Recent content by retrobate

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.

Buggered if I would even risk swinging a leg over a frame that sensitive to enviromental factors🤣

I dont know if it is worth every cent. If you are going to ride it to experience the fabled ride quality that chainsuck damage is a crack waiting to happen. Also, is that a crease below the bottle cage mount in the second pic?

M/L by the look of it, nasty chain suck damage. Best guess 1993? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fat-City-Cycles-Titanium-Fat-Chance-Vintage-MTB-Frame-/396069798356?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&customid=link&campid=5338793687&toolid=20001&mkevt=1