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Probably can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've had it in 35 years of mountain biking. Was it a biopace thing, because I ditched that shit as soon as I could due to it screwing up my knees. I wonder if narrow wide rings have also helped prevent incidence.

Chain rusted in place under tension. Probably worth the £35, but not any more than that.

Pretty much. Rare vintage item is more expensive than widely available modern item shocker. I suppose its possible you might get Chinese copies on Aliexpress, but I doubt it.

Agreed. Sounds like you're doing amazing. You're mobile, and doing a bit of walking about albeit with some effort - and needing plenty of rests. That's to be expected. The rest is essential for healing. Anaesthetic can take weeks to properly wear off. IIRC, one of the challenges of someone...

Most frame failures I've had - I've ridden home at least. The Ritchey logic frame - began to feel extremely floppy because the crack had propagated half way around the tube before I noticed it. I finished riding that sucker to work and back that day (about 10 miles). The Kirk with the failed...

Was a late convert to discs on account of not being able to get to work properly with my frame at the time. I think the frame mount wasn't faced properly. I wouldn't say rim brakes are easier to install, set up and maintain although it can vary. Probably on a par overall. Disc brakes have...

Weird, whenever I've made an offer - it's asked for payment details and immediately taken payment if the seller agrees.

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The kind of bike I'd have loved in my 20s, now I'm in my 50s and could afford it - it no longer feels like an appealing choice from a cool, fun or practical perspective. Probably doesn't help that I live on a hill - and have two nearly unused recumbents in the shed from indulging in similar...

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/8397130723668394 Definitely retro!

Glad you're doing well. That T-shirt is brilliant. A lot of your experience mirrors my own right hemicolectomy - except it was semi-emergency surgery. I had a bad weekend with what turned out to be an obstruction, rode to GP and they booked me into the hospital straight away - and a few hours...

Goretex Army/Navy/RAF surplus - the last two have the advantage of not usually being in camo patterns - but plain blues/blacks. Also look for secondhand stuff on eBay/vinted - sometimes goes for peanuts. Don't pay too much for your first bike. You might not like it. The stretched out racier...

Probably worth saying the trailer was attached to bunch of steel and aluminium frames without incident...(and the 4T failed after about 2 years of ownership, and pulling a trailer no more than a dozen times - again don't know for sure that was what caused it, but perhaps - and it never pulled a...

A fair chunk of my frames have failed. Saracen Sahara - a particularly hard OTB riding out of car park and not seeing a ditch. Head/down tube crack. Kirk Revolution - Snapped drop out then replacement frame one of the frame inserts debonded and fell out. Dawes Ranger - BB shell cracked Ritchey...

Probably means something like "we humbly present..." in the original language. Obviously, humble in the humble brag sense of the word :LOL:

No useful info to add. The dates suggested sound about right as I remember a local scally riding around on one superchuffed with himself and talking a good game about mountain biking (pretty sure he never made it off the council estate where we lived). They were for those who couldn't quite...

I used to regularly commute in London, and the state of the roads definitely contributed to one of my frames cracking.

"was so tempted to regrease..." but could not be arsed.

I tend to buy the puncture kits from Poundland or similar. Some can be surprisingly well stocked inc replacement valve cores.

Agreed. Even Shimano is no guarantee, although I've only had one go bad.