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I can't tell you how many times I've looked at a full suspension bike and thought; "that spring would work much better if it was stuck on a log hanging off the back of this thing."

Halfords is interesting. Sorta like Canadian Tire but with better bikes. Though CT doesn't service bikes at all. Anyway, about Voodoo - I see a tweet on their page that is signed "-Joe." Joe Murray is handling their social media as well as the bikes then?

Interesting that they have five 26" bikes in their lineup, and none of them appear to have tapered head tubes or "modern" geometry. They are bringing retroback?

Re: Re: Now that's a good question. Makes you wonder if it was done on purpose. Like this guy is some kind of geometry savant and knows something the rest of us don't. Except that the fork legs are also way too low in the crown, so more likely someone who shouldn't be working on a bike was...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Litespeed-OBED-T ... 3f51915738 Do you ever look at a bike and just immediately see that it's wrong? It might take a bit of looking to sort it out, but right from the first instance you see it, it just makes you cringe. This could be something truly special with those...

http://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/1736934 ... firstphoto this is exactly what i hope to find after i've cleared out the garage - what a great bike.

That's a beauty, I've always liked Cove, even after a pretty comical experience as a dealer. When I worked in a shop in the mid 00s, we sold Cove, and they would ship the frame in one box, and a build kit in another. I don't think the build kit *ever* had the right or complete set of parts. No...

I wonder what "by Trade" is - they were called CycleTech. This must have been one of the last ones they made.

I love these kinds of threads! I agree with Frank; that seat tube is totally Rocky and since it's not a wishbone, it would have to be '89 or older. This pic from the '89 catalog looks really close, with U-brakes on the top of the seatstays and it says the Tantalus/Thunderbolt can be brazed...

Re: Re: I think we have a winner. It's a dead ringer for this bike; http://fcdn.mtbr.com/attachments/vintag ... 865938.jpg

It'll be pretty obvious why I bought this, but I'm not sure what it is. My immediate thought was Rocky Mountain, but it doesn't really match any Rocky I can find. The cable routing, no slope on the top tube, 1" headtube, ovalised seatstays - nothing has that setup. And certainly nothing that...

Rocky Mountain Hammer. Steel 27.5 hardtail with 130mm fork, 142mm rear end, routing for a dropper post, all mod cons... Essentially the Kona Explosif, but less expensive because I just don't have that kind of money since I bought a house.

I had a very good weekend for vintage bikes. This Stratos is the second bike I got, and I got it from the very excellent forum member Blizz, who was gracious enough to show me his very excellent collection of bikes too. It's a little scuffed and scratched, but I like patina, and it's not...

Putting a new cable in the older SRAM Gripshifts. The ones where you had to pull the shifter apart to get the cable out. When I worked in a shop, I ended up replacing quite a few of these because I broke them trying to put them back together. Where's the My Favorite Thing To Do thread...

If you have a 1" fork, it means the outside diameter of the fork is 1", so if you've measured the inside of your fork and got 1" I'd say you have a 1 1/8" fork. The measurement 1 1/8" is the outside diameter, and it's therefore 1" on the inside. A 1 1/8" quill stem is stamped 25.4 because the...

This is a cool frame. Rim brake mounts for 26" and 24" wheels? BMX press-fit BB? Incredibly beefy? Check, check, and check. That's a good score - even here in Canada, Norcos of this vintage are pretty rare. The good ones are anyway.

Re: Re: #1. That is a beauty! I missed out on a John Deere green Spot on ebay years ago, and I'm sure my life would have turned out for the better had I won it. #2. You gotta lay off that FB group, and let some other guys have a chance there! :wink:

This is just beautiful. I'm not a Brodie expert, but if it were a '95, shouldn't it have a brake cable noodle around the seat tube?

720mm with a 90mm stem on my '05 Blizzard. I had tried a 780mm Chromag but it just felt wrong.

I hope this link will work, it's Google+, so who knows. https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/+Ste ... 7db90a3cde I have to wonder about the ride of a high-pivot design like this, cool bike though.