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And I heard the fixie trend is over-ish in London with most commuter cyclists now looking for touring bikes :)

Yeah, that's what it looks like to me when I look around at who is riding what. Lot's of Dutch-style, and shoppers, and vintage, and tourers, and look at how knackered mine is sort of stuff out there. Seems the trend is diversifying.

I cant get over the amount of poorly built vintage road bikes NOT being sold at extortionate prices on ebay that have been converted to ss/fixie with simple cable/tyre/bartape and saddle change. I notices this claude butler for £350-+£40 postage .
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330914962373&fromMakeTrack=true

ftfy

Seriously though, firstly, it is expensive, and secondly, does he not know how ebay works? It is an auction, you start at zero and the market finds the price for you, which might actually be higher than the dumb starting price you had in mind (probably not in this case though).

I generally do not bother starting to bid when I see, for example, a £100 starting bid on an item which is worth about that. Whereas I would probably go for something starting at 99p, then you're in and it's too late to stop :-) you might end up paying £110 anyway, and that's fine.

^^ look like ants to jam.

Throw anvils into their handbags

One to hold the bits in place, one for the spanner, and the third for my Punk Dog.

Look, I'm not sure, but I always find them a pain to do anything with. I always had to take them entirely apart to do anything with them - well, to change the seat, and then there are loads of pieces to reassemble and I always end up marking the saddle with the spanner that you need to slide up the side.

I got authorisation for this one, so would like to put my name down, if that is OK...

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2. Eamesy
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3. Indr4Ripper
   
4. Sweats
   
5. Jake
   
6. shinkuu kiss
   
7. Dan-himself
   
8. mattioats
   
9. dave4
   
10. Big Dave
    
11. apollo
    
12. Hairnet
    14.atbeard
    
13. Booga
    
14. Tanya g
    
15. Hesa
    
16. heavisides
    
17. What?ok!
    
18. Ok123
    21: Andrew
    
    

See you there.

That's what I'm saying. I always found those old seatposts needed three hands to put them together.

Old style seatpost.

Does anyone here know what happened to Lynchman? Sounds like he got hit by a (convoy of) trucks. Last time I heard from him he was getting psyched up about coming down for the London Classic...

Yeah, that's what I figured. If you lot were aiming for 17mph I would have to bring my motorbike*. At the speed you are talking about I am probably in. Need to get authorisation first, but sounds great to me.

Would be a lovely warm up for the DD too.

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EDIT: Sounds great - correction - sounds excellent, like a fabulous ride.

But why should you look behind you when reversing? Behind you is the past, the past is gone, history. Forwards is the future, only look forwards. The cyclist shoulda known that.

Jeez.

I would love to bring my SS 29er out on this... riding it with perfect tyres for this at the moment - Twin Rails. But I got to admit I am worried about keeping up with the pace you guys might set. Are you serious about setting 17mph (earlier post) all the way - you mean when you're moving or average overall?

Anyway, I won't cry if I run out of steam, just bail and ride to the nearest train station - but I'd rather not do that.

^ That's not vignetting, that is the shape of the moon. D'oh!

I know, I know, the cars. But I thought you meant the moon photo when I first read your post.

Are the old Shimano screw on freewheels at the same standard spacing (for the same number of gears) as the cassettes (for freehubs). Specifically, I have a screw on six speed and would like to use one of these (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330909733355&var=540167232435&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en) with it. Is it going to work?

I like that idea.

I think it may have been sarcasm?

That's securely fastened as far as I can see. To take it one would have to move the lock up slightly to disengage it from the bottle cage.

The wheel on the fence... cool photo, the blue sets it off nicely. No doubt the effect the owner was after.

^ Dude!

That is cool. A very very nice guy, who did the right thing. Has made my day already, and it is only 11am.

^^^ ok, so can I give them some money for them to play with?

china, idiots, cheapest one in tescos

neeext

Yeah, I knew that, was a rhetorical question really.... is that the correct spelling.

They go to A6 cycles, Snottyotter tells them how much their cheapest new bikes are. Offers to show them the second-hand ones, but they shun them, and are directed to Tesco/Halfords/Argos.

They then return a few months later with a wreck which was never properly assembled, pleading poverty and wanting free repairs, or they come back a week later wanting their mail-order/supermarket-box bike properly assembled and are astounded by how much a mechanic's time costs to do that kind of check and setup.

Lost causes.

I don't think I would buy anything from ottysnotter either.

When I had someone like that who did the same thing, I asked them to provided me the cost of the bicycle they've paid for, put it in a spreadsheet with labour cost/repair/etc. and compared it to the cheapest OTP bicycle we sell (Jamis Trail XR), which doesn't need any servicing after a couple of months (including free service and adjustment when needed).

The supermarket one came out costing more, it's the only way I can convince them that it's not worth buying.

What is this OTP?

Those Jamis do look alright for the money... I like the way they don't waste budget on some shitty sus forks.

In terms of best outcome, the fire engine should probably have just carried on and squashed her. They could call an ambulance and carry on their way to whatever emergency they were attending. She is probably going to get splatted somewhere by something in the end, so might as well get it over with, and at least this way the ambo gets called nice and quick, by a professional, who can give the address accurately. Not sure who would be left with the responsibility of returning the Boris bike though.

The second one wasn't there yesterday so that flat tyre is new.
I personally wouldn't steal either of them but this is manchester and they would make nice crack head vehicles.

Sure, I thought that after I posted, they are both shit, and yes, they are both the sort of vehicle that is used almost exclusively by people wearing white trainers and head to toe grey tracksuit thingy (with or without a hood). Round here anyway.

I mean, what is it with this particular design of MTB? Where do they all come from, who the fuck buys them, why?

^^ That second one has been there long enough for the rear tyre to go flat.... so maybe that is secure enough. The first... who would nick it? Seriously?

I left it a couple of days before posting.

Ha ha. I bet no one else left it for a couple of days.