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🤔🤔🤔 Does a build have to be complete before you start the fred? Just do it as you go along, take a picture here and there, and up load..... Maybe I've been doing it wrong 🤷‍♂️😂 You could spend it on the not-so-tropical island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. So far today we have had sun, rain...

Brilliant, what a fantastic finish you got on all those parts! And to think this isn't even your proper build, can't wait to see that! 🥳👍🧦🥕🪗🚀🪜✏️♻️🔈🏁💦🍆🍰 (I know you like your emoojies so I threw some in just because 🤷‍♂️)

There is a bit of a lesson to learn here: always very throughly check parts you buy, don’t leave them for so long that by the time you spot a problem it’s too late to do anything about it. Such as this V-brake arm: I did look for a replacement, but for various reasons I couldn’t justify the...

Ah, nice one, perfect, thank you very much 👍

If you are taking bits off some Shimano shifters, would it be possible to buy the cable barrel adjusters, please? I have some XTR ones, but annoyingly one adjuster is missing and the other is stripped. That is on the presumption the LX/other would fit XTR, if you or anyone else would happen to know?

Only just seen this thread, looks like you know what you want and you will make sure you get it. Good work. I know what you mean about a project dragging on, I have rebuilt my Land Rover 3 times over the last 12 years because I wasn't happy with compromises!

I would like the blue one please, it looks suitably distressed to match my frame. PM sent.

The Meguiar’s headlight restoring kit has a handy 3” hook and loop backing pad. The foam polishing pad that comes with it is actually quite good, and many car care/detailing shops (both online and the likes of Halfords etc) have a vast selection of pads in various hardness and styles depending...

Ah yes, £499.95 for the rigid option, available in Moon Blue. Thank you raidan73.

You sir, are nothing short of a legend. (Although I was already aware of the archive, but brain = sieve!). So I am reckoning it would be a 1998. If I remember right it was £500, which to a 15 year old boy in 1998 was a lot of money 😄

Afternoon all. Hopefully some of can help me piece some bits of information together as I begin to think about another bike I've always wanted, an Orange Clockwork. I remember some very specific things, and some other bits are a bit blurry, or just not there at all. I am trying to get down to a...

That Cannondale 😍 Nice selection of bikes. I have had a 456 (26"), a 45650b, and currently have an Inbred 26". There's something about the simple steel tubes.

As XTR M95X is the theme, given this is what I would have ultimately changed everything to, I can begin to bolt some bits on. I need to resist the temptation to fit any parts that would restrict fitting the new decals. There will however be one non-XTR item, the Bottom Bracket. The prices of...

I finally got five minutes to have a look at the better condition forks, and having stripped all the gubbings out of the steerer tube and a good inspection of everything, I am happy with how it works at that it will be safe to use. It is basically a quill style stem with a hefty bolt clamping it...

Nice, going to be following this! On the shock mount plate: run a straight edge across the top of it, and if it is distorted, check the other side too. It should be possible to paint the inside of the swingarm a different colour, it's more work and hassle for someone, but that doesn't make...

Yes! I had many dream bikes on the wall :LOL:

Very nice. I like the fact you are just getting out there and riding it, rather than having it sit and wait until it is perfect (like I end up doing!).

Nice! I will go and have a look at your thread.

I'm kind of reluctant to end up with one set of forks that require a CSU, lower leg repaint and decals, and therefore seals + bushes etc. Although ultimately that is what will end up happening, I'd just rather have all the bits first before opening them up. I'm going to have a tinker with the...

Fork decision time…. It was always going to be Rockshox SIDs, I know the LE came with Judy’s but I would have “upgraded” these to SIDs. This is my version of what the bike would have ended up like if I had bought it in ‘96 and then treated it to all the nice bits that came along later. I know...