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Nice but the shocks are toast, is the price negotiable?

If you’re still looking it’s a Hope #1 Caliper you need

These were a later version which was pulled from sale as Giant were threatened with a patent violation from another manufacturer. think “virtual pivot point” They gave the frames to shops / distributors rather than crush them, I know of a few others including one locally to me but most never...

4130 is particularly succeptible to salt corrosion and the naturally occurring salts just eat them away in combo with the lack of drain hole in the BB my father in law is a metals specialist and he laughed when I told him it was 4130 and held a mythical status in the biking community. My Yo is...

Annoyingly I had one in a slightly longer e2e for years that came off a Kona Stab I broke for parts, I sold it a few years back to pay for some parts I needed…

A bike named after my daughter, so cool! Well done on the find and I’m sure you’ll do it justice having seen your previous builds!

The shock pictured is an RC not an RX? The RX had a pressure valve on the end of the reservoir, the RC (Rebound / Compression) was a slightly later shock….

Picked this up for free on Saturday with no plans other than to save it as a survivor becoming a ruined commuter… 1988 Catalogue-spec with the exception of the tyres and the purple seat binder that I chucked on as the original one was rusted to bits… Full 6 speed Deore with thumbies and 2mm...

I had a trail breaker 2 from 1991, 19” which was comically large as my folks wouldn’t listen to my pleas for a 17” (thought I would out grow it) Lovely frame which took years of abuse

Yes if you remove the long spacer then fit the short one it will all button up nicely, I have a pace mount in the same style which I fitted to a manitou fork with no issues

It’s soul destroying isn’t it!

Tempted, let me check I have a back half to fit it to!

Looks like this sorry

It’s not a narrower axle you need it’s a different end cap, they had a style that was much thinner and the axle still went through to the drop out the mount sat on the axle and the thinner spacer took up the slack

I spoke to the guy a couple of years ago about this and he wanted £700, told him £450 was more realistic and he never got back to me, glad it found its way home!

Good write up Ali

It’s a Hope screw on, the Ti glide was for the hyperglide cassette system…

Are they both #3 callipers?

And could they get it to a place called Rainford which is a few miles south of Ormskirk?

Just a bike box? Or smaller?