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  • Rear mech for sale – Only £1400
  • bearnecessities
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    fd3chris
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    I’d give him zero. Not even for nostalgia.

    warpcow
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    Ooof. I wanted one of those so badly when they first came out.

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    Onzadog
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    Will it work with 11 speed? 😀

    ampthill
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    It certainly is an amazing thing

    cyclistm
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    Did anyone have one? Were they any better than whatever was on offer at the time??

    ferrals
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    They were anodised colours, of course they were better 😆

    fasthaggis
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    I would buy it if it had an EU flag on it.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    They were anodised colours, of course they were better

    😀

    Some retro prices are getting silly now.

    thisisnotaspoon
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    “hand made”

    Does sitting at a PC programming a CNC machine constitute hand crafting these days?

    twicewithchips
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    Harrumph, I feel old now.

    orangeboy
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    This ^^^^ but I refuse to act grown up

    Alwasy wanted one but never did

    jimw
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    A Memphis mech!
    Nice to look at. I’m not familiar with the brand- were they good?

    ghostlymachine
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    The chap who ran our local shop had one. Spent months tracking one down, pretty much NOS. It’d been on an unused display bike for a couple of decades. Paid about $8-900 for it. Got done badly for shipping and import stuff. Didn’t care. Had a Paul’s rear mech. Told everyone.

    Turns out that the well battered m950 XTR he replaced worked better. Despite 15 years of abuse.

    So he sold the Paul’s mech and put a nearly new m950 XTR mech on instead.

    He made a significant profit on the deal.

    chestrockwell
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    Seem to remember them not being as good as XTR or even XT according to MBUK way back when. Bit like the Campag stuff.

    Still lovely to look at though.

    moe_szyslak
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    I was a Paul video the other day where they mentioned that they only had hand-operated CNC machines in the mid 90s, so these were properly hand machined/assembled etc. Never the less, all the money in the world.

    slimjim78
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    I loved the look of these BITD. Even then there were reports of shoddy operation.

    Surely these are ripe for a bit of reverse engineering?
    Looks to be made up of around half a dozen fairly basic CNC’d shapes, plus a couple of smaller fiddly bits.

    smiththemainman
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    A fool and his money and all that! Did you operate them with a co-ax cable? Hand operated CNC 😯 to press the start button, surely hand made is a chunk of metal and a load of hand tools is it not?

    ahwiles
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    depends if you think there’s any skill to operating an old (manual) Bridgeport…

    smiththemainman
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    Loads of skill involved in operating a manual Bridgeport Milling machine,probably the most reliable versatile little machine you can have , owned two for over 30 years and still spot on today, if you were lucky it might have longitudinal feed and possibly a quill feed.

    mattrballen
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    Unless these were far better than ProShift, I found anything Shimano far better BITD

    thisisnotaspoon
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    I was a Paul video the other day where they mentioned that they only had hand-operated CNC machines in the mid 90s, so these were properly hand machined/assembled etc. Never the less, all the money in the world.

    You don’t “hand operate” a CNC machine, so I presume you mean a manually operated milling machine? Still stretching “hand made” I think!

    Gunz
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    Each to their own but looking at the retro for sale page on Facebook there are a lot of people paying decent money for stuff that was pretty crud BITD (see what I did there?). I’m going off to find my green Ringle bottle cage.

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