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That’s the great thing with titanium, you don’t need one for these smaller anodizations :) You just attach the + wire to the frame and cover the - wire with for example some makeup cleaner pad, cotton ball or similar that’s dipped in electrolyte (for me TSP mixed in water) and after that you...

Didn’t want to go for some expensive power unit so got six 9V batteries and a cheap voltage/current modulator that allowed me to adjust the voltage between 0-50V. There’s a lot of good advices on this on the web but all of them were with only batteries (hard to adjust voltage) or with those...

Here’s some of the componentry I’m planning on using for it! -Turkka

Hi! Most of my projects include finding some cheap and crappy individuals with some potential and bringing them back to life as well as I can. This though is something totally different! I ran into this beat up Lightning frame here in Finland and got it with a good price. Due to the marks and...

Re: Loving the colors on that Yates! 8)

I opened this month's nominations thread for the first time now and thought that oh man, there's like 11 pages of nominees here already, can't wait to see them! Well, 11 pages later.. :facepalm: :lol: Ok, so here's my contribution for derailing the important discussions back to boring bike...

Don't have a photo of the whole bike before everything, but here's photos of the wheels and the saddle/seatpost condition in the start. The paint itself was really dull, but the polishing wax gave eventually some significant shine to the lacquer. -Turkka

Hello! This individual I found from it's original owner who had it for 27 years before parting with it for about 50£. It had been a regular driver, but during the summer I went through pretty much everything, polished all the bits and replaced the basic wear-and-tear parts. The paint itself was...

Hi! I remember reading an article about the Fly in a local bike magazine back in 2003, and I thought to myself that this is one sick looking machine! I also remember the price tag for the test bike then which was about 7000€ so that kind of killed the dreams for a while.. :lol: Couple of...

Re: PM'd!

Bump!

Awesome story, great find and a lot of raw resto potential in that rare piece of titanium art. If it were mine, couldn't wait to get it in to pieces and starting the always so sweet (and slow) resto work! :)

Hi, A single and non-smoking IRC Kujo DH 2.35” tire with great sense of humour and blushing red sidewalls is looking for a lifelong companion on a similar good conditioned Kujo. Thanks! -Turkka

It surely looks like a nice unique construction, but it seems to be very hard to find any info on it or even the brand itself. Even the usually bottomless information well of retrobike archive seems to be quite dry on those Minerva bikes.

Hi! My friend acquired this old Minerva bike equipped with some quality components like XTR M900 etc. Would someone have any information on this frame? It looks very interesting with the details and weights about 1700g with the bb and headset. Don’t even know the material except that it’s...

+1 I see the hours and love (plus $$$) sacrificed to the extraordinary Yeti, very very well done and congrats on the upcoming win, but maybe the carbon tubes weren't processed long enough in a british humor bath as its sarcasm radar might have some flaws.. As my own Lightning project is slowly...

Re: Hi, It's a 1997 Marin Bobcat Trail missing the Alivio brake levers from its original spec. -Turkka

Hi! I’m looking for Coda Magic M900 cranks with the MTB spider and the whole BB entity. Thanks!

Nice one! Would be a great project for someone.. 8)

In my defence it would have been like throwing pearls to pigs in his case :D