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I'd like to beat the hour for a 25 mile time trial, doubt I will but will keep trying

went to Steyning tonight to do what I thought was a 10 mile time trial, turned out to be 16.5 miles round Ashurst and down the A24, most of it seemed uphill apart from there's a fast downhill stretch on the A24 where I thought my shorts were going to catch fire, my arse is red raw from bouncing around at 37mph, next 16.5 I shall sell my soul and use gears

premature celebration I'm afraid

thought I'd clean the hub and sprocket while it was off the bike and must have tweaked the cone on the axle so I've spent 5 more hours trying to get the wheel on without the bearing grinding or sideways play, Sheldon assures me a happy medium is possible even though it can involve 1/10 of a turn or less

I even made my own cone wrench about 3pm

If ever they have the most incompetent mechanic award I would be a certainty for it

I'm too knackered to do anymore today, can't wait for tomorrow

the greatest day of my life....

I got the tyre on, just the 3 hours today so 12 in total

I stumbled across some old metal tyre levers from when I was a lad in the shed and they did the job in 10 minutes

I've even put some air in and so far it hasn't gone down, in a while I put the rest in and ride it

The front wheel can wait a while

or I could pay money for one! so if anyone has a leather Rolls with embroidered top and wants to sell it then please let me know

anyone want a nice smooth Rolls saddle in exchange for a Rolls that has embroidery on where one sits?

I joined Brighton Excelsior this year so I could do the time trials on a Tuesday at Steyning.

I did my first 10 last Tuesday, hope to be there next Tues but the forecast is wind and rain so I'll probably use gears

£2.50 entry on the line but I think you have to be a member of a club to do it, maybe an insurance thing, they do have a "Come and Try It" on 17th June that is open to anybody that hasn't done a tt

I got one of these, metal barrel, replaceable plastic valve head thingy, does upto 160 psi

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/productdetail.asp?productcatalogue=PARKPUMF150000000000

depends which part of Brighton, coast is flat, middle up London Road is flat, Southover Street is like everest, up by the station is a bit hilly, you can avoid most of them if you know you're way around

if the traffic is light on the roundabouts at Shoreham flyover and up from the old cement works then there's no stopping, I guess if you have the strength for a 105" gear go for it, I find 82" quite big enough

when I first saw his back wheel I wasn't certain there was a sprocket on it, looked like the chain just went round the axle

I did a 10 mile time trial tonight on the Steyning by pass, I had 50x16, one other rider was on fixed, a proper time trialist had 52x13, don't think I could pedal that down a hill

my battle is with old Campag Lambda rims

will try again on Wednesday, I'll do some weights in the meantime

I wanted them on for a time trial I'm doing on Tuesday evening but I don't want to bugger anything up between now and then so the old ones can stay on for now

temporary solution: I've put the old tyre back on, that took 10 minutes so I only wasted about 9 hours today

I shall have another go at fitting the new one next week

thanks for the suggestions, I'll give it a go when my hands stop bleeding

ok, I did break 1 lever earlier, I only have 2 left, hope they don't break

did try those, was a bit worried about pinching the inner tube, and when I used them another part of the tyre came off further along the rim

fingers and thumbs are red raw and I've run out of swear words

been trying to fit a conti 400S new tyre to my back wheel most of the day and now I've admitted defeat

tried making sure the beads are in the centre of the rim, used a drop of fairy liquid, got the wife to hold various things, tried treading on the bead, put it on the radiator for a while, converted to 3 religions and asked for devine intervention from all 3

still wont budge the last 6 inches or so

any tips?

I have a Toupe on my geared bike and it's great, however when I tried it on my fixed I thought I had a rear puncture everytime I went over a bump in the road, I now have an old Milremo saddle on my fixed that has almost no padding and it's fine, tried a Rolls once on my fixed and my nuts went numb after 15 miles

will do, many thanks

just went for a ride and it rode ok, I didn't really notice it by the end (23 miles) but I may have got used to it, maybe a new chain would be a good idea, I got the bike second hand last year and I've done about 2,000 miles on it, so the chain may have done many more, although it looks ok I'm no expert

to my untrained eye it looks as if it's dished the same

I'll buy a new chain tomorrow and see if it does the trick, if not I'll go back to the quiet sprocket

no, it's pretty average

just the noise put me off a bit, it comes from the chain going round the teeth of the sprocket which the old one didn't do, that one was pretty quiet, maybe it will take time to bed in, I'll try it tonight

just flipped my back wheel round (it's a fixed/fixed hub) but it sounds a bit crunchy, should I fit a new chain?

it looks like the sprocket has never been used unlike the old one

anyone go tonight?

I hear Jo Rowsell was there with her World Championship gold medal, decent standard of novices by the sound of it, glad my sciatica is still playing up

I guess the drugs haven't helped his voice over the years, sometimes he sounds like he's on helium rather than heroin but it seems to wear off after a few songs, definitely sounds different from 1980 though so if you go be prepared for a higher pitched PP.