agreed. lots of ti loveliness!
how much is titanium by the ton?
Top quality linkage. That dual suspension thing in the loft is nuts!
Also, I want a turbo-trainer-cum-washing machine.
Imagine, five lots of a fifth of a load at a time, you could do some well good interval training and still have a full wash done inside the hour and a half it takes mine.
no fat bike FAIL
what a heap of junk!
did he work for Merlin?
brakes - Memberwhat a heap of junk!
did he work for Merlin?
you could say that...
aaahhh, founder of Merlin
how much is titanium by the ton?
Less than you'd think
I suspect that if some of that came up for sale on ebay.de, it could solve the euro crisis in one day!
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Oof!
Holy flashback batman.
Thats not a shed, its a museum 
Hat tip due to the retrobike crowd - http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=184858
Some more from the thread over there;
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Truss fork-tastic!
More here - http://merlintitanium.com/content_merlin_various_gallery_merlin.html
some of them look like they were just invented in the workshop by adding bars here and there with no real plan. Would love to be able to just try stuff out like that though.
I think I remember Brant turning up to a race in Grassington or Pateley Bridge or somewhere with an e-stay Merlin. It was bloomin' light, (the days before suspension), but I remember it being really flexy too.
I thought I remember a truss fork too, but my memory might be faulty on that one.
Proper bike porn though.
a load of old tat, none of which is of any real use except to doe-eyed retro fantasists that need to get real and stop living in the past.
a bike for life? yeah you have to ride a shite bike when everyone else has moved on.
MrSmith - Membera load of old tat, none of which is of any real use except to doe-eyed retro fantasists that need to get real and stop living in the past.
a bike for life? yeah you have to ride a shite bike when everyone else has moved on.
17 yr old MBUK fanboy ^^^ 🙄
Edit >> Don't suppose you have a 35mm camera or a pinhole camera in your collection> I bet you do 😉 you retro fantasist
This stuff is incredibly important to how bikes have developed over the years. Think your 5'' travel super rad kashima coated full squish is the first iteration of its kind?
Mind you I am a doe-eyed retro fantasist that needs to get real and stop living in the past. 🙄
i'm more than twice as old as a "17 yr old MBUK fanboy"
"Edit >> Don't suppose you have a 35mm camera or a pinhole camera in your collection> I bet you do you retro fantasist"
well seeing as i work as a photographer i stopped using 10x8,5x4, 6x6 film cameras about 6 years ago. hassleblads and linhoffs that today doe-eyed fantasists wet themselves over, i can't get excited about tools for doing a job that while they were well made have been superseded by better equipment.
so basically you were well wide of the mark.
also i never owned a 35mm camera apart from when i was a student (sold to help fund a proper camera)
Loving that linkage fork soft-tail.
i'm more than twice as old as a "17 yr old MBUK fanboy"
An old man with no soul. How sad.
An old man with no soul. How sad.
didn't realise you cared, don't bother praying for me though.
a load of old tat, none of which is of any real use except to doe-eyed retro fantasists that need to get real and stop living in the past.
a bike for life? yeah you have to ride a shite bike when everyone else has moved on.
I still ride merlin mountain from around that era, even raced on it last year. On anything other than gnarly trails it's fast and comfy just like it was when i bought it 1991.
There was me thinking this thread was going to be about [url= http://www.readersheds.co.uk/ ]Shed of the Year[/url]