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Just finished building up my pompino commuter/winter training fixed gear bike...

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I really like this. I'm planning a pretty similar build, but with the white frame, and without the white components. Which brakes are those? Mini-v's of some sort, right?

But surely a winter bike needs mudguards?

You're forgetting Sanfords Loops are inadmissable after the Southward equinox. You'll have to retreat to Grange Hill.

That's one of the least objectionable parts

Radio 1 are playing a song about this new fixie riding craze...thought you might enjoy

http://soundcloud.com/justdip/mikill-pane-dirty-rider

[html] Mikill Pane - Dirty Rider by justdip[/html]

Great, thanks again tester. Dolan say the hubs are sealed so if they're Novatec that's a plus, and if they're Quando, they're at least not bottom of the range. I reckon they'll be worth a punt then.

What hubs are in the Navigator wheels that Dolan sell?

http://www.dolan-bikes.com/Dolan-Components/Wheels/Navi/Navigator%20Pista%20Track%20Wheels

Are they on a par with respected hubs like Novatec or ones like Quando that people say to avoid?

^uniqlo

^ similar to this:
Road bike stunts by Fair Wheel Bikes - YouTube

Received mine today, thanks very much! Forum donation incoming.

Also rogan if you get a chance, you should definitely get out and do it. I've been thinking about it vaguely ever since seeing EdScoble's similar trip, and I'm so glad I finally got round to it!

Yeah, road surfaces were for the most part surprisingly excellent, I guess it helps that they don't get much traffic. I was on 23c tyres and no problem with comfort or grip even when a little wet and muddy. The bike will be needing a serious clean though, it was great weather but there was a lot of muddy puddles and stuff as it's been a pretty wet summer.

Back from 3 days in the Lake District, wow it is absolutely beautiful. Well, two half days and one full day really, as the train journey takes roughly 4 hours from Euston to Windermere. Stayed at YHAs Ekdsdale and Hawskead for the princely sum of £10 each a night, with massive breakfast for a fiver extra and three course evening meals with plenty of beers coming to less than £20. All in, the total trip including return trains was £120 - not bad! Virgin Train's bike reservation system is bloody annoying but the staff were great and it worked ok in this instance - helped by seeing on the forum that you can use East Coast's website to book a bike reservation online.

The views and scenery were amongst the very best I've seen anywhere in the world, the roads were empty except for sheep, the drivers were considerate and the hills were punishingly steep on the way up and exhilaratingly fast on the way down. Anyway enough words, here's some maps and crap photos that don't do it anything like justice.

(Apologies for loads of big pics)

Day 1:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1774987

Day 2:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1775124

Day 3:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1775132

Argh, sorry but on consideration I'm going to have to pull out. I really want it but no space or money. Looks like a fantastic amount of bike for the money, good luck with the sale.

i iz confused. Am I right that normal thinking is that steep angles and little rake (which is the same as offset right?) give twitchy/fast steering? Which is what track bikes have.

Whereas slack angles and big rake gives slow and stable steering, which is what eg. Dutch bikes have.

Tester, are you saying this is incorrect? Is there a good online article to explain all this? Wikipedia didn't clear anything up for my stupid brain.

I would love one of your foldies, but I'm not around in London until Monday. Let me know if they become available again please! Thanks

Ah, mad expensive. Thanks

that's not a nun puncher, that's a punching nun

Ed, what brake levers are they?

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The Guardian is not plural.

Hmm I think it sounds right in the plural. I don't know what Oliver Schick would think about this, but in my head it's like a football team. It is always, unless you're American, 'Arsenal have signed a new player' not 'Arsenal has signed a new player'. In my head this is because it represents a collective group, but I could well be wrong.

Guardian style guide has this to say, and I would agree:

**a or an before H? **

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Use an before a silent H: an heir, an hour, an honest  politician, an honorary consul; use a before an aspirated H: a hero, a  hotel, a historian (but don't change a direct quote if the speaker says,  for example, "an historic"). With abbreviations, be guided by  pronunciation: eg an LSE student                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Also Eightball if you're thinking it should be dreamt, personally I think that's ridiculous, and the Guardian also agree:

dreamed
not dreamt

Oh that's shitty :(

But this is why I would be happy to give anybody who is kind enough to lend me a Garmin a big cash deposit, returnable only when I hand them back their fully working Garmin right after my trip.

But yeah I understand of course why some people wouldn't want to, just thought it was worth asking.

Yeah thanks for the tip, my mate will be bringing OS maps in case of getting properly lost. I'd still like a Garmin because I find it really annoying having to stop at every junction to check if it's the right way or not. I'd like to be easy-going about getting lost, but I'm a bit neurotic deep down, and I like to know where I am.

Also, we'll have hostels booked so need to get to specific places by specific times, and the Lake District is mad hilly and this trip will be pushing the limits of my ability/fitness, so I don't really want to be going further and climbing more than necessary, which is why I reckon a Garmin would be awesome.

It's only about how much your prepared to pay anyway - no doubt somewhere on London Fine Pens and Writing Implements there is a thread where they find it stupid/hilarious that people pay £1000s for a bike wheel.

Crossposting this from the AQA thread, in the hope that I'll find a kind soul that can help me out.

Does anybody have a Garmin 705 or 800 I could borrow this weekend for some beers/ a small fee?

I'm (probably) going on cycling trip in the Lake District and it would be an awful lot easier to have sat nav compared to making millions of tiny cue sheets and sellotaping them to my stem, which is what I usually do. I've not used a Garmin before but I figure it will be easy to use, but I can't afford to spend the £190 it costs to buy a brand new 705.

I could pay a deposit in case of worries about me breaking it or not returning it, and I would come to collect it off you. It would need to be by Thursday.

(I understand this is a lot to ask, but I figured if you don't ask, you don't get!)