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you can squeeze in axle - but i have a feelign you asked this in another thread but i couldn't be bothered to read it.

erm. i strongly recommend if you're doing this on the cheap to get the FSA crankset and chainring and bottom bracket from pearsons for £39.99

Honestly, even on the pavement, parents with children in their little pram simply charge ahead expecting us to give way automatically just because of a little person sitting in a pram.

pissed me off a lots, using their pram to push through crowd rather than going with the flow.

that wasn't what i was saying, at all.

from what i can see this bike has vertical dropouts.

that makes it a silly choice of conversion. i might be wrong.

had to search for what TTH stood for, but, who cares, just ride it.
nice seatpost by the way.
question. why the anti campag/shimano thing, wouldn't it just make it longer, and be more convoluted to build up? though thinking about it, my bike doesn't have any campag/shimano components either.

that's because your bike is made by NASA.

and maybe two folded spokecards to create as horizontal dropouts?

maybe get a spokecard to use as a chainring?

armourtex them?

your contact lenses?

probably/almost certainly 3/32 but you can run a 1/8 chain on it anyway.

or put a 3/32 sprocket on the back instead. i wouldn't bother.

saw ted doing some serious open heart surgery on a holdsworth the other day.

it's like dr frankenstein's workshop in there.

i think this article is OLD and we already stuck the knife in the old days, all the good ol' boys.

Yes you need a locking.

not for freewheel, he wants to run free. i think he thinks the hub is where the mechanism is, but i might be wrong.

nb: with regard to the cogs - you need a freewheel, not a fixed cog.

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/cid/KSRCPX6680SJA48KWZDUS2MBGLC4X1Z3/product-Parent-Single-screw-on-Freewheel-1-8inch-pitch-335.htm

you might want to get a freewheel remover at the same time.

grease - evans, any old grease. i use lithium grease mostly. also i have pedro's special grease.

what's the frame?

even though it's early days, there are two issues: not a fan of the antlers, and your chain looks really fucking slack.

hmmm, headset sounds loose.

cog will screw on, no need of lockring, self-tightening.

the independent doesn't even make the top 50 of broadsheet newspapers in this country, despite the fact there's only five or so.

however, it is the favourite read of the geography department in my school, which says it all really. they like looking at the pictures.

why not just wear green contact lenses?

If you ever go down on me when I am with my kids, even if it's pedestrian, I will be cross; but hard.

god that's exciting.

bring me my codpiece and a pedestrian crossing.

Or buy teenslain's sweet IRO... I think that's what you really meant to say...

Or buy teenslain's sweet IRO.

i'm not saying that. i don't think riding across ped crossings is acceptable. pedestrians do have priority. but also thinly veiled threats to knock people off bikes, if you were with your kids, suck as well. you weren't with your kids.

i also get fed up with the morally superior tone of those people who have children. (this is not an attack on growup) the biggest paradox is that the need to protect one's family engenders a selfishness towards others; the sole point of focus becomes the family unit, and this alters decision-making in every shape and form. this in itself is not a bad thing per se, it's also unavoidable, bit of a catch 22, etc, but it does lead to selfish decisions, and it's the moralising that underpins this that i find a bit depressing. i mean, if you don't have kids it doesn't make you an amoral being. in fact, it often means that your sense of responsibility is directed outwards, to others in general, and not in the microcosm of the child-centred universe.

i teach children, and care deeply about young people. i also recognise innately the pressures parents face, but also recognise the insular and scarily singular set of rules and codes that come with being a parent, because i see those pressures spray outwards. and personally, i'm not a fan.

*if you ever go through a pedestrian crossing when I am with my kids you are going down. Hard.

*this statement is violent and not cool.

pj u should get another bike!

i'm quite tempted.

i bought that other holdsworth because i was soooo fed up with waiting for my holdsworth to come back from colourtech. it's taking fucking YEARS.

anyway, i only have three bikes at the moment (with two frames on the way), i sold the others.

judging by your initial 'spec', you could pretty much buy anything. personally, if you got money to burn, go into BLB and buy one of the 12 or so bob jacksons they got hanging from the ceiling for £400 fat ones.

Slightly off topic but would like to share.
Followed a green framed single speed from W1 to EC1 and if you ever go through a pedestrian crossing when I am with my kids you are going down. Hard.
Thats all.

chill out. it's not like having kids makes you some sort of morally superior being. threatening to knock a cyclist off, 'hard' for going through a ped crossing is pretty lame, kids or no kids. it's hanger-and-flogger territory.

someone say "otp-haterz"?

otp is where it's at.

just the other day i saw a near-mint OTP unipack being ridden along bishopsgate by a curryer. it was sick. that's the OT-motherfucking-P daddy right there.

nothing to see at this one folks. don't go - stay at home, take the kids to the beach. treat the missus.

also jonny, is not 27x 1 1/8, but 27x1 you want. much better.