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if i was faster she'd been knocked down too, wouldnt she?

No - you'd have been past her before she stepped back. Acceleration fail!

I'm out, due to drinking way to much last night and I think I may have fallen off my bike and fucked me ankle.

Worth quoting for anyone that missed it first time round.

So just how pissed were you?

Well done Kurt! Look out for me on your travels. I'll either be the van that gets right out of your way when you're hurtling past on blues and twos or your next cardio casualty on the slopes of Shooters Hill.
Congrats!

Well, pleased to report that sprockets have been swapped and the job was a walk in the park. Next time I need something a bit more challenging. Brake blocks?

Happyknees is a sprocket called nineteen.

Fitted and tested in a headwind and pleased to report it's much better.

For the record, sprocket ordered on Sunday evening from hubjub and chainwhip from SJS. Sprocket arrived Tuesday and chainwhip today (Thursday).

Next swap is a shorter stem.

Pah, Hippy'll be along with a reepost soon ;)

My tip of the day on this subject - check the tools you are carrying actually do the job you intend to use them for.

I tried to take my rear wheel off earlier using a cheap and nasty 8 way spanner. All I succedded in doing was bending the spanner beyond repair. That's now in the bin and a man size 15mm ring spanner has joined my tool kit.

having lurked on here for a while before joining, i assumed you were quite the fixed gear afficianado.

I've had a few bikes in my time but only the one fixed gear and up until recently I've never really done any maintenance myself (read that as none of my previous bikes have ever been maintained).

This morning at 6:40, single speed paper boy at one of the mini roundabouts on Westcombe Park Road, SE3. That was me trackstanding the tranny. I waited and waited and waited because you did actually have right of way.............

just a thought - but with a front break and no mechanism / ability to break the rear wheel, any attempt to break quickly will likely result in a jolly over the handlebars.

I never have this problem as I always get up early, have a quick cuppa and then leave for work, thus skipping brakefast.

Thanks moog!

I've just ordered a new sprocket and chain whip / lockring tool.

Having never swapped one of these I've a numptie question.

I assume the lockring is threaded the opposite way to the sprocket. Which one is threaded 'back to front' ie turn anti clockwise to do up?

I'd hate to beat the granny out of the lockring trying to undo it when I'm infact tightening it further.

OK, so I've utfs and, instead of starting a new thread, I've found and tacked my question on this one.

Here's my dilemma. I only did a skid once and that was mostly by accident. At the moment I'm running with a front brake. Does the collective intelligence that is londonfgss.com think that if I htfu and remove the aforementioned brake I will learn to skid properly and quicker than if I leave the brake on?

I also have no foot retention and don't wear a helmet.

Thanks in advance.

It's almost as bad as starting a thread without UTFS first........... almost

Never had such an injury and I'm an unsympathetic git to boot but I'll borrow your bike for a few weeks if that help.

Just kidding - Heal soon!

After riding the plastic fantastic geared toy all summer I finally went for a reasonable ride on the 'ole Steamroller this afternoon. Probably covered about 25 or so miles with no problems but never really spun out so am going to try a lower gear. Current set up is 48:18 so I've ordered a 19t sprocket. Like the OP I feel I should be loving my ageing knees.

SJS Cycles are selling the 3/32 Shimano tool for 19.99 compared with 29.99 for the 1/8 version.

Just ordered on. Ta for the recommendations guys.

^wac

fixed ;)

Let's hope it doesn't turn out that the guy had just heard that his partner or child had been rushed to hospital or that his house was on fire. You know, bad driving for sure but let's not jump the gun....

Last year I was driving through Peckham and spotted in my mirrors someone driving like a real arse. He was overtaking recklesly and generally barging his way through. I gave him a bit of wide white van action when he tried to carve past me at some point but he eventually got past me by using a bus lane. I did feel slightly bad when I spotted him parked 1/4 mile later by a car that was wrapped round a tree.

edit - for sake of clarity he was rushing to the accident and not the cause of it.

^ that a letter O and a zero :)

Po-po might also need to add driving a stolen car on false plates to the list. That doesn't come up as a valid registration.

[cough] oh yes it does - VO03UUF [/cough]

I don't suppose anyone happened to spot if it had satnav installed. I could do with an up to date disc for mine.

(£16,000) Gone in 60 seconds.

Pleasing to see the pop up rear seat roll bars work though. Always wondered how effective they are.

When some cunt smashed up my car with CCTV 50yrds away, plod couldn't give a fuck. I had to pay the council £50 to ask them to view CCTV. Unsurprisingly the CCTV 'wasn't working' on the day it happened. They told me this after I'd paid them.

Good for fuck all Lambeth Council cunts!

I can assure you Lambeth's CCTV works fine, especially when I barely put 2 wheels into the last 10 feet or so of a bus lane to get past a queue of traffic turning right. Bastards!

well done for following it up - he did get off lightly but he might think twice before being such a cunt again

+1

Gotta say, white van drivers - I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire ;)

Now down to serious business, can those comments regarding the incorrect reg number be removed? Googling the reg. number to find the top hit is accusing the driver of being a child rapist is not clever!