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Few questions for my first fixed build...

What is the torque needed on a Sugino 75 attached to a Sugino 75 BB?
Also, how tight do I do the cog and lock nut onto the hub?

Gonna have to utilise my Japanese contacts me thinks!

Yeah, good point dogs... any progress with the cog fella?

Useless, bloody useless.
Part from Japan arrive 1 day after sending, I eventually get a tracking Number off Rene and see that Parcel Farce attempted to deliver the parcel at 7pm to my work address!
What bloody time is that to deliver?

On top of that, there is no card left to say they have delivered, only because I went looking, and they don't automatically try redeliver, you have to arrange it!

Why do we have such a poor postal service?

Yeah, i'm not really sorry, more choice for me!!! hahahaha.
I put summats up next time i get an email.

Yeah, sorry, i forgot all about it, then my mate sent a text if I was going, and am still waiting for my internet at home... Still, should have posted when I got the email!

Apologies!

DId anyone go to the sample sale at the weekend on Brick Lane?

Picked up an orange fleece number, soft shell type thing. Perfect for the current weather being a bit nippy in the morning.

Also got a black shower/waterproof jacket.

I was happy at £60 the lot.

Trying to find a garage or lockup to put my scooter in.
Have tried loads of gumtree ads and parklet sites, but not found much yet.
If anyone knows of a place going in the East End (Bethnal Green area) let me know.
I have been offered parking spaces - but it's like £100 a month and I don't need a whole space for 1 scooter... So, if I have to pay that sort of money, I would rather pay for a garage so I can store other stuff too.

Encountered a proper knobber on a scooter a few days back, nearly taking out cyclists as he weaved in and out of traffic, under taking... right cock he was. A fixed rider was having a right barney with him, dunno if he comes on here?

That junction is worse than ever... They keep moving the crossing... it's hell from Lambs Conduit Street on! And yes, the surface is worse than most MTB singletrack!

Saw this in Cycling +
Can't make my mind up on it? Would like a play on it though...

East to west this week has been a dream, well quiet, especially bottom of Bethnal Breen rd and Old St?

Cheers Dogs, let me know.
I am getting with the 18t option.

Hmmm, so your saying go with 18t? 69 seems a bit low? Would I find it a bit too low after running 49/16 or is it a great ratio with the supposed magical properties?

Anyone know who has them in stock?

Hubjub has 16 and 18 but I really want 17, have been running 49/16 on my ss, but want to run a low 70 gear inch on the fix and I am getting a 46t front with my Sugino 75.

Well, once the ethic/quality issues are sorted, where do we send the designs?
Just post them in this thread?

I bought my Nitto Pearl and a set of Nitto Bullhorn for Ben's and it cost less for both to be shipped that a set of bars in BLB!! Ok, so a slight exaggeration, but not a lot more!
£28 for the stem, and £17 for the bars. £60 the lot including postage.

Waiting for some parts from NJS-frames, worth checking them out for you Sugino 75 Cranks.

I had one of those when I was 14, found it in a catalogue shop in my home town, it was selling for £80 and it was the perfect size, just had scratched fork sticker and a small scuff on the saddle. I was like the cat who got the cream walking out the shop with it. It had concaved rims, which were great, until some fat cunt rode it into a wall and I couldn't find a replacement! Had to use a plain black rim.

Sold it 3 years later for more than I bought it for - result.

Kyle Neil Ross, quite a name that eh?
Have you checked the classifieds section on here.. might be something?

I pretty much ride like this all the time, just because once up to speed I like to keep spinning.
Also, gonna get the fixed on the road soon so kinda getting used to riding over speed bumps and turns etc whilst still pedaling - not the same i know!

Re Greasing, some say no - Sheldon says yes?
I put a very thin film on, just to ward off seizure, never had problems so far.
And yes, you need a crank puller.

Outspoken are pretty good. Not in London mind.

I went out to buy ice from the shop on Sunday, some kid (ethnicity isn't important) and his lass skulking towards me and my girl, and he throws a packet onto the floor, I was about to say something - like pick it up, there's a bin 3 feet away, when I noticed it was a kitchen knife packet, look back as I passed him, and sure enough, he had a 5-6 inch blade hidden in his hand, blade behind his forearm! Kids are seriously fucked up!

You gotta be joking, there are things to do and more jobs than when I was a kid! In my eyes, it's got more to do with them being lazy fuckers who thing menial jobs a not good enough for them, and the world owes them a living. I worked my arse off to be in the place I am today, there was no easy way out.

Also, there is no fear of authority, too much softly softly, we live in a country where everyone is worried if they offend another! The police are useless, and no one respects them?

[afterthought: oh, but not the causes of knife crime - which is what's really driving it. all that rage inside cos there's no jobs, nowhere to go and nothing to do, kids got their curfews and gotta be inside by 9pm. blah. doesn't this country make you sick sometimes?]