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3 weeks in yellow doesn't seem an unrealistic ambition, although now they've said it it won't happen, of course

It's not like there's velodromes everywhere.

well, there's one in fucking Newport.

Yet Another Typical LFGSS Vanity Project

Off the top of my head, at track league there were at least:

10 Dolans
7 PXs (8 if you include Guy but i dont think he rode)
4 Cinellis
4 Ovals
4 Fujis
3 Kogas
2 Cervelo T1s
2 Looks

• a load of one off's
  
  

hope this is good guide to how 'common' yer bikes are!

good market penetration by the Dolan Sisters there.

Wouldn't buy it from there even if it did

oh! insider knowledge... what gives? i would have thought you'd say the opposite...

56? little?

Alfred Sargent really is a top class leather worker. I wonder if there is actually any better in Britain. Seriously? Possibly not. Magical shoes.

And some of the prices are surprisingly not so astronomic as one one expect. £240 for a piece of wearable art is reasonable to me. But many of the shoes are priced at a premium. No shock there. I apologise to one and all, but this really is a porn thread to me.

This is a fixed gear bike forum. it's for the discussion of, and regarding, fixed gear bikes. you have been very vocal in the past when people try to discuss geared bikes, have you not?

So, what exactly do you think you're playing at?

Pretty much, yes.

It's just that the willy-waving really gets my back up. Watching everybody trot out their favourite brand of brogue, for crying out loud? it's more than a reasonable man can bear.

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I really don't think i did miss the point, I've been around on this forum long enough to know that these threads are just vehicles for people to parade their cooler-than-thou knowledge of various brands; the more obscure and exclusive, the better.

You always feature prominently in these, of course.

Enjoyed the camp little 'X' mark at the end of your post - made you appear frivolously superior yet benign and playful, in exactly the way you might have wished ; cut me to the quick, i must say.

Grown men.

( presumably).

A group of grown men, bickering, on an internet forum, about whose shoes are the most traditional, esoteric, and therefore; coolest.

That is all.

They're not allowed to compete?

it's not that, don't be facetious.

it's because the best looking riders don't compete that early in the season.

i have a bigger one a bit like that, not the same model but another generic one. they're ok for larger torques, like putting on cranks etc 40NM sort of range. but they're not really to be trusted at the lower end of the range, ie : below 16nm, which is why i bought the Giustaforza, as it's got 2 - 16nm range.

with my cheap larger torque wrench i also find it hard to tell when its reached torque - it makes a sort of loud click, but the head doesn't really give - you could keep tightening.
the Giustaforza ( and the much cheaper Ritchey torque key i have, which i also highly recommend) just 'give', as the poster above said. it's very definite, and easy to use.

fnck me, what is it with torque wrenches??
i have been tightening my own nuts and bolts by hand for 20 odd years, and never ever have snapped/rounded/ruined one

i know what you mean, but i have a fancy-schmancy carbon geared bike now, and can't face hearing the carbon crack or splinter as i over-tighten.

for a while i was just using the ritchey torque key, which is a great cheap bit of kit, but is set to 5NM only, so only good for certain small bolts.

i bought one of these this week :

had put it off for a while, but finally forked out the £120, and i have to say, it's a thing of joy. very nicely made, and works in such a nice, reassuring, effortless way i love it.

when is Tom Boonen's Tour of Qatar? soon, isn't it?

no.
it's only right and proper to reserve your interest for the purer disciplines.

Flanders - Boonen. (He needs the win so badly, he'll do anything, I mean anything, to get that win)

how exactly is he going to get away from the man on the motorbike, though? he's out of form, and cancellera kicked the shit out of him in lasts years ToF..

Thor is ripe to win a classic in the rainbow jersery, you'd think.

I agree with big Andyp that Schleck probably won't win the tour this year - the pressure, the inevitablity, and the fact that he's too nice. he needs to get some simmering bitterness under his belt.

I may be interested in the Garmin! Does it have full maps of the UK or do you need to plot a route first? (I found that confusing)

can you confirm this one way or the other? does it work as a full sat. map does, ie: show you a map for whereever you do roam?

Bump.

start the new year right, lose those Xmas pounds etc, etc. you're getting a bargain here - Price Drop to £120

i would say it's not so easy to get into anymore if you don' t already own a property, because the purchase price/repayments will be roughly equivalent to the rent, and in many cases, more.

I am thinking hard about this...

I've lived in share houses since I arrived in London, and I know for a fact that the total amount paid by the tenants would have eclipsed the mortgage repayments by some margin.

Anyone want to move in?

yes, but these days the issue is getting someone to lend the money at all, and of course raising an absurdly high deposit to persuade them to do so - isn't it?

well metal.

i'm going to say steel