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velocity boy:2) The icon/avatars are not re-sized to 32x32 rather than cropped, so if the avatar you choose is slightly too large it now looks alright.

Aww I liked the randomness of how it was before :( making my avatar look like a turd :(

Jos's was invisible though... centred on the large bit of whitespace in the middle. Made the layout look weird.

Yeah, bbcode can be added :)

It's an extension, and might act weird... but I'll try it out later today and if it appears to work I'll keep it.

This forum software is weird to say the least, but being a programmer I think I should be able to work most kinks out of the system.

I've fixed a couple of things this morning:
1) The "Who's Online" thing in the left-hand panel now sorts by username and not userId.
2) The icon/avatars are not re-sized to 32x32 rather than cropped, so if the avatar you choose is slightly too large it now looks alright.

If there are other kinks that you find kinda odd and want smoothing out (in relation to the forum software, I don't want to know what you get up to in private) then let me know and I'll see what can be done about it.

Sure, nominate the threads you want in here, but I'll limit them to 5 stickies to prevent them from going out of control.

So if we get to 5 stickies and another thread looks like it should be stickied, I'll unsticky one of the existing ones.

"what bikes do you ride" and "Let's Trade" are both stickied :)

The cable thingies on the top tube are strange.

What is that wingnut hanging for the top tube for?

drivel

mmm lovely.

See you there!

(what night?)

Me! Last Thursday.

I blame not knowing when the hill ended, I turned off 3/4 of the way up to relax my legs, did a spin in the side road, re-joined and found I couldn't make it.

I walked 10m, hopped back on and realised how close I was. If I'd known I would've pushed it, but I thought I was way off the top still (couldn't see it around that last corner).

I'm blaming not knowing the hill, my silly gearing (47x16) and squirrels.

Heh, that looks hilarious. Was it pretty quiet?

East North East of that is a dead-end circular track... no road name on Google Maps for it though.

Welcome... are you back on the bikes then?

I love the way that looks, both classic and modern at the same time.

When did you get it? And have you fitted in much riding yet?

I was going to ask if anyone went along.

How did you find it? And had you ever tried it before?

I think I'll try and take my regular bike and just swap the bars for drops rather than use a borrowed bike given that description. Though I'm right in thinking you can reserve a Fuji track bike for a small monthly/annual fee?

fixedpip:Oh and someone really needs to open a bike kitchen in London. [http://bikekitchen.org/](http://bikekitchen.org/)

God yeah, that would be awesome.

A load of guys at the cycle club I'm a member of wanted to group together to do maintenance courses. It was a grand idea, but when it came down to it very few people actually wanted to pay to do it. And you need to pay to get the space, tools and skilled trainers (just because you know how to service a bottom bracket doesn't mean you'll be very good at teaching someone else).

I'm up for some solution to bike maintenance problems, collaborative training, a bike kitchen type space, etc.

I wonder if it's possible to fund-raise to gain the space and tools. I very much doubt it, the tools perhaps but the space would be very very hard to secure.

But yes, it would be great if London had such a thing.

I'm not against the LCC, I just haven't seen evidence of their success yet. I like that they exist, just haven't felt that they are as pro-active as I would like them to be. And having experienced Condor and other shops ignore the 10% discount at their whim, I wonder whether a smaller and more closely knit chunk of spending power could help overcome that (we'd actually tell each other when a shop screwed us over - a major disincentive to denying a discount if the shop has agreed to give one).

How many people here are a member of the London Cycling Campaign?

And more to the point, why? Is it just for the 10% shop discount?

I'm thinking, if londonfgss.com gets large, that perhaps we have the spending power to request discounts for us without having to join the LCC. I can't imagine Brixton Cycles, Condor and others would say no to the idea of attracting sales from a decent sized group of people, who perhaps might make the 10% discount re-coupable over the unit savings of larger orders (because we'd all be buying specifically fixed and single-speed stuff which is a pretty narrow product range).

It's just an idea... if there aren't many LCC members, or we're just a member for the discount, then let's see if we can get the benefits from working together without the overhead of politics (which we may not necessarily agree with)... not that it stops you from being a member of the LCC too.

Yes, and do.

Or rather, why the hell not?

I keep the other side of my flip flop with a freewheel, came in handy last week or whenever it was that the locknut broke.

Anyone up for a post-work drink? I could do with one or two, would be nice if it was in a beer garden :)

I'm hoping my new brake lever arrives this week... if it does, then it's next week for me too (makes for easy removal of brake you see).

I have track ends, nice long ones.

I also have Formula hubs (I believe... the IRO ones are Formula I understand).

The locknuts on the Formulas are shit, they break. So I couldn't get as much tightness against the track ends as I wanted for fear that over-tightening would break yet another locknut.

The tugs are wonderful though, no over-tightening anywhere and they just hold the axle perfectly where you want it to be without you having to over-tighten the track bolts to achieve it.

Like adding chain tugs.

If I'd known the difference would be so great I would've done it sooner. £15 for the 8mm ones from Hubjub.co.uk , and now I have a truly sweet chain tension that has not only silenced the drivetrain but also feels like it has more feedback and responsiveness.

I'd tried getting this kind of tension before, but I could never maintain it. It always slipped a little and became loose. After a few days with chain tugs though, no slack at all :)

Lovely jubbly.

And I've worked out how to get my video online. Only took a few weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YPnCbM3UU8

Clearly I need to work out a better compression mode that doesn't lose all of the data though.

Wow, great finish by O'Grady, and a top 10 place for England too.

Really shite that Eurosport only showed an hour though.

I've started just carrying an old tea-towel that is acting as a tool-wrap.

The contents when I ride are simply:

• pedal spanner/wheel nut wrench
  
• allen keys
  
• innertubes (two)
  
• co2 thingies
  
• tyre levers
  
• a very small leatherman (screw driver, knife)
  
  

It's pretty small as kits go, but enough to do anything I would need to do on short (10 miles) to medium (60 miles) rides.

Side to side play? That's not right... did it fit the frame properly originally?

I would say go with a Royce, but this is because I enjoy being in debt.

Yeah, it's been available for a couple of months. It's an awesome video and has been submitted to the BFF. I hope it gets accepted.