Julius Czar

I'm based in Kent but I'm only about an hour from Chelmsford, happy to drive up for a ride at some point!

I've been chatting to Luke for a while now, he's got plenty of bits I'd like to get hold of! As for the guy with the Ozonys for sale, if it's the same guy, he had a Zoo Lynx frame going, which I bought!

I've joined all the ones I can find, and check them regularly. I'll have another look through though!

I've been looking for an 06 Zoo Python frame for well over a year now, I check here and observed trials regularly, as well as eBay and Facebook marketplace. I know they're obviously thin on the ground, but is there anywhere else I should be looking? Besides going door to door I'm out of ideas 😂

Thanks. Just wanted to be sure, didn't want to use wrong glue and melt the pad material or something 😂

Recently got hold of some Coust pads with Clark's backings, which left plenty to be desired when setting up, excessive play etc. I plan on fitting the material to a pair of old Heatsink CNC backings I have going spare. What glue is/was the go to for these?

The only experience I've had with this was a few smaller components, headset, cranks etc. I used an oven cleaner solution with hot water and left it for around 20 minutes, checking on it periodically. It removed the anodising from the parts completely, even in the hard to reach places. As for quantity I used roughly 50ml in 1L of hot water, but I suppose you could add more if it's not effective enough. I cant see it causing any issues as long as you remove it as soon as it's free of the colour and rinse it thoroughly afterwards. It will start to etch the aluminium if left too long! As I said I haven't done anything as big as a frame, but I'd personally recommend getting a big enough container to fully submerge it and turning it over periodically to ensure the solution is getting all of the frame.

I had one like this a few months ago, searched the username and got nothing so I figured something didn’t add up.

I could be wrong here but it looks more like a 219 frame, as far as I’m aware the 221’s never came with a functional seat tube or a hole to put a seat in. Could potentially be re stickered 219? Edit A quick Google has turned this up, looks like you’ve got a 2003 219. Hope this helps!

I can’t say I have, not sure why I didn’t think of that, I’ve seen your video about it too 🤦‍♂️ I’ll give it a go, thanks!

I’ve got a pair of Hope gunsmoke floating rotors on my mountain bike, and they seem to be past it in terms of performance. I bought them secondhand and they looked fairly worn, I was a bit worried that they may be contaminated but I’ve persevered with them as the gunsmoke parts are hard to come by. I’ve serviced the brakes and put new pads in but nothing has changed, the brakes are as good as non existent. Is there anything I can do to bring these rotors back to life? I’ll change them over if I have to but I’d like to keep the gunsmoke parts on if possible.

I have actually tried to contact them, got no response. I’m not after them urgently, Obviously with the current situation being the way it is I’m not expecting sticker printing to be a priority, I’ll try them again and see if they respond.

Does anyone know of a decent graphics company that can print me a set of monty 221ti frame stickers? I’ve tried everywhere for a replacement set but considering the age of the frame I wasn’t surprised to find that nowhere stocks them anymore. Any help would be appreciated, just got hold of a ti but it’s a bit tatty and I’d love to get it looking new again with new stickers to match. Cheers!

Nice work! Done a few builds like this myself. Its so rewarding bringing a tired looking bike back to life, not to mention an awful lot of work!

Hey, recently bought a specialized Tricross sport disk for a bit of road riding, as the mountain bike feels too weighty for rolling around the streets on. I Picked up an Orange RX9 frameset and used all the specialized bits to build it, only thing is the wheels are a bit past it, and I fancy something a bit wider/more versatile so I’m not restricted to just paths and roads. Any pointers? This side of bikes is very foreign to me and I haven’t got a clue what’s good or not. Im after a decent set of wheels that don’t cost the earth, need to be disk compatible and fit 135x10 and 110x10 with QR axles. Any help would be great. Thanks!