London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

I suspect rain will put a lot of people off today... and it could be either court depending on availability!

I might be there a bit plater than 5 Prav. Just spent 2 hours in a queue to get some work bound (I thought it would take 20 minutes max) so I'm a bit behind schedule.

I reckon Thunderdome, should be getter drier later according to metcheck

Louis, more than welcome to borrow my bike and mallet

Guys, add the west london courts to the map in the courts thread.
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread10937.html

I pm'd Shinscar about that a month ago Mike... the swine!

Not going to put me off, although no bike or mallet means that's probably a bad thing... and I've just had a text asking for a favour and I've got to stop a souths, so I'll be late...

BDW, your condor? Cool. ;-)

Mike, can you update shins "polo today sticky" too? at the moment it says... <edit> oh cool it's been done...

I should be down for some soggy Polo, although 5 is a bit early for me, wont be able to get down untill at least 6/6.30 ish at the earliest..

Yep i'll be there, that court will be alright wet. i got you a little something Prav.
I also got two balls - found one in my trainer?? WTF

6 is good for me, can't do 5

I also have 3 gold club shafts up for grabs for anyone who wants them.

Ah ... need to make it down to welo soon.
Cant tonight but if i make it back from paris in time next week i will be there!

Oh yeah, does anyone happen to have a couple of spare cleat bolts lying around they could spare? it would seem i am now only rocking one per foot, which isnt ideal obviously....

Urmmmm... I may have put it there...


I'm not sure about tonight. I'm not sure I fancy a 23 mile round trip on the bolo bike in the pooring rain. I should be going to a birthday party in any case.

Will let you know.

'ta

Welcome to my world

30 mile round trip for the win :-)
(although that's to/from work, not so much purely to west polo...)

Although I do "cheat" and use a flip-flop hub and double chain ring so I don't have to ride my polo gear... done it once, not doing it again.

Moog, can I nick one of those shafts off you? I was going to say that I assume you meant golf not gold, but if they're gold I'll take one too :-)

If Marcus comes down (he said he'd be down to pick up a cog from me) I make that 6 bikes and 7 people? :-)

Yeah sure, they are slightly different lengths so would you prefer a longer one or a short one (only about 60mm in it)?

I think, the longer the better... Cheers.

Good games tonight had loads of fun. I was thinking about it on the tube home and I think I definitely need to pass earlier instead of going for glory and trying to dodge round the defenders.

yup, good games, very obvious that Ed was back and on form even with Prav trying to seperate him from his fingers, got some tasty bruises as well

quick snaps of the bikes taken with the camera phone, will do some proper ones for shinny soon

moog


Provenrad


BDW

Nice sticker!

Nice one Wayne, the Polnago is looking a bit battered and bruised too. I guess that's a good sign though.

yup, some kind soul did the vinyls for me :^]

it was a pleasure, quality design!

polo was fun, although i was crap as ever. ill blame the bike... if i had an estate agent billboard on my wheel i would be ace. the Chinese food was SPICY. mouth still burning...

Nice work Wayne.

;)

Looks like you boys had fun.
If it weren't for the birthday party I had to attend I'd of been there.

next week though, next week.

Ed, you making yourself a new mallet?

I think I might just drill a new hole in the shaft of my current one and put the bolt back in. It's a bit shorter but I don't think it will be a problem.

good work Wayne. i'll get down early so you can commit mine to digital filmage

good games last night. shame the first court has no lights!

I am going to switch to spds to get the speed around the court up, those flats are a pain in the arse!

Spds are the way forward dude :)

good games indeed, that last one did finish me off though, but not hurting too bad today, and Ed cheers for the stickers, they're awesome!

Moog, Did you break it? Is that the first ever wests mallet breakage?! :-)

Will be on time next week, hopefully with the BB I've just bought installed into my polo bike...

I think the search for a flood lit west court should continue... actually in true west style we should just start renting out a floodlit court?! :-)

I took a swing for the ball and the head flew off (narrowly avoiding Mrlemon's head) over the fence. managed to fix it up with some hammering and tape though.

Oh and can whoever put "west = no polo" in the tags please remove it, as it's patently not the case! :-)

oh and mrlemon how's the finger?

not too shabby thanks, pretty sure its not broken, just badly bruised me thinks, coupla days and im sure it'll be fine :)

Just in time for another evenings crashing :-)

BWD theres some sweet charriots there matey.

Innit :D

Mallet is properly fixed now, loaded the joint up with metal epoxy so hopefully it will last a bit longer. The disadvantage of glueing means it will be near on impossible to bodge it courtside if it breaks again.

Shit shit shit! I wanted to play so baddly. I have to finish shitloads of school work though. No serious fun until it's finished :(

so you got your bike done. me pat and a few other cats should be along this mon.

anyone got a 20t freewheel they want to get rid of?

BDW got his from a beach cruiser type bike I think, maybe have a look on websites that sell that sort of stuff.

I've got a brand new never used 18t shimano freewheel. I'm looking for £20, I paid £25. Might be a bit steep for a polo part though? Just thought I'd offer it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-SCHWINN-STINGRAY-20T-FREEWHEEL-SINGLE-SPEED_W0QQitemZ290306654069QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_s portsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR?hash=item2903066 54069&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688|66% 3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

6 notes delivered - be good to see ya down there on Monday Luke

I thought that sentance was going somewhere else...

OK.
xx

Holy shit! yeah take that one, forget I ever mentioned my expensive piece of shit. I consider myself told by the BDW.

Tiny.

I use a 21 freewheel and Tramps is rocking a 26t.

I'm going to the HH jumble... will pick up any large cogs I can find...

See you at the jumble Lewes!

Throw in Monday kick off 4PM...

all day cider in the sun and a court next to the river... be good to see some new faces out

Cool... if I get the parts and sort out my build I'll be there on monday too... I'll be wearing anti incect cream this time though!