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HPV Heaven is Geoff Bird's new venture, with a variety
of recumbent-specific bits and bobs. It is, as Big Ron would say, Early
Doors Yet for the business but the number of bits is growing all the time. |
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Cycle Promotions run a series of one-day sales of
components, accessories and clothing, at venues all over the UK. If the
prices of the sample products on their web site are anything to go by, this
could be a good place to kit out your machine. |
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RS Components
"Great for hard to find mechanical
components as well as electrical stuff."
- Geoff Bird
"Good for nuts and bolts as well!"
- Dave Larrington
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Screwfix Direct, FREEPOST, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22
8BF
tel: 0500 41 41 41 (UK only)
fax: 0800 056 22 56 (UK only)
Nuts 'n' bolts, tools, electrical bits,
etc. Paul Davies says they're very good. So do I.
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Goodfellow, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, CB4
4DJ
tel: +44 (0)1223 568068
fax: +44 (0)1223 420639
Stuff you never knew you needed. Polycarbonate
in thicknesses down to 0.002 mm (at a price)
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Polyfibre, 18 Wainwright St, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B6 5TJ
tel: +44 (0)121 327 5354
Composites - glass, carbon, Kevlar
- and everything that goes with it. Take plastic money and will deliver
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The Big S - European site. Details of all their multifarious
components are to be found here. |
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Hope, Hope Mill, Skipton Road, Barnoldswick, Lancashire,
United Kingdom, BB18 6EN
tel: +44 (0) 1282 851200
fax: +44 (0) 1282 851201
Manuals available for their discs brakes,
which are this: excellent.
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Magura GmbH & Co, Postfach 1180, D-72562 Bad
Urach, Germany
tel: +49 (0)7125 153 200
fax: +49 (0)7125 153 245
Has the Magura brake workshop manual
buried in there somewhere. Link is to English version of site.
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SRAM
The GripShift people, who now also
make The Components Formerly Known As Sachs. Site includes technical manuals.
Which is nice.
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Rohloff GmbH, Mönchebergstr. 30, 34125 Kassel,
Germany
tel: +49 (0)561 875615
fax: +49 (0)561 875338
Manufacturers of the single most covetable
cycle component on the surface of the planet - the 500/14 Speedhub. Link
is to English version of site.
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F. Schlumpf Ing., Dorfstr. 10, CH-7324 Vilters, Switzerland
tel: +41 (0) 81 723 80 09
fax: +41 (0) 81 723 83 64
Manufacturer of the ingenious Mountain
Drive - 2-speed bottom-bracket gearbox. Link to English version of site.
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Harris Cyclery
Home of the famous, nay legendary,
Sheldon Brown. More useful advice about bicycles and their components than
just about anywhere else on the Web.
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