Early Saracen Lovers Anonymous......

[brocklanders023]

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Enjoy Graham! My garage misses it but the bike deserves to be used which was not going to happen here. :facepalm:

 

[Stodgy]

That looks great - it's the sibling of my Trekker. Similar handling I suspect but the Trekker might be a hair more aggressive? They do ride very well.

 

[Graham_hkr]

it's the sibling of my Trekker. I suspect but the Trekker might be a hair more aggressive?

Depends on who's riding it mate, I had some work to do on my TV areal today went straight up there on the Tufftrax, never put my food down once..

 

[Stodgy]

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Don’t build them like that anymore.

Think trekker has slightly shorter chainstays and a bit less fork rake (wouldn’t that make for slower steering?)Not sure about toptube though, but with that sort of extreme race geometry I would only reach the gutters.

 

[Graham_hkr]

who knows, maybe you'll like them?
If you're a fan of keeping things original, I'd stick with them.

Re Biospace - Well after riding the Tufftrax for around 5/6 weeks now you were correct KIS I think they do make a difference & will definitely won't be changing them!
G.

 

[Bimly]

I think the cult of biopace has been debunked along with KOPS. Now we have computers that can actually do the maths. I had biopace on 2 bikes from new and junked the rings in favour of suntour accushift round rings at the time. Keith bontrager wrote a great article about it a few years back, I think it's on sheldon brown.

 

[dw_uk2000]

Little spring clean of the shed and got rid of some frames that were never meant to be.

 

[Graham_hkr]

Little spring clean of the shed and got rid of some frames that were never meant to be.

When you say.. ''got rid of some?'' :shock:

 

[Henne]

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What frames did you 'get rid of'?

 

[Stodgy]

Here's some of my 1989 Trekker:

Trekker-3.1 by Sam Hodgson357, on Flickr

Trekker-1.1 by Sam Hodgson357, on Flickr

NDYdMKX7QrW7yVN%B3gLaQ by Sam Hodgson357, on Flickr