And today I did......
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When you hear us call you "w*nker", that's not you mishearing us....
RobMac":m0hpxlvb said:velomaniac":m0hpxlvb said:Just my wee joke with Widowmaker, I've met him at two successive Mountain Mayhems. We deliberately miss hear his moniker and call him Windowmaker
When you hear us call you "w*nker", that's not you mishearing us....
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Decals and clear coat on my 1991 Explosif.
Very slow progress as I broke my shoulder a couples of weeks.
A bit of history...during the stripping process I discovered gorgeous brass braze ons...instantly solving the problem of the color scheme (I wasn't a fan of the purple/black...left it as a bare metal with patina rather than aggressively griding it back to polish) the alternate color scheme was going to a deep forest/British racing green.
Will do a full rebuild thread one day...the last time this bike was out was maybe 6 years ago at the retrobike SW ride.
It's pretty much 100% from new full deore DX, only variants from catalog spec being XT thumbies, Flite saddle and I run the Deore DX 1990's wheels fully tubeless with Charge Splashbacks.
Decals and clear coat on my 1991 Explosif.
Very slow progress as I broke my shoulder a couples of weeks.
A bit of history...during the stripping process I discovered gorgeous brass braze ons...instantly solving the problem of the color scheme (I wasn't a fan of the purple/black...left it as a bare metal with patina rather than aggressively griding it back to polish) the alternate color scheme was going to a deep forest/British racing green.
Will do a full rebuild thread one day...the last time this bike was out was maybe 6 years ago at the retrobike SW ride.
It's pretty much 100% from new full deore DX, only variants from catalog spec being XT thumbies, Flite saddle and I run the Deore DX 1990's wheels fully tubeless with Charge Splashbacks.
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Took it back to metal, added a few layers of clear coat allowed those to fully go off, put the decals on and then have applied more clear coat, i'll add a few more coats and then when they have fully hardened off with sart the rebuild.
(this was not all done today! I just did the decals and clear coat finish today...I stripped it down about 5 years ago)
(this was not all done today! I just did the decals and clear coat finish today...I stripped it down about 5 years ago)
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...still doing my 92 Explosif.... must be around 10 years now......don't let that shoulder slow you down any
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...still doing my 92 Explosif.... must be around 10 years now......don't let that shoulder slow you down any
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=66179&hilit=1992+explosif
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It's just frustrating things like taking off the old cassette or thinking about putting the headset in....
Suddenly becomes very frustrating, I hate being broken and have spent a fortune on ebay buying retro bikes now all this years racing has been cancelled... two weeks in now and i'm mostly out of the sling and back on the turbo.
Suddenly becomes very frustrating, I hate being broken and have spent a fortune on ebay buying retro bikes now all this years racing has been cancelled... two weeks in now and i'm mostly out of the sling and back on the turbo.
Singlespeed and well...wrong side of 50 and still running 32/16 1X1 and 36X18 Pugsley
Knees, we don't kneed no stinkin knees
See what I did there
Just wait till Brian gets here
Mr P that's still not good and taking a long time.
Jamie
Knees, we don't kneed no stinkin knees
See what I did there
Just wait till Brian gets here
Mr P that's still not good and taking a long time.
Jamie
