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Did you ever see the early GripShift (pre-SRAM) advert where they showed you all the parts in a first-generation STI shifter? 😳

If you want underbar shifters which are kinda like thumbshifters, SunTour made wishbone shifters… if you can find them. The high-end ones are actually pretty heavy, as they're solid metal, whereas the lower end models have hollow plastic levers. I used to love the pair that I picked up in...

The Cave Of Doom should have enough spares, but I'll let you know if I'm short of anything… are you in/near Bristol…?

Looking for F+F or bike for an asylum seeker who has arrived in Bristol from Kenya with basically nothing. They're 5'7" tall, so I guess small-to-medium. I can build up or service as needed, so if you have anything knocking around taking up too much space, please let me know. Happy to collect...

Sachs ones are also 5.0mm cog spacing, whereas XTR 8-speed needs 4.8mm, I think…? Can you re-space…?

This North Face advert just turned up on my Facebook feed… can anyone ID the bikes from these photos? Do we reckon mountain bikes with aftermarket drops, or…?

I have MD and non-MD cranksets and crank arms in various conditions, as well as GG bottom brackets. Let me know if you're interested.

PM incoming about Deore MT-62 front mech £8

I'm after a Shimano Endless Clamp front mech from around 88-93, preferably with a 31.8mm band, but could always consider fashioning my own. Please let me know what you have, photos always useful 👍🏻

This. They are so much better than the elastomers that they're designed to replace…

What did this sell for, out of interest…?

Score! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115949232094

Ryan Builds Wheels in Bristol 👍🏻

"…always felt like the front wheel was tucking under the bars and actively trying to send me…" is exactly what the PRST-1 felt like when I rode an early one at a Polaris event back when Singletrack was still GoFar…

As I remember, the cut-out clamp was an aftermarket mod that I think was done by Pace to reduce weight… you couldn't buy them like that over-the-counter. I'd therefore suggest you could legitimately modify one…

Looking through MBA sometime in late 1990 probably, there's an article about the GT team. All the lads are on Zaskars, but Juli is on a Xizang, and THAT'S the frame that I want. Bought a '92 for a song in '97-ish, sold a few years ago now my back is no longer compatible. I also turned out to be...

"Long Travel"

Can I ask where you're getting the shoes from as I may need some for my Laiti Mono hubs…

I've never actually used either variant of the 1" headset, only the 1-1/8" of which I have a couple. I would imagine that if you got a JIS variant, the 0.6mm would be enough to make the crown race (=Lower Cone) loose on the fork crown, but either it could be shimmed with foil and/or it will...

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