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    What did the Surly 1x1 fork cost bitd?

    In what way? They are only going to be for sale on the used market now so they are worth whatever you're willing to pay which may or may not marry up with what the seller wants. RRP bitd seems to have very little to do with it. In my opinion if you're willing to pay £120 for a used, pretty...
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    What did the Surly 1x1 fork cost bitd?

    Seems pretty irrelevant what they sold for 23+ years ago.
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    Seat tube angle

    Agree with this. Would worry less about replicating a position from another bike and just try to get this one comfy.
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    Rim swap advice needed

    ^That. If you don't want to strip the current rims to measure the erd then if you can fairly accurately measure the current spokes, and the relevant bits of the hubs then you can likely reverse engineer the erd with spoke calculators. I'm going to take a stab in the dark though and say that...
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    Wot happened to fat bikes

    Girvin fork on a 1 1/8" headtube with a disc and a 29" wheel? Tell me more!
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    Hope Evo cranks. Fakery?

    Probably genuine, even a far east faker would have run a finishing pass to remove those tooling marks in the fluted bit 🤣
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    Marzocchi Z4 2001 replace steerer tube

    Everything's removable if you try hard enough.
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    Rare Pace forks?

    I've bought a few Pace forks over the years but never ended up using them much or keeping them long so I'm not an expert but I do know that I've never seen any of these gold stanchions looking anything other than utterly humped. Whatever they were coating them with must have been crap!
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    Modern fork made to look like a retro fork.....

    @Cloverleaf it wasn’t you that I bought these Pike/Judy DHs off was it?
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    Modern fork made to look like a retro fork.....

    Not done by me, rather I found it on ebay and bought it to go with my modded GT LTS. One thing worth mentioning was that the decals were the original Judy DH ones taken and enlarged in order to better fit the larger dimensions of the modern fork.
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    Fake Chinese bike parts

    No idea what the legal position is but looking at the morals of this very niche part of the counterfeit industry*, I'd struggle to believe that any of the people that have bought the £37 Paul Comp Klampers off AliX were ever going to spend 6 times that on the genuine ones, and similarly, if...
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    Worst/Funniest experiences buying used bikes?

    I once bought a bike in a public toilet. It was a Pashley, advertised on eBay local to me. I made the deal and got a postcode from the seller for collection. I turn up at a row of terraced houses/flats over businesses. I presumed the seller was in one of the houses or businesses so I ring to...
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    Help and Advice please - drilled rear stays found

    Posted that before looking again at the photo posted by @bikeworkshop. I think corrosion has been a significant factor in that failure which of course it could be in the op’s case too.
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    Help and Advice please - drilled rear stays found

    There’d be no reason for the builder to drill or cut into the stay. Loads of braze ons that mount on the surface which are less work to fit and less risk. Recently, bottle bosses are often repurposed as mudguard and rack eyes and these do require drilling a hole but the shape would be different...
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    Help and Advice please - drilled rear stays found

    PS, stays don’t look too have been drilled to me. Braze ons can just be attached on the surface of the tube which I’d say is the case here.
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    Help and Advice please - drilled rear stays found

    Looks like some braze ons were either removed intentionally or broke off, possibly due to an overloaded rack? I’d be confident there’s no structural impact. Is there bare metal or have they been painted over? I’d file the remaining braze off, it’s probably silver and will be relatively...
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    Anyone ever been satisfied with Cantilever brakes ?

    Nevermind the canti controversy, I'm taking umbrage at your misspelling of toeing in!
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    Alternative hose clips to zip ties

    In my experience, not for those double/triple ones. Also in my experience though and as others have stated, the clips tend to be a bit shit, a zip tie is much more secure.
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    Thomson

    I think it was when I bought the 27.2 dropper post that my opinion of Thomson changed. I bought it as a bit of retail therapy after not getting a job that would have been a pay cut. It was just on the market so was £400+ and it was the biggest waste of money I’ve ever made. All the chat was...
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    Thomson

    Not had any breakages but have seen a couple examples of their posts being undersized and i have a post that I cannot get to stop creaking.
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