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Fixed and lycra for me. No guards for me neither. A winter road ride ain't a real road ride unless you finish it covered in mud and horseshit.

That'd be one way to go, but decent frames are hard to pick up for £80. It's easier to pick up used bars, stems, wheels, chainsets off here or ebay for reasonable prices. You can if you wish upgrade 'em later when finances allow.

About the cheapest new frame is a Dolan track frame for £117 from Ribble Cycles (not inc Fork).

Well done to Liverpool, now let's see if you can turn the vermin over on Saturday.

Porn for some... from BLB.
Had a moment contemplating a new wheel build... thought better of it.

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Hmmm, I noticed them, and am thinking yellow DVs, with yellow spokes and black hubs on a black frame. Bloke I was chatting too reckons it's easy enough to spokes your self with that enamel model paint (if you're the patient sort presumably.

Finally got my bike built up after what seems like months of preparation!

14 frame, with nice Columbus SL tubing, Sugino 75 chain set, Rigida wheels, and a beatiful set of vintage mooustache bars from Tour De Ville.

Only thing is the frame has an Ahead stem system, which I think spoils the look a bit (I'm a sucker for the aesthetics)... I've heard about a nice sleek Ahead stem, but I can't remember the brand...

Any suggetions?

Cheers.

Summat like this ?

Write once for £3.79 each + vat here, works out about £47 inc delivery. (For 10 that is)

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Articles/Index/Normal/100

Made to order for $1350

http://spicercycles.com/itemdetails.cfm?id=414

http://ibikemcr.org.uk/?q=annual-festival-2009

I love " spotted dick" ... just tried it for the 1st time, while I think its the weirdest name for a sweet cake, it was rather delicious

I hope you had it with custard. Was it a proper steamed one ?

Why are they called suicide levers?

Because they never worked properly, unless you adjusted your brakes to have approx 0.5mm of clearance between block and rim.

Here's a profile of the Bedoin climb

http://www.salite.ch/F/ventob.gif

You not flying ?

european football in whichever guise is a good thing, and should be seen as such, I can only point to how much it is valued in europe - willing to be proven wrong on that point, and if you want to get into the rhythm of playing against foreign opposition the uefa's or europa cup from next season is where it's at.
Recent winners zenit st petersburg, sevilla, porto, feyenoord, cska moscow, valencia, some like sevilla, have become more established european competitors, as well as the confidence of winning/ doing well in the europe making them one of the four or five teams challenging for the spanish title, after winning the uefa, porto went onto win the champions league. Uefa is a place to get used to european competition, effective to lure foreign players to your team, shows ambition, and ultimately makes the team stronger, as you need to rotate players to be strong in both league and cup, meaning that the club as a whole progresses.
It could be argued that english teams should have won a lot more uefa cups recently than they have done, if the managers and fans had taken it more seriously, last finalist was middlesborough in 2006, and last winners liverpool in 2001

Correct, it also provides opportunity for decent away days for fans, the most football based fun I've had in years was our game away to Schalke before Xmas. I really hope Villa don't get 4th after O'Neill played reserves in their last UEFA game.

oh alright, but the members of my Ladies Fashionable Gorilla Gimpmask Society certainly won't be buying any

Maybe they could get some off the Letchworth Fashionist Goo Girls Society ?

Probably best to do LFGSS I'd have thought.

Strange area these days, it's in the 'better' part of Moss Side I suppose, and they are described as 'affordable', they certainly will be in a year. Most of the terraced houses are rented to students or Somalians.

Shit! They turning it into flats?

Nice pics

An artist's impression. The ball thing is meant to be on what was the centre spot.

Maine Rd as pictured last summer.......

Not a good place to get trapped if you were an away fan

Nearly all the pubs nearby have shut

Ahh - the early 80s visits of Liverpool/Everton and indeed Spurs were always a bit of an 'occasion'. I used to live near the ground and once took pity on a spurs fan hiding from a baying mob in our front garden (about 1984/5), and invited him in for a brew.

You what! You never been to Maine Road then? Getting bricks and bottles chucked at you from smack'eads and car thieves - yeah, proper fans

Give over - unless you were going there in the 70s Maine Road was generally OK for an away fan. I don't miss it at all mind as it was a dump. A bit like Goodison, but not quite as bad.

It's been mentioned at least once on this thread, and was given away as a free DVD in some newspaper a while back. It's great.

Where's the coffee mug? Or is that "sold separately"?

http://www.tariksaleh.com/bike/mug.html

i don't get what bit of this is forgotten, i might be wrong but it looks like every component of this is still in production today.

Yup - Pinarello amongs others are copying the wavy chainstays.

Carbon is definitely the way to go, I've had improvements on bikes with steel and alu forks, just don't get anything to extremely light or race orientated.