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I'm going to pop in shortly after that. Depends on work.

I have some I'd consider parting with. I ride them at the moment but they're a little worse for wear. If you have something not so nice but maybe in better condition to swap for? Or something really nice and I'll throw a nice black ITM stem in too?

superdude: wheel bike to Trafalgar sq, take wheels off there, get people to carry those while you carry the rest on your back? I'll take a wheel for ya. Only thing is you have to get from pub to home at the other end, you local?

You are right. My back is a bit fucked today so I will put it on my before I leave as a test run and decide whether I can suitably htfu or not. See you for the compass bit. I'm in Brixtopn so I can re-assemble at the pub or on the way past my house. Cheers Skully.

Carry the other bike on your back and earn them boigers!

I might have to take it back in parts. It's big and unwieldy.

Wanted to have a go on the off chance, is anyone going to South's from Soho area tonight and hasn't got their bike (I know, unlikely)?

People at work have started noticing the bikes I have been storing at work in all empty spaces. I just had a thought that someone might like to earn a beer by enjoying riding one of them down to Brixton with me tonight on the way to save me (and them) having to get shitty public transport. I can meet someone by Trafalgar Square for the compass jobby thing?

Sounds like it's going to be full up this week. I'll see if I can get some cops down again like last time.

Wow I love polo. I'm going to try head down next week too. Can't wait to get some practice in. So far I have been practising:
a. my track stands
b. PPPPPPPEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

I think I have these down. Well not the track standing so much.

Cheers for lending me stuff too guys and girls.

I might pop past to watch tonight, I've been meaning to start getting into this 'polo' lark and I'm at a loose end. At Newington tonight I assume?

Cheers N3. I wait with bated breath.

P.S. How do you bate breath?

1. tika { can you do x-small or womens ts?} thanks
   
2. fresh - med t please
   
3. Hoops- Medium
   
4. maxcrowe - x large tshirt
   
5. Rik - XL
   
6. old blue eddy - large
   
7. Lukeyb - SM
   
8. Ahleks - Largo
   
9. StupidPony_large please.
   
10. teenslain - large (I'd be happy with white on black but will go with the flow)
    
11. Steff. Medium
    
12. gizmond - Medium
    
13. KevinSays - large
    
14. Cheesecake_Intl - Medium
    
15. Joesmooth - XL
    
16. Dasmiller - medium
    
17. socialamnesia - small
    
18. Daccordi - XL
    
19. Momentum - M
    
20. Markyboy - XL
    
21. Pirat - M
    
22. Superprecise - Medium
    
23. madrobar--medium please.
    
24. wools - medium
    
25. supertony007 - large please
    
26. Gregory- small
    
27. Forms - Large
    
    

Hoodies

1. Hoops - Mediun
   
2. Rik - XL
   
3. maxcrowe - x large (if gold on black)
   
4. jameslux - smal
   
5. Charco Small/ zipped
   
6. gizmond - Large
   
7. geoffersmaher (gold or white on black would be nice)
   
8. socialamnesia - medium
   
9. Pirat - M
   
10. Khornight - Large thanks
    
11. teenslain - Zipped Large (print on back... Again, would be happy with white on black)
    
12. Skully - Zip Large
    
13. Si - if traditional no zip - small
    

£3 donation a year is nothing. I'd be down with that. I'd agree with everyone who's been saying that there might various boring legal/administrative hurdles that you were heading for further down the line.

Personally, if VB makes an annual plea for donations, non-subscription related, I would probably donate more than £3 depending on how skint I was at the time.

Either way works for me, I just figure community 'donations' won't have the related monotonous administration, arguments and legal requirements that a subscription 'fee' would have.

But I don't really have any objection to the original proposal anyway. If it keeps the forum running I'm in to it.

I've never posted a wanted ad before. Maybe I have. I don't remember. Does it work?

I need a 1" headset spacer that grabs the brake cable for cantilever brakes and v-brakes. I don't know the technical term.

I'm also looking for a bike trailer, anything considered. No idea where I would keep one but I'm always coming up with ideas that involve them.

Cheers.

@doubletap, I can't find anyone who's written about it on t'internet so I'm afraid I'm not sure. I have discovered they're definately not Dura Ace 17mm though. No need to bring a heavy set though, maybe I'll just bring it down tonight and ask everyones advice then plead to borrow tools again next week.

Cheers!

Balls, I don't and I'm not going to be home until about 7 either. I vaguely remember 13 or 14 mm but I'll google around now and get back to you.

Hello all! I was just wondering if anyone was coming down tonight who might be able to help me out with a epic, 'trial and error', maintenance learning, zero cost fail.

I took apart a hub, (a loose bearing, Campag record hub), cleaned everything, re-packed it with loads and loads of good ceramic grease, put the old bearings back in, and now I'm at the stage where I'm doing the final adjustments and I just can't get it right. Always either too tight or with too much play.

I think the main reason is because I have no cone spanners and am improvising. And I'm also crap at it obviously.

Will swap beer tonight for guidance/cone spanners. Anyone?

Saw this in Berlin the other week and thought it was worth sharing pictures. Belt drive...
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Also these wheels which I am now searching for. They freakin' rock. I bet they're lighter than spoks...

The wheelbuilding class sounds good. I'm not in but I would pay money for a hub servicing class after my failures today.

Lenni, the thread reminded me to think about getting a truing stand so I just thought you might want to see that it was much cheaper on ribble...

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/productdetail.asp?productcatalogue=TACXTOOL200000000000

Think I might get one.

I picked up a Record Mavic build from the jumble on Saturday, the hub needs regreasing.

I was wondering if anyone knew whether there was a special procedure for the older style Campag record hubs. They have a grease hole in the middle of the hub covered up with a retaining clip and then it seems two grease hole one on each side of the hub.

It strikes me that it was maybe designed so you can pump grease into the central hole until you see clean grease coming out of the edge holes? This seems sensible because I would like to avoid taking the hub apart to re-grease, setting them back up afterwards is not my strong point.

Anyone done this before?

I have one somewhere. Its a Wolber hub and rim, high flange thing if I remember correctly. I took it apart and then re-built it as practice wheel building and my handy work isn't very good but it's truer than it was to begin with. I also think the axle is bent. But it might just need a service from someone who actually knows what they're doing.

It's free anyway if you would like it.

there are a few threads on this i think, but this actually happened to me today and the cop asked me if i wanted him to "scrape my remains off the road with a fork and mail them to my parents." i managed not to talk back.. but what a weirdo. a fork?

A fork? I would have thought some kind of wallpaper scraper might be more practical. Or a sheet of scrap metal or something.

I know. It doesn't really make sense. But I imagined it in my mind today when I saw a fat man in a Rapha t-shirt.

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Hip Hop since 2007

Whoops. Inverse grand slam fail.

I'm going to be well busy this week so I think I'm going to try and rock the 'inverse grand slam'. It takes quite alot of commitment though so I might end up at West's out of desperation later in the week.

Who are the hubs made by. Interested.

YouTube - La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Mix)

Love this remix. Bought it on vinyl for I don't know what reason. The original is the worst thing I've ever heard in my life though.

A favourite of mine...
YouTube - Coki - Ruff Lovin

Also...
YouTube - 16Bit - Chainsaw Calligraphy