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Here the bikes just clutter up the office space. One in the server room, one in the meeting room, one in the... etc.

dogsballs some of the ss freewheels have 4 blocks machined onto the inner shell, never seen the tool to get it out, but suppose a hammer and a screwdriver would work.

A lockring spanner works fine for removing freewheels.

Saw a nice black Whitcomb riding up from Mornington Crescent to Camden today. Normally don't see nout but Specialized on my lunch breaks, so it was a nice surprise.

Design theory books can be pretty heavy going, but I guess that's true of most subjects. For the web you'll probably want a good introduction to text, layout and colour. The first two are covered by the siblings typography and grids. Both are still best written about in the world of print design so it requires a bit of imagination to translate them to the web.

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bringhurst/dp/0881792055/ref=sr_1_1/202-5651507-4909461?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192021457&sr=1-1]*The Elements of Typographic Style*[/ame] by Robert Bringhurst

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grid-Systems-Principles-Organizing-Design/dp/1568984650/ref=sr_1_2/202-5651507-4909461?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192021067&sr=1-2]*Grid Systems*[/ame] by Keir Elam

This book is great for all round design inspiration and thinking about the form and aesthetics of things.

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Looking-Sideways-Alan-Fletcher/dp/0714834491/ref=sr_1_1/202-5651507-4909461?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192021636&sr=1-1]*The Art of Looking Sideways*[/ame] by Alan Fletcher

Also these websites are pretty good reads:

Subtraction, The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web, Mark Boulton

millierider I think it’s more attractive when you see a pretty girl on a nice bike who actually likes ridding and love's her bike. Not a pretty girl on some random man's bike. I definitely wouldn’t get on some random bike and have him take a photo of me nor would I let some random take a photo of me on my bike (which for some reason 3 people asked at that freewheel thing) STRANGE people. But come on there are girls every where in every country who are attractive – if they ride nice bike’s its a bonus. : )

It's not that strange to take a picture of a pretty girl with a nice bike, especially a fixed gear. It's a fairly rare and photogenic thing... just what amateur photographers are after.

The site however is a bit creepy, especially the way the shots are all taken from behind or a way off. Quite voyeuristic.

It's not accessible. Also, new internet users do not expect new windows to open and quickly get confused, especially as they tend to have all their windows maximised in Windows.

It was removed from the draft XHTML spec because it's not structural, but behavioural, and therefore doesn't belong in the markup.

BillB I though BCD = Bolt Circle Diameter, the dia of the holes where you chainring bolts fit.

Bolt Circle Diameter is a the size of the circle created on the crank spider by the bolt holes. The lower the diameter, the closer to the BB they are.

All my American friends will be gutted when I tell them.

Yeah... this morning was hell cutting through the park:

oooooh yes... great idea. Can I be the battleship?

Maybe... i dunno, it depends...

Shit picture because my camera is busted, so I had to use my phone. Frame is perfectly straight and whatnot, it's brand new and has only been build up once. The headset is a threaded Shimano 105. Looking for 280 ono. It's 56 C-T

Douche bags

mr_tom And then was then searched "under suspicion of being involved with terrorism".

He works for Liberty.

I'll bet that's why they searched him ;)

tallsam They fine ppl for jaywalking so why not red light jumping on bikes?

I think they'd have to make that illegal first.

I used to be a hippy... got searched 22 times between the ages of 18 and 21 for drugs. It got quite tedious. While they were always fairly polite, if a little officious, I generally consider it pretty rude to stop someone and spend the best part of half an hour interrogating and searching them because they look like they may have drugs on them according to your prejudices. Their usual reason for searching me was "we've had calls of a a disturbance", "kids loitering", people complaining of possible drug smoking and the like. I never believed them. It would have been an impressive response time because I'd usually been standing there for about five minutes. When two of my friends and I got beaten to a pulp by a gang of 15 guys they took about 20 minutes to turn up, whereas the ambulance (my friend's skull got fractured) took about 5 minutes. One of the first questions they asked me, my face generally bleeding everywhere, was if I had been doing anything illegal.

I've got a 56cm (C-T) track frame. I'm after a something smaller myself but you can have it for monies. Whisper me if you are interested.

the wheels on my bike go round and round...

TheBrick(Tommy) "The cyclist has protested his innocence and insisted he was a pawn in an anti-doping plan to keep money flowing to testing labs. "

Yep those labs are facing tough times, gota drum up som biz somehow.

"The cyclist blamed his drug usage on capitalism."

Dude... Barry White aint ever comin' back.

jv whats a buff? where can i get one?

http://buff.es/newen.htm

It's a scarf/bandana type thing. I have a couple friends have given me because of my nickname. They're good for covering your neck and mouth. Not so great if you wear glasses though.

Got my pack this morning. I've been ringing the bell every time i want tea but my coworkers aren't catching on. No top trumps

hippy
Taken by me with my phone on a clubrun near Woking..

Nice pic... but argh the blue! If I could be bothered to spend more than a minute or two on this I could even out the colour of the road...

I love riding through tree lined roads. All the better if there is a country pub a few corners ahead!

That's a really nice ride. You did a good job there

BillB IMHO Paying over the odds for a bike you like is better than getting a great deal on a bike you don't like. If your happy its money well spent. I certainly got some of my bits cheap and payed over the odds for others (I also made the job of replacing drop outs far more difficult than it needed to be), I'm enjoying the bike though and that is what matters.

I want to agree with this. If you're happy with it, then whatever. Time costs money and not everyone wants to spend their time hunting down frames on ebay, finding out seat post sizing, getting chainlines right and so on. But Brick Lane Bikes charged WAY over the odds for even the simplest components and should be ashamed of themselves. Your customers are your business and treating them like that is a pretty strong statement.

htay
I just hope that BLB are as decent as my LBS (where i picked up the Bob Jackson)- i rode in the other day and said that I'd like to change my sproket- and was truly amazed when they pulled out a new one, swapped it over with my old one, whilest i was waiting, and didn't charge me anything, at all. Fucking legends. You definitely deserve it after dropping £1000 there.

Would that be Putney Cycles?

BRM666 That would cause a problem for the FGSS site I was looking to set up for gingers...

Lol