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I'm sure some of you will have seen this for sale recently. It was originally up for too much money, and if truth be told I still paid too much for it given how much the market's on its arse, but I sorted it for a price I was willing to pay and that's the main thing. If truth be told I thought...

I didn't even clock the decal 😂 Either way,'98 sounds reasonable and it's still a great find!

It's late/post '97 at least, it's got the revised free hub side machining - this is an earlier one from '96 ish, you can see the straight taper from flange to titanium tube whereas the blue one above is stepped:

Anything period from Marzocchi would tick your boxes perfectly; if you want a little more travel then the Z1 would work fine, it's only 20mm extra travel so won't mess with the angles too much. You can get new seals for them from Dr. Zocchi and with a fresh set in there they'll be as reliable as...

Cheers @Cristian-T, I'm glad you liked it. I've not got as many pics as I'd have liked given how many times we were out, although given my dad's photography there are plenty of landscapes from the days! Your trip sounds like a good one aside from the rain! It makes me think of some of John D...

Sorry! 😂 With you on the FS version too, they'd go well together although I'd go for a set of Millennium's or Supernova's for this before I spent the money on that. I think if I went FS I'd probably do it in the Maxxis team colours of grey/orange, that scheme looked great to me.

Makes as much sense as much of the environmental lobby’s approach and calculations. Probably more effective to be honest!

Cheers! I was the same. As I didn’t race 4x or dirt jump I could never justify £800 for one at the time. For £200 or so it was a different matter, especially as I originally built it entirely from spares. I’ve bought stuff for it since but not much, and it was all at the ‘right price’ so if it...

The first generation of Intense Tazer is an absolute classic and one which needs little introduction. This sequence in the first Earthed film of Kovarik razzing about the pits with the '03 decals to me was absolutely iconic, as were those years of Norba and World Cup 4x, until of course Sam Hill...

A few updates on this. The first is that I discovered accidentally that Intense USA still had stock of the carbon upper swing link that they fitted to a limited edition version of the frame. So I've ordered one. It's tarty, unnecessary, and will do absolutely nothing for the weight, stiffness or...

I thought I'd put these pics separate of the RC36 strip down. These are monumentally basic compared to modern forks, and have a lot of plastic in them. Damping is simply a plastic piston, and adjustment is a plastic cover that closes a bleed port. Nothing fancy, but then they have been...

This one is very special to me, it’s my dad's first, and until pretty recently, only mountain bike. Back when I was a wee nipper he bought me my first mountain bike, a 20" wheeled 1993 Specialized Hardrock Mega from Edi Bikes on the advice of a guy he was working with at the time. That one...

Yep, I'm with you. I'm an environmentally conflicted soul; I love wilderness, nature, wildlife and being immersed in it. But I also love old cars, fast cars, bikes and lots of other things that aren't great for the environment because they require 'stuff' to be made (and wear out) to do it. I...

Is this on the rear? It could have been a custom axle perhaps to work on a frame which was designed for a wider hub, or maybe where there'd been a floating rear brake arm originally. What's the overall hub width? I certainly didn't come across anything like that at the time - might be worth...

It was indeed! I clocked it on a saved search, realised you'd asked preemptively, and I cheekily stuck an offer in. Sorry (although I told myself that it wasn't really what you were after anyway)! Have a look at the Hope Pro2 as an option, it's more modern than the Bulb/Sport but is visually...

I'm conflicted on this. There's a lot of daft 'engineering' which goes into bikes, but bear in mind that my world is bigger travel stuff, not lightweight XC, and not road. Internal cable routing is so-so. On some bikes it just isn't an issue, but on others it's crap - like some of the videos...

No, you're stuck with Hope rotors on that. If you ever want to consider selling it though in favour of using something else then give me a shout, I've been after one of them for a while!

I've had a few, but only ever on nearly new headsets so it's 100% been down to manufacturing tolerances where it's been machined too thin. One was on a Race Face Real Seal, a Shimano XT one, and another that I can't remember, perhaps Crank Brothers? It was one I'd been sent to test and lasted I...

CK headsets are definitely good. Originally their servicing requirements were to remove the headset from the frame every year and soak the bearings in heavy gear oil overnight after cleaning, and that always seemed a bit wrong to me as removing headsets constantly can easily damage head tubes...

Mountain bike forums are ridiculously over-moderated in my experience. Too many people make complaints about posts, too many don't like it when someone disagrees and rather than having a discussion go crying to moderators, and moderators also have a tendency to love doing things, like editing...