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Race Face Turbine - the later ones

Love it, and glad my thread inspired you! The earthy colours of that Cannondale era were great for mountain bikes being used in the hills, they seemed to fit in so well compared to the more garish offerings of later years.

Not all, I had one with standard 25.4mm clamp as I used it with a set of standard Azonic Singlewalls back in the day.

This is the later DS, not the DH - so around '98 if memory serves me correct. The DH and earlier STS frames had an aluminium head tube section rather than thermo as this one has. No idea what that does to change the value though. Cranks may only be LX but they look mint so will be worth...

Surely the correct response would be to tell your 17yr old that other people's property is to be respected, and to stop being a bit of a shit? Or are you a parent that thinks their kid can do no wrong and only you have the right to 'discipline' him (hint, situations like the original link are...

Wrong place to be saving weight IMO. Taking weight off the bottom of the bike without taking it off the top actually raises the centre of gravity which in turn makes the bike feel top heavy. Obviously only changing a set of axles will not have a great deal of impact but as a part of a bigger...

25.4mm clamp, right?

As in you want to service it, or just know which order the bits go in so you can fit it back onto a bike?

If the sale with @kdturkay falls through @bhill22 I'd definitely take it. Absolutely not trying to do any sniping though so no fear there, just if it ends up still being available for some reason.

Hot grease and spray grease can also work.

I tried to buy one of them when I replaced the several broken DH9s I had with the M1. It was impossible. As far as I could work out they never existed as production bikes. A shame as in theory they were pretty on the money for what I was after. Nice original Atomic Industries Aircorp pedals on...

They still sold the Double Barrel until recently so lots of places do them, and the seal kit for the 5th is the same as the Manitou Swinger 6 and both use standard sized o-rings that are still used in other shocks today. My mate down at Sprung Suspension in the FOD did the Swinger on my Rotec...

There were a few SS M952 mechs made by Shimano mechanics which used the SS Dura Ace cage. I made one myself at the time to run on the M1 but mostly it was GS I ran. SGS was way too long for DH bikes. From memory the M950 long cage sat somewhere between a traditional Medium and Long, and the...

The biggest issue with older mechs on larger cassettes is that the arc of the parallelogram isn't moving in the right line to work from 11T up to xT. Cage size limits the mechs ability to absorb chain slack but the actual mechanics of the mech are what limit cassette size if you want proper...

Just take it to an engineering company and they'll be able to sort the bolt out for you for not much money, and if needs be helicoil the thread.

My memory is that the PSS was worse but I don't think I did any long rides on it, and too much time has passed for me to remember what the PSS2 was like. It's unlikely to be as bad as the SDG Ti Fly I have on all my modern bikes! Two 50km+ days on that definitely leave you feeling broken. Wasn't...

Industrial freezer gloves. Some are better than others but we use them for ice/mixed climbing down to -10c and they're awesome. Not down mitt awesome, but the best compromise for warmth and dexterity when you actually need to use your hands (even compared to £100 Rab and Mountain Equipment...

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. The stories that go with bikes are the interesting bit for me now. I recently tracked down a red and black PSS2 saddle to replace the PSS that's on here as a few years ago I junked the original as it was tatty and I thought 'never gonna need that again'. Oh if...

One of the 'final' pieces I was after was a Hopey steering damper. This one came to me in bits but it was all there so it's been rebuilt (I need to check the oil weight though as it doesn't feel quite right) and fitted. As the bike is currently built with a DM stem rather than the original...

Still on the hunt for some original nickel plated Boxxer WC's but that I suspect may be a long term hunt. A few tweaks to it since the original post: The first was tracking down this Easton EC90 post. It's not quite right as I had an original EA50 on it (as did everyone else at the time) but...