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Re: I will take the Deore 7sp thumbies please!

Re: It is indeed, and no I won't be using it. Unfortunately this is the only seized bolt on the bike! I've got to drill off the head somehow, but the rivnut is spinning :-/ I want to remove it in one piece and hopefully I can without damaging the crud catcher!

Re: I require at least one Slayer - Angel of Death. This may however, be covered by the 'metal guys' who always seem to have a little corner in the forest and by now I should have bought at least one crate of beer for keeping me cheered up. I won't be doing it on anything approaching a retro...

My favourite tyre has and always will be the onza porcupine, I bought them with my own pocket money from Harry Halls in Manchester. The best tyre from the era was probably the Umma Gumma ones mentioned above, but as they lasted about three weeks in the hands of a teenager my dad refused to buy...

So here is the Pace I've acquired (it was a complete but here is some of the stripped highlights, wheels are just 2000's Deore on 317's etc) Stage 2 Titanium RC200 RC35 MX(C/D) - Rebound damper Grafton Joystix cranks one ti bolt the other was steel on a UN71 BB Pace 46/38/28 rings - Renthal...

Yep, this years TwentyFour12 - you know the unseasonably dry one!

Hmm quite clearly not on anything remotely like a retro bike but this is my ugly mug: Live and work in a bikeshop in Exeter, joined because A: I keep kidding myself that i'm going to build the RC200 I sold for beer and surfboards at uni. B: I've recently acquired a powder coated Kona frame...