Current Projects chat and miscellany

A picture would be nice. ;)

A friend of mine today went 5th overall,competing in a local trackcross event with this

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It was working for me before, but i've changed it now

was working for me

Often the case. You need to learn which image URLs are permanently available to any user, there are a litany of ways websites can show you an image at a URL which is temporary and/or accessible to just you

Any idea why the tt/ht is brazed while the dt/ht is lugged ?

Maybe it was done to match the esthetic of the seat tube cluster. That's (also) part lug, part brazed. You can definitely see some outlines of a lug at the top tube/head tube junction, if you zoom in far enough.

Top tube is oversized isn't it? The normal lug set would be sized for a 1" top tube, that looks to be 1⅛". Similar treatment at the BB as the down and seat tubes are conical so the BB ends wouldn't fit in the sockets of a regular shell.

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Found/bought a 1" threaded disc fork on eBay. How bad will it be to ride?

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26"? Gimme link pls.

That Saracen is a very nice machine! I have the same one exactly, fitted with Pace RC30 rigid forks, a good combination. It has XT rim brakes.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26-MTB-FORK-WITH-V-DISC-MOUNT-1-STEERER-25-4mm-260mm-with-90mm-THREAD-F755/183525310817?hash=item2abaf60161:g:pN8AAOxy4fVTAyiM

Probably cheaper to buy an old 1⅛" frame + fork to be honest

Thanks,@HarmanMogul , drop some photos of yours in the Retro Mountainbike thread.

Last one

Starts sweating.

Probably cheaper to buy an old 1⅛" frame + fork to be honest

Cheaper than 25 quid? Plus I like my current frame. I just don't like the brakes.

about 30€ seems acceptable to me

Found some usuable stuff for the Saracen in my bro's spares box.

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Plus I like my current frame

Your bike is one of the greatest of all time!

It's the £8 postage that's the killer on those forks, there's definitely 1⅛" double-disc MTB frames out there for less than £35. Then you don't have to muck about with quill stems either which make bar changes annoying. But fuck it!

Thank you kindly. But I actually like quills!

This has been done. The pics date from 2011 and several things are changed now.

Sugestions for the build ?

Oooof. MAX forks? Sick paint and chrome!

AIR forks I’d guess.. but yes agreed!

Max or Air ? I do not know I just won the Ebay auction... nice ?
this one is Max

and this on is Air

MAX IMO

chrome!

shiny parts ?