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It's Velorution, moving to new premises. A friend of mine works there and is designing the refit.

Unable to rep mdcc_tester sufficiently here.

Pr0n.

Conti Grand Prix 4 season tyres 28c (lighter than the touring tyres I used to have on).

they're impressive on the wet.

I don't like the GP 4 Season. I don't find them particularly good in the wet at all, and they're expensive.

But did you seen him riding it?

Let's just say it looked well-walked.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38758/Bikes/brakless_noes.jpg

This bloke last week in Notting Hill:

Rattlecanned ladies frame, smooth flat pedals, fixed and completely brakless. Well done. He even had a freewheel sprocket on the other side of the flip-flop hub. Would have loved to see that in action.

^ They've made prototypes and limited runs.

http://www.condorcycles.com/february-2010/dura-ace-carbon-cranksets.html

Fucking rad. Built with so much care and attention to detail.

Your brain is definitely over capacity, I wasn't wearing a suit. :)

My grey Swrve jeans have a slightly suit-y sheen though, might have been that.

someone who used to come to Easts but I've forgotten the name of.

Me? I said hi to you in LMNH. Having dinner with a friend before popping down to the Nocturne.

Agree, they're basically the only compact shape 26.0 bar I've found made by anyone.

I might be interested in a split order, yeah, let me get onto Tokyo Fixed and see if they know anything more.

They're not easy to come by, Tokyo Fixed are trying to order some in for me but I have no idea how long it will take or how much they cost. Will at HubJub reckoned he couldn't get hold of them.

Latin /= jazz though. Sounds like OP is digging a modal jazz sound. In terms of contemporary stuff, The Bad Plus are definitely worth checking out. Their track "And Here We Test Our Powers Of Observation" is tremendous. Also check out Polar Bear (an offshoot of Acoustic Ladyland).

I would suggest Unity by Larry Young as one of the definitive Hammond / electric organ jazz records.

Then a load of Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Crescent, and Impressions. Ascension if you're feeling adventurous.

Then also McCoy Tyner (Coltrane's pianist for many years), Keith Jarrett, and Ahmed Jahmal.

Finally, Chris Bowden's album Time Capsule is also a favourite of mine.

Hope something there takes your fancy.

Yesterday evening, at the bottom of Kingsland Road heading north, maybe 7:30-8:00pm, guy in cap on champagne-coloured fixed overtaking me at a good pace as I dawdled home. Turned to say "hi" but realised he had headphones in and game face on - possibly didn't like that I overtook him at the lights due to the phasing but maybe he always rides like that.

Hi!

Oh heck yes.

No fastback or wraparound stays, so it's unlikely to be a particularly exotic Holdsworth. Lack of cut-out lugs too suggests it's nothing particularly special. I managed to build a Holdsworth Pro with full high-end Campag and Cinelli drapery for not too much the wrong side of £500, so this is madness. £1300 for what is essentially then a reasonably nice fixeh build on a well-painted 531 frame is absurd, especially when you look at how much vintage, 'Pagged-out, italian sex that sort of dorr will get you from a decent seller.

Indeed, you can get a brand new full custom with much better kit all round for that. He's just expecting to get all the money back that he's spent on it and it don't work that way.

Same with that Bob Jackson that Hugo just posted - "very expensive bare metal respray" - you'll never get that money back.

Anyway, why was it resprayed if it's a year old, unless it was bent?

I'm sure the food got better there. That jerk chicken burger I had last week was really good.

Shame about the pedals

He puts those SPDs on everything. :(

Actually, this one's much nicer.

Tester's all about the page numbers.

Thanks Oliver, I was waiting for the real link, I knew something good couldn't possibly have come from LCC i.e. the runt of UAL

#sickburn

Refer to it as LCP, they hate that.

LCC in condoning brakless shocker.

p.s. welcome.

The Stronglight Mygal is £50 with chainring from PX at the moment. The silver version was on my beater for a year and a half and did a great job (note that you need to put the chainring on the inside of the spider for a standard 42mm chainline). Agree with flickwg though, I would go for the Track 2000, it's only ten quid more and much beefier.