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CCE is 15years old!
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I have a Rock Shox Jett T2 fork that's on my old Rockhopper which is scheduled to be cannibalised and recycled. They're blue, not in brilliant condition as the bike is about 15 years old but otherwise functioning ok. Not sure if they qualify as 'half decent' as it was a budget fork at the time, but did me ok for many years.
Can send pics if you're interested, happy to pass them on.
@biketrain
Cheers!
@nobrakes
Sounds ideal. PM me a price?
no charge, it's going to be recycled anyway.
@IWRATS sorry looks like forks thrown out. They would now be 15 years old, so probably had it.
@biketrain
Thanks for looking anyway.
@nobrakes
Have PM'd you.
@nobrakes' donor fork was nigh-on welded to the frame. Had to Dremel off the alloy spacers from the steerer tube.
The outside of the forks is well tatty, but the innards and stanchions are in perfect condition. It shall live again after cosmetic attention. This forum is great.
I was amazed that my 5mm allen key welded to 40cm of 7mm section square steel rod refused to engage the slider retaining bolts at the bottom of the fork tubes. Turns out Rock Shox use a 6mm bolt. What to do? Ah yes, file a 6mm hex driver out of the other end of the square steel rod. Mild steel, but broke the threadlock without rounding off.
"This forum is great"
Yes.
But actually -
it's the people on it!
All sounds well beyond my DIY skills. Would definitely have ended up recycled. Glad they're going to a new home!
The fork sliders have entered the labyrynthine world of Hendersons Metal Cleaners for shot-blasting and painting. Colour, price, timescale....all seem to be hinge on the turn of a card, the phase of the moon and the fall of the chicken entrails. I'll find out what happened when I get them back I suppose.
Still, their work is always good, despite the amiable chaos.
The fork sliders are nearing the exit of the labyrynthine world of Hendersons Metal Cleaners.
Cryptic text message received. I've asked how much it will be for the third and hopefully final time. If I don't get a straight answer I'm doing the full Moroccan on them, and I once got a hug off a djellaba dealer in the souk of Rabat for my near-Berber level haggling skills.
10 sheckles for this lovely gourd meat pie, I'm cutting me own throat here...
In other news I've refurbished the internals. Almost as new, but a bit of pitting corrosion in the parkerized stanchions. (I think @gembo played bass for the Parkerized Stanchions in '83.) Even the crown race, which was caked in cack polished up a treat.
Polished off the corrosion (and surrounding coating) from the stanchions, etched out the pitting with a weak acid, infilled the pits with cyanoacrylate glue and polished the excess of that away to leave a mirror-smooth surface. Re-blued the stanchions with a gun-bluing kit I had sitting in the shed in connection with my Christmas tree business.
Now it just needs filled with fresh oil and re-assembled. I do love the idea of refurbishment.
Thirty shekels sheets. Can't say fairer than that - it was the minimum price hinted at during the preamble. Should get another couple of years use out of @nobrakes fork and keep the money local.
@iwrats I was singer in fey Glaswegian bedroom band called the duffles. We went a bit punkier and called ourselves the duffs. Note this was before Homer Simpson drank duff beer, never played bass though.
@gembo
My mistake. I sang in public for the first time since primary school on Friday. Michael Marra. Proclaimers. Burns. All fey. Unpolished.
I was singing Hamish The Goalie by Michael Marra the other day. As I was reminiscing with a colleague who had spotted Hamish mcalpine in Tesco on the kings way in Dundee last week, looking same as ever despite nearing 70. Now he could kick the ball from his box over the bar of the keeper at the other end for sure but it is poetic licence on Michael Marra's part to suggest Hamish kicked the ball out into Invergowrie bay. However it is a true fact in the song that princess grace of Monaco was sitting above the advert for Taylor's brothers coal, up at tannadice where they gently terrorise.
Hairmless. Hairmless. There's never nae bother frae me.
Only a matter of time before it rings out round Murrayfield prior to kick-off.
Snatched the fork lowers from the jaws of Hendersons Metal Finishers. The paint job is deep and glossy as ever. But....
'Oh, when we shot blasted it, there was some quite deep pitting...'
Right. Why not phone me so I could fill it before painting? It's not the end of the world, the bike is only intended as a stop-gap on the way a 'proper' build, but....they're supposed to be metal finishers who understand this stuff.
I blame the parents. Honestly.
Polished off the corrosion from the stanchions, etched out the pitting with a weak acid, infilled the pits with cyanoacrylate glue… Re-blued the stanchions…
Where do you buy acid?
I have a set of old Rock Shox Duke XC forks that I was able to use for little more than a year before all the paint fell off the stanchions. The forks actually work fine, even if the air/oil seals were a bit fragile, but they need some heavy duty refurbishment. Apparently a lot of the Duke XCs had paint problems.
Where do you buy acid?
From the chip shop. Brown sauce is acid enough to remove rust and viscous enough to stay in place.
You can buy sulphuric acid for lead-acid batteries from motor factors, but brown sauce is cheap and effective.
Sure your stanchions are painted? Usually chromed, anodised or parkerised....
Re-assembled the fork with new grease and oil. It looks alright for something that literally had to be cut from the donor frame;
Tonnes of length on the steerer tube too. Cheers @nobrakes!
That's madame IWRATS' bike rebuilt with the suspension fork. Looks grand, and she smiled as she rode it straight into and over the kerb on a test ride.
Amazing how much quicker it steers, having replaced a lightly curved rigid fork with a straight suspended one. Also longer steerer tube has allowed the bars to go 30mm higher for a more relaxed ride.
All this so that I can tempt her further into off-road touring with Phil McKane's classic Glentrool Tour in May....
Sure your stanchions are painted?
No, I probably meant to say 'fork sliders'. The red bit.
Ah yes. I think it's either stanchions and sliders or uppers and lowers. Thank Cthulhu that upside-down forks haven't made it onto bicycles yet and no, I'm not checking to see if that's true, it just has to be true.
Halson Inversion forks were the hot tip in 1993.
Hi folks. I am an occasional contributor to the forum. I am about to put a bike onto Gumtree for sale but wanted to flag it up here first. I am selling a Trek Madone 5.2. It was bought from the Tricentre (remember them?) in 2009 and has had very little use over the past few years. It was serviced last year by Pedals at Bruntsfield. Details:
60cm carbon fibre frame in white
Shimano Ultegra shifters (10 speed; double); Ultegra compact crankset; Ultegra front mech; Ultegra brakes; Shimano Tiagra rear mech and cassette 12-28 (I need this to get up the hills!); Bontrager Race Lite wheels and hubs; Continental Gatorskin tyres 25mm; Selle Italia Gelflow saddle.
Its a lovely bike in very good condition (there is a minor scuff on the crankset but thats all). It's really wasted on me as I find most of my riding now is on a cross bike up the Pentlands and into East Lothian.
I am looking for £500.
If anyone is interested please get back in touch. I don't use Flikr so not sure how to post photos but I could e mail them to anyone interested if you PM me.
thanks
Hello - having had a fun but heart stopping day at Glentress yesterday, I've been convinced that disc brakes really are a useful invention. The bike has the tabs for discs and has a disc ready rear wheel.
Does anyone have a front wheel, 26 inch flavour, with a disc hub that they might consider parting with? I'm not looking for anything overly flash, round and true would be grand as my MTB is a bit of a hobby project.
@Mandopicker1
Your other option of course....
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/magura-hs11-rim-brake/rp-prod128025?
Like having 350mm rotors.
Talking of Magura -
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Bosch has announced a range of improvements for 2017, including improved e-bike systems service in the UK, a new marketing manager and a partnership with Magura.
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http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/bosch-announces-e-bike-changes-for-2017/020615
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