London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

bmx bar ends... are they G-Sport? I've needed a pair for two years and still havent got round to buying them

just buy a pair of grips often come free.

no, they're by a company called Stolen, given to me by a friend when he got some new ones. I don't know if the free ones with grips will it all bars as they have different inside diameters. My bar ends go over the outside end of the bar:




http://www.winstanleysbmx.com/produc..._Clamping_Type

yep, shitty plastic ones come 'free' with grips. decent metal ones like g-sport cost more than grips

Prolite (cheap ones from cyclesport) come with metal ones. Besides the plastic ones easily last the life of the grip, and weigh much less.

One of the reasons I wonder why people fork out so much for Ti bits & thomson seatposts when you can drop so much weight by ditching unecessary baggage.

... most folks'd benefit more from laying off the pies for a few weeks than shelling out for pricey lightweight kit on any type of bike . :)

plastic ones last... what? I take it you've never accidentally dropped your bike or crashed then?

I'm not gonna buy a set of grips that I don't like just so I can have some bar plugs that I'm 99% sure won't fit in my bars.

and do you really think the miniscule additional weight of a set of aluminium bar plugs is going to make any significant difference to a bike's handling, acceleration etc? because if you do I think you've lost the plot...

I dont think itll make a difference, but clearly other people do when you can by seatposts that cost more than a decent frame. I wasnt suggesting you buy grips just for the plugs, but if it was time for new ones its a bonus right?

And even stand alone bar ends are diameter specific.

, do you like gsport stuff? Do you still rock 16tooth freewheel?

If you do ive got a great wheelset if your interested.

-edit-

Sabotaged by winstanleys!

Jesus, my wheels have them hubs. They used to sell for like a £100 each and are totally indesctructable.

talking of g-sport, look how cheap the homer hubs are now:
http://www.winstanleysbmx.com/produc...Homer_Rear_Hub

haha

Yep. And the benefit of that is that stand alone bar ends come in various sizes that I can choose from, to fit either the internal diameter or external diameter of the bars that I'm using.

Whereas it looks like the cyclesport ones only come in one size - undoubtely a size to fit the average internal diameter of a bmx bar, which is a fair bit bigger than that of the thick-walled aluminium MTB bars that I'm using.

Here's my trusty commuter in the snow this morning:

Picking this up next week :)

Whole bike or just Frame+fork?

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I beg you not to convert it into a fixed. Please, I beg you.

You jammy git, that bike is beautiful. So tastefully matched together with high end parts.

Them rims are worth big dorra to the fixie massive by the way.

But seriously dont touch that bike, its a geared dream machine.

I'll give you £300 for it just to save it from being Frankenfixied. Or should that be Fixensteined. Whatever man.

nah it's definately not going fixed, i'm sure i'll just keep it as is

I bought a geared road bike too, needs to change the rear wheel though because its an ancient tub.

You wanna go geared riding fred? See how fast our multiple speed drivetrains take us?

sell it me anyway, it's fucking gorgeous!

seriously, that bike gives me a stirring in my pants.

New bars, stem and saddle.
But there's just something not right. What's missing?

take the brake off then sell the saddle to me.

what's missing? the rider.

It's been fucking shitty not riding recently. Living in the countryside has meant that I still have slushy snowy ice everywhere and the grit that has been laid seems to do nothing but cut up my down tube. Bring on summer and these summer epics.

I hope you didnt take that the wrong way, I wasn't having a pop at you for not coming out riding or anything, I just couldn't see anything missing from the bike except for the rider!

It's hard to believe that there's still plenty of snow in lots of places, but then I look in my back garden and I believe...

I'm glad you mentioned grit, it's reminded me I should clean my bike before more damage is caused.

oh no, I didn't. It just reminded me of the fact that I haven't been riding much and, with that, my fucked up down tube.
Although, the one positive thing the snow has brought is that I've finally been able to appreciate the mountain bike which, up until now, has been something I just can't enjoy. Sun all weekend though and nuff bike riding is going to be happening.

sun all weekend you say? i ufcking hope so!

the changes look nice, maybe a smaller front wheel needed :)
Im in the process of building up another low pro , pics soon.

Just finished yet another rebuild after a crank snapped before Christmas and smegged my arm.
Based on a Fred Williams LWS 653.
You might spy it in the mornings around north Brum.

heres my bike, all vintage parts, 531 tubing, ready for the velodrome, riding brakeless, why is it cold today? i wanna ride this badboy.






if you see me in the street, rolling past you at 80mph, holla.

I'm sick of you fakenscooters appropriating our sub-culture and turning into some hipster fad.
Scooters are a practical low maintenance method for couriers to get round the city.
Your ride looks like you just bought it pre-fab from toys'r'us, (your deep t bars are lame btw) I spent months sourcing my parts.
Why don't you just go back to Shoreditch?!

Bah, you sound like a certain ex-fakenger who has the "only I'm allowed to ride fixed because I used to be a messenger for a couple of summer months, and all the other non-messengers are just posers" attitude. You should lighten up and stop getting angry at other people who choose this beautiful scooter-based lifestyle.

yeah man it can only be a good thing right? more scooters on the street, less cars, better for the environment, etc so chill your beans my t bars are dope.

heres another project of mine:



shes brakeless, just looking for the right drop bars and shes good to go!

Badd!

not sure if this'll work

but its meant to be my aged pug conversion...

ooh it did work!
thats an LX hub with a singulator dontcha know...

Some progress on the drivetrain... still single speed. Should get new pedals on it tomorrow (White flats if I can) and maybe a single chainring at the front, although that'd be bye bye to the nice cranks :(

Serviced the rear hub today, the axle was seriously bent, but the wear lines on the cones says it'd only just happened... gonna have to stop using this bike for work if I want it to last as I shift some weight up to the schools I visit. That's two rear axles across two bikes I've killed due to weight this year...

Anyway, much nicer than the 5spd block that was on before...

OMG

OMFG

do not ride this

frame it and hang it on your MY wall

Beater.

that is a nice looking ride,
it looks better than alot of manz best bikes.

wheres the front brake gav? i thought you had changed your ways! looks great though.

New rear wheel! Thanks for sorting it Dan

Don't you feel like a right sad bastard taking a picture of your bike? I did the other day. I hope the next door neighbour didn't see

I move swiftly! And yeah I feel like a douche. Just stoked to have it sorted

I was tempted to set up a really weird photo of my bike in a tree in the street - I won't go into details, but people walking past would have thought 'wtf...'

They already think I'm a sad bastard just for riding a bike...

thomas - how's the chainline/noise?

I'm no longer bikeless..... here she is. Finally built. Not everyones cup of tea i'm sure, but she's gonna be frickin' awesome on the track.
A massive thanks to danwentskiing - cheers for all your help. And to Big Daddy Wayne for the finishing touches.