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Interesting to see the report of the Balham Roughstuff race and pleased to see first two places taken by clubmates of mine. I first rode the event in 1963. After the Balham CC relinquished the event it was taken up by the Croydon and District Cycling Association Who promoted the event as the Croydon...

Many years ago I rode with a chap who had a badly damaged hand, his bikes were equipped with a foot pedal to the the rear brake. A very neatly engineered job mounted on the near-side chain stay. Peter has long gone but I do know the whereabouts of one of his bikes.

In my early days of trike riding I would get home from work on my fixed wheel bike, no room for a trike at work, and take the back wheel and mud guard off and bolt on the conversion axle. Ride the now trike all week end and reverse the procedure on the Sunday evening after the club run' One \monday ...

Find a skilled welder used to precision aluminium welding who can rejoin the broken bit to the frame, there will be paint damage. or
Carefully file off the remains of the bracket and buy a suitable sized band on front changer assuming that the tube is a conventional size.

Sorry for the delay, I have sorted the dunlop rim, but I am still after a 32 hole weinmann, Many thanks to all who have replyed. yes the hubs are special, the rims are to make up matching pairs of wheels for a couple of vintage bikes, a Sun and a Carpenter.

In reply to hondated: Jensen was in Whitehorse Road not quite opposite Allins, Leader Cycles were in St James's Road at the London Road end, I think! And yes I do remember Flint's but never used them.

Possibly the nearest to a specialist roughstuff bike were those built by Major Brothers of Croydon. I can remember the shop, just, very old fashioned, to my teenage eye, bits and pieces in the window. I never went in there with Allins, Leader and Jensen close and Geoffrey Butler not far away there w...

'fraid not, very nice rims but it has to be a Dunlop to mach the front. Many thanks.

Ugly

Still searching thanks, complete wheels may well be ok as long as the spoke numbers are correct as I will be rebuilding into hubs I have.

Many thanks Carlton, but must be 32hole rim to fit the Airlight hub I have'

Ugly

Jan
I probably owe you an apology I searched

2005 FOX FORX Owner's Manual - Ridefox.com

And found a service/user manual, but didn't check which forks it covered... every thing but the II.
Ugly

Have you searched for the manual? Not through the Fox site, I did a search for Fox Talas II and found a number of sites with service instructions.

Wanted for two on-going projects: 27 x 11/4 Weinmann 32 spoke rim and 27 x 11/4 Dunlop Special Lightweight 40 spoke rim

The rear brake on my 1924 Sunbeam is very powerful, it is a rod brake operated by a backward turn of the pedals. A cam in the bottom bracket activates the rod to the rear brake, which like all Marston Sunbeams is on the seat stay bridge and not behind the bracket subject to water and mud. Of course ...

Hydraulic, fairly sure that neither Shimano nor Campag have cable discs in their top end ranges. No doubt I will be proven wrong. Why do you feel that they would use cable operated brakes?