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A few books that I had passed on to me, have enjoyed reading and would like someone else to appreciate. These *should* all fit into a box to post at just under 2kg, and happy to send for cost of postage. Cheers, Dave.

Here's my work-in-progress Spa Cycles Audax, not yet road tested. It's the product of wanting to get a sturdy modern Reynolds steel frame with slightly tighter angles than my touring and mountain bikes that can still handle a mix of surfaces. Spa were typically helpful and swapped out the...

This thread features not one but two Dave Quinn mountain bikes, one that came to me as a 531 frame to which I've added bits. The other came to me as Karma courtesy of top man Andy (@KondratievsBike). DQ1 was a very rusty frameset. A lockdown project inspired by a few threads featuring Dawes...

My love of cycle touring started age 13 when I read ‘Travels with Rosinante’. That year I went on my first ‘long’ bike ride: getting the train from north Wirral to Wrexham and riding home. I still get the same sense of freedom from a long ride on unknown roads. I still have the book As...

After trying various methods with varying success, I have found a great way of removing seized pedals from cranks, cobbled together from various tips on here and YouTube. I hope it helps someone. But first, hat tip to @KondratievsBike, who very kindly gave me the Suntour cranks and Shimano SPD...

Hi all I've picked up a Dave Quinn 531 mountain bike frame and forks locally (Wirral, frameset was in North Wales) and will be getting it powder coated soon. It had a lot of surface corrosion, hence the rust treatment liberally applied all over it, but seems solid and rode well when built up...

Having just acquired an Al Carter Team Memphis frame, I found a few posts suggesting that they were made in the same Taiwanese factory as the Fisher / Gary Fisher frames. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=233194 viewtopic.php?f=1&t=84197&start=20 viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24026 I was wondering if anyone knows...

Back in March 2019 I asked on here about a mystery bike that I'd owned for a while and was ready to build into something. It turned out to be a Specialized Hardrock from 1988 (and not the Muddy Fox as claimed by a sticker on the top tube).   See viewtopic.php?f=1&t=395615 It is a relatively...

Hi all. Hope someone can help with this puzzle. Among my collection of old bike frames and bits I have this mystery object: steel frame, 1" steerer, unicrown forks with double eyelets at the drop out, 130mm oln rear triangle with double eyelets, u braked rear, cantilever front. It has a dia...