Recent content by 2manyoranges

Yikes! Cannondale 18 inch SM600 1987 - Teal Blue - bought new - very short headtube - stolen from the back of my VW Scirrocco - and then it turned out that the frame run had a problem of head tubes snapping off. I wonder what happened to that one? Only other failure was… Late at night...

Indeed noted they weren’t sheared but I’ve done same with rounded Allen heads - initially I did not whack the bolt extractors and had poor results - but using good ones, drilling a perfectly central hole and selecting the right size, then whacking it to get it to bite seems the right thing to...

Much words of wisdom

1992 Klein Pinnacle Horrible climber Dented downtube from flint coming up off front wheel on first ride out Fast but beat me up through its rigidity Sold it

ah the 'Preztel Meisters' I had an interesting experience on these. Pothole....argh...can't avoid. BANG! Christ! rear wheels locks and I skate an S down the road, leaving a rubber trail behind me. One spoke gone and wheel locked against the side of the frame. Walk of Shame home. At least to...

You may well be right Pinkbike 'news': Rider goes into wood and jumps. A lot. Another rider goes into a wood and throws up some dirt on turns. A lot. Rider goes into wood and jumps. Again. A lot. Another rider throws up some dirt and does slightly less jumping. A lot. and so on and so...

yep - I hang off the back due to bad habits....

I like human endeavour. Altitude climbing without oxygen. Alpine style ascents. FKT on the South Downs. Hardline. All good in my view. Pushing hard, exercising good judgement, weighing things carefully and making a call when things align. But Matt Jones - who I respect - has done something...

Now that’s a thought - one of the big issues in the modern mayhem we call mountain biking is the poor technique which results in front end ejection because you’ve stopped the rear wheel with your arse - tyre buzz can affect us all on a bad day - mullets have reduced this risk nicely - but the 32...

sorry it was a bit tongue in cheek I am 170cm on a good day I have 26 jump bikes 27.5 enduro 29 enduro and FS I really appreciate the use of 29 and proper proportional geometry for taller people - I recently built an XL 29er Ragley Big Al for a 6' 4" friend and it was perfect in a way which...

yep I agree - always worth fiddling with things. Although some things do need to go into Room 101 after they prove to be a nightmare.

and what if you are short? Like me

second that. About five years ago I bought a Yeti, on the basis that I could fit 3 bikes in the back, front wheels off. Yep, jump bikes went in fine. But then I bought some new long low and slack enduro bikes - 29 and 27.5 - and arrrgh - they barely fit with front wheels off. Just about but not...

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/32-inch-wheels-will-be-permitted-in-uci-xc-racing-in-2026.html and there's more where that came from 36 Thirty six THIRTY SIX! https://singletrackworld.com/2021/08/is-36-inches-the-measure-of-fun/ great....a whole new set of standards to Fart Around With and for...

A - manufacturer 5 = 1995 11 = November then the number of the frame within the batch produced that year