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What do bikers do with machine tools at the weekend?  Make bike parts of course! New 40mm stem made on the 1950's manual mill. Milling a rectangular shape with a few holes in it is easy enough.  Forming the curved surfaces takes a little more thought and preparation, but it is well worth it in the end! Can anyone guess what the inspiration for the shape was?    

We recently started shipping a new, upgraded threaded rod with all our press orders.  The new rod is precision cut from stainless steel: it offers higher accuracy and greater strength, and features threadless ends to lead the T-bar handles/nuts on and off the rod, so there's less chance of the handles falling on the floor! And best of all we've not increased the price of our presses! We have the new rods in three lengths.  They are available to be purchased separately here in case you want to upgrade an older press.  

We've updated our range of Santa Cruz bearing tool kits to cover all the latest models, including the new Nomad 5 and the Heckler and Bullit e-bikes! Santa Cruz have always been good at standardising their bearings and that trend continues - every bike that they have made in the last decade has used some combination of the same two bearing sizes for it's rear suspension pivots, meaning that there's a tonne of cross-compatibility between our different SC kits.   Interestingly, SC started moving from the angular contact 7900/7902 to the normal radial 6900/6902 version of their bearings a few years ago.  Though essentially identical...

Our much anticipated ‘wind-out’ bearing pullers are on sale now!  Simple, powerful and effective, and best of all, no hammer required!  They are ideal when there is just a singe bearing, like suspesion linkages.      We've uploaded a clip of our new puller in action here:   Our familiar ‘expanding’ type pullers will still be available as they are ideal for blind and back-to-back bearings, but for single bearings like those in many suspension linkages, our new wind-out pullers are the business! On sale now here.