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Search the threads. This has been covered and covered.

And, no.

Well, surely the genius is in the idea - the rest is just implementation details :-)

hippy
Musaba Etai(sp?) in the west-end was kinda cool

That's be Busaba Eathai. Same guy who did Wagammamas.

t'would be good if you could turn the london eye's in the title picture into allospocks.

Think I'll ignore Kowalski's advice - it took him about 4.5 centuries to get a bike on the road ;-)

eeehhhh Nor am I. I'd go as far as saying there is no link.

Don't we have a torie candidate on here who rides a fixed condor? Hardly progressive.

I'm pretty sure that Mouse isn't ACTUALLY a tori candidate. It was just the amusing caption he put under his (pretty preppy) photo.

ro-LAND Mash, the same thing happened to me. I thought that the crank had just got loose, and retightened it. From that point on, it would loosen very quickly.

Basically I had worn down the 'square' on the BB so that needed to be replaced. The crank arm is now my office paperweight...

So, just to check. will I need a new BB, or just a new crank arm.?

Cheers ro-LAND, it does seem to me that I need a new crank arm.

I think a trip to my LBS is in order.

Best Italian in town: Ciao Bella on Lamb's Conduit street. Great prices, massive pasta portions, and a fat pianist. Awesome. But don't have the risotto.

xroads Riding a loose crank, can butcher it. If the taper square looks butchered on the crank, I would replace it, as the extra play will cause it to loosen itself. Always a good idea to tighten crank bolts, especially when new, as they tend to loosen.

How would it look if it were 'butchered'? Mis-shapen or mis-aligned or something?

Cheers Jon, I probably need that kind of 'safe not sorry' advice.

Oh, and rather than have threadlock / not threadlock worries, if it is screwed I will probably be laying out for a new crank set.

How do I pronounce Sugino ? ;-)

Thanks for the responses guys - except you Dale :-)

So, the crank / BB were bought new with the bike, from Condor, so there shouldn't be a mismatch.

It's about one year old - not sure it should have become butchered in that time? I will ride it home very gingerly and then get a crank extractor tool and see what I can see.

So, I have a bit of a problem:

Last week on my commute home I noticed that my right pedal stroke felt a bit 'loose'. I put it down to my cleat needing tightening and looked at it when I got back. It seemed that the main crank bolt, into the BB, had started to come undone. Thinking to myself "I'm sure that's not meant to happen", I cycled it over to a friend's house. On the way there, it got a LOT looser. Dangerously so, kinda hanging and wobbling, loose. Of course, I decided to tighten it up as much as possible and hope that nothing was REALLY broken.

This morning it started coming loose again. Damn.

So, it seems that something is properly broken - what should I be checking?

I am now realising that if I'd built my own bike, I'd know how all these bits hang togeter...

Slack i saw Mashton in john snow on friday, well at least i think it was him having never met him fo sho' and i saw Pistanator and his very nice velos on saturday as i carried off a pair of wheels..

Nah, not me - I was on my way to a disastrous weekend in Amsterdam. I wonder if I have a doppleganger?

well: lug detailing and hinge detailing can't be too different can they?

Oh, you guys. Thanks.

Just got back from boozy lunch and feeling good :-)

Thanks for the info hipster.

we can all see those stats- in the members page. You can even grab the table into Excel for doing cunning graphs and stuff.

If you are bored at work, for example...

BTW, if you do that, you can discover that hippy posts at an average rate of 4 comments per second. 24 hours a day.

Maybe we should be able to nomiate people for deletion. If enough users (all with a minimum post count maybe) vote for it then we get to bin the user.

It could be like big brother. We could have a daily eviction.

God, as I typed that I began to hate myself. I may end up speding my dotage in a Gentlemen's club which doesn't admit women or people who play golf.

Help.

come on hippy, you know the rules. 5000 posts before aussies are allowed to sell anything. You are a nooob.

In seriousness I agree with Jon's idea. This community of ours is becoming a bit too much like a shopping mall.

Jon, I think you should maim him.

In a nice way.

Whilst pj mocks him in a sarcastic manner. And hippy dresses him in pink.

... repeat x 30 ...

who for spokearro?

Neone wannaro spoke?

@jonny: looks like I'm going to be in a meeting over in Hammersmith anyway. I'll see you at the pub. :-)