an issue. I took it a little further & also drilled 4mm holes every 90 degrees in the steer tube either side of the join & welded the sleeve to the steer tube at each of these holes so even if the butt joint failed there is a bit of a fail...

Torsional stiffness is where efficiency stems from, vertical stiffness or lack of is where comfort is. Sod the UCI, beam/cruciform is where it's at for carbon. Maybe then we can have both (and f'ing huge logos).

Always! And Trek, bastards the lot of them! Grumble grumble mutter.

Shame it's 1 & 1/4", kinda limits it's limited appeal.

Thanks but it is the front XC9000's that I want.

Thank goodness its collection only or I would be buying it just for the canties :LOL:

Cool:cool: Whats going on with the lower headset race!

Well thats annoying, I have a single lever looking for a partner but it's also a right hand side :rolleyes:

£102.00 These went for less than I thought they would, kind of wish I had bid now:rolleyes:

Looks to me that all the extra material (external butting) if forward of the chainstay bridge and the sleeve overlap is extremly unlikely to extend through the bent section.