Recent content by klunkrider

Probably genuine, even a far east faker would have run a finishing pass to remove those tooling marks in the fluted bit 🤣

Everything's removable if you try hard enough.

I've bought a few Pace forks over the years but never ended up using them much or keeping them long so I'm not an expert but I do know that I've never seen any of these gold stanchions looking anything other than utterly humped. Whatever they were coating them with must have been crap!

@Cloverleaf it wasn’t you that I bought these Pike/Judy DHs off was it?

Not done by me, rather I found it on ebay and bought it to go with my modded GT LTS. One thing worth mentioning was that the decals were the original Judy DH ones taken and enlarged in order to better fit the larger dimensions of the modern fork.

No idea what the legal position is but looking at the morals of this very niche part of the counterfeit industry*, I'd struggle to believe that any of the people that have bought the £37 Paul Comp Klampers off AliX were ever going to spend 6 times that on the genuine ones, and similarly, if...

I once bought a bike in a public toilet. It was a Pashley, advertised on eBay local to me. I made the deal and got a postcode from the seller for collection. I turn up at a row of terraced houses/flats over businesses. I presumed the seller was in one of the houses or businesses so I ring to...

Posted that before looking again at the photo posted by @bikeworkshop. I think corrosion has been a significant factor in that failure which of course it could be in the op’s case too.

There’d be no reason for the builder to drill or cut into the stay. Loads of braze ons that mount on the surface which are less work to fit and less risk. Recently, bottle bosses are often repurposed as mudguard and rack eyes and these do require drilling a hole but the shape would be different...

PS, stays don’t look too have been drilled to me. Braze ons can just be attached on the surface of the tube which I’d say is the case here.

Looks like some braze ons were either removed intentionally or broke off, possibly due to an overloaded rack? I’d be confident there’s no structural impact. Is there bare metal or have they been painted over? I’d file the remaining braze off, it’s probably silver and will be relatively...

Nevermind the canti controversy, I'm taking umbrage at your misspelling of toeing in!

In my experience, not for those double/triple ones. Also in my experience though and as others have stated, the clips tend to be a bit shit, a zip tie is much more secure.

I think it was when I bought the 27.2 dropper post that my opinion of Thomson changed. I bought it as a bit of retail therapy after not getting a job that would have been a pay cut. It was just on the market so was £400+ and it was the biggest waste of money I’ve ever made. All the chat was...

Not had any breakages but have seen a couple examples of their posts being undersized and i have a post that I cannot get to stop creaking.