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vanilla or jonny cycles for me. love their bikes.
i dont think there's such a thing as a bike for life. your taste and purpose/use may yet change.
for me id be happy with a bike built from a £1k colnago frameset for sunday fair weather riding
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check here
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if you split it, you can prob get over £500 for it. but that's cheap IMO
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As for the frame breakage I would either get it repaired or get a new frame...
cant think of any other options apart from those two
sorry, but that statement is extremely unhelpful
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using brakes is not "street". Geez, get with the programme, hippy
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artist was probably lurking through the forum and saw this...
...a BDW original production
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...does anyone know how old the frame is? could anyone make an educated guess?
cheers.not that old. road frame yet no downtube gear boss. possibly late 80s early 90s?
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get there early then guys. ask to marshal the finish. best place to take a YouTube - How NOT To Take a Photo-1st Stage,Tour de France1994
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what's the budget?
would you pay around £300 for this? 55cm and fixed tho (minus the lights and pedals)
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...p.s. I like my track bike if not the colour scheme. I have decided to refine it for racing and not the road.
Rebuilt the front wheel lighter already.right. was gonna say first dibs on your current one ;-)
im getting rid of my conversion. i want a proper track bike now (ended up with a sht hire bike at HH last week). much prefer to go modern tho. alu and carbon fork track
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join dogsballs' club, scot. :p
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stu, building a new track bike or swapping frames?
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no idea what the groove is for. oh well. mine's been on for about a yr now and still no probs.
one BB tool will do. two if you want to do it up double time!
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oh grammar police of lfgss
bmmf, platini, who else?
tommy claims it's his typing
then there's chris' fucked up spelling
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@ilovesteel. where did you copy and paste your list from? dude, you cut off a few people. tsk tsk tsk
1.teenslain (if his knees/spine are in working order)
- andyp
- Mini..Cooper (I'm all for the B group)
- dulwichrider
- J-D-S-H
- Buffalo Bill
- hillbilly (I want to beaten by MikeC)
8.GrowUp (Mrs says yes ) - Sainsburys Ed (I will have a 'proper' track bike by september)
- claus
11.eyebrows - jonny
- fruitbat (I'm all for the over 45, slow, C group)
- Shoot
- runtime
- fatboyralph
- mashton
- Cornelius "Apone" Blackfoot
- Tom. (hopefully have the Kiyo all tracked up by then) - assuming that the missus lets me
- babydinotrackboy
- pajamas
- ilovesteel
- andyp
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"traded it in for a pair of skinny jeans and a keffiyeh"
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thought it was cool when the french guys first came out with this. lots of skill and strength involved. looked like it evolved from climbing. running/climbing is to freerunning as cycling is to tricks. same sht.
one of the martial arts featured in bloodsport couldve been capoeira. the black dude, always very low on his stance. does the thomas flare (or is it flair?) thing on the floor and jumps on people's back, chops their head like a coconut...gonna have to grab that film now to check! on another film, eric bana doing his kickboxing moves in the film the castle. his kicks were awkward as fck...would pass as capoeira LOL
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sorry to hear bout the pink surly loss, emilia. grab shinscar's bike. looks like your surly's long lost twin ;p
but yeh, good to hear you didnt damage yourself too bad. i think that's the same corner where simonc had a big faceplant
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To be honest it seems pretty friendly and inclusive so far
you're one of the lucky ones. may have something to do with you rolling on white tyres? ;p
nice friendly folks here, i agree, but from time to time snobbiness comes up. fixed vs ss'ers, hybrids, tourers, roadies, bromptongers, anyone in hi-vi, etc etc etc
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and you think that doesn't happen here? c'mon now
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dont see anything wrong with his blog to be honest. i think he unwittingly touched a nerve...hipsters dont want to be called hipsters kinda thing.
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true. people were lapped in all the 10-12lap races this past saturday.
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"The rest don't know, don't care or don't give a flying fuck." ... or might not be able to choose. If you're sitting somewhere in a poor country with nothing to eat, I guess you don't really care if burning down some trees is sustainable or increases your carbon footprint, as long as it gets you through the next week.
...or send your kids to work rather than to school, as long as it gets you and your family through the next day
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...There were fewer people on bikes for sure... but somehow it seemed to me that all the cars were going especially fast?! Or maybe it was just because I was going so slowly...
it is in psssn rain that drivers drive like fckheads! driver's (esp buses and lorries!) visibility is reduced cos of road spray. stay well away! also, the speed they go at remains the same and most do not drive according to the conditions.
top this off with peds, peeking through their umbrellas, only look at car headlights. this is why the more cyclists there are (numpties or not) the better. increased presence = increased awareness for the likes of us
it's not fun riding in the rain
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if you start off by calling it a project, your headed for trouble. why the fck are they called projects anyway? is this business talk creeping into the scene? do people call it a project so that they can put it in their CVs?
just build a bike to ride. full stop.