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Are you restoring it for love, or money?
If the latter, then the answers to your two questions are "Sadly, no" and "About £30 and a Curly Wurly".

Is the Profile Racing link invisible to you or something? That's your product, right there. Hope/CK/WI quality. What more are you after?

Truth be told, I can't hear the ping-pong in traffic. As soon as I'm off the beaten track though, it sounds gash.
Cassettes and freehubs make sense to me. In my limited experience they last a lot longer than freewheels.

Sorry for my ignorance but... Why not just by a standard freewheel and put it on a flip flop track hub where you could even have two freewheels?

A question answered (albeit with another question) right at the top of Profile's product page;

*"Have a track frame you want to make into a single speed, and really hate freewheels?"

*I've been running a traditional 120mm SS setup (Shimano SF-MX30 on Formula Double Track hub) for only a few weeks now, and can already see why anyone who rides SS full-time might want something that doesn't sound like two midgets engaged in a ping-pong rally inside their freewheel. When I coast, it's smooth, silent and really fast. When I pedal, I wonder what the fuck's going on in there.
WI Freewheels are great if you're absolutely sure what size you want. For the rest of us, the arrival of a cassette SS hub is just common sense.

^ Where is this? I reckon I can get there today and nab the one on the left before the owners come back.

Here, in Los Angeles.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3688/9571486725_d99a0bd019_o.jpg

We were inside looking at great tits, courtesy of the dearly deceased Helmut Newton. Upon leaving, we were ticked off for locking our bikes there (far right in the above pic). Apparently they should have been booked into the underground parking garage, out of sight of all the Canary Wharf types sat out in the sun sipping Chardonnay. Rent-a-cops were actually very nice, and clearly couldn't tell an unlocked frameset from a secured one...

If you're taking the coast road round to Catania, try and spend an afternoon in the Laghetti di Marinello. This remains my favourite beach of all time. It's stunning.

Vulcano's not a bad a day trip, just a short hop from Milazzo. Climb a volcano before lunchtime.

That's a little unkind. It's a bit more interesting than that.
I'd lap it, but I wouldn't give anyone $50k for it.

At the last supper, Jesus takes the bread, blesses it, and says,* "Take this, all of you, and eat it, for this is my body."
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He then proceeds to bless the wine and says, "Take this, all of you, and drink it, for this is my blood."

Finally, he picks up the milk, but Peter looks at him and says,* "You can fuck off." *

The cranks look super-rough and hastily done to me. I'd be tempted to do some more wet-sanding (2000-grit) and then clearcoat them. Off the bike, pedals off, chainrings off.

There was an exhibition of those a few years ago. Truly amazing prints.

• many triangles of metal welded together
  
• yes
  
• a decent amount of money
  
• possibly, unless you live in a complete shithole / Russia
  
• maybe. maybe not. see above.
  no worries, my pleasure, thank me later, etc.
  

Red clamp chimes with brake ano and spoke nipples. I like it. Excessive graphics are excessive though.

This thread now has me wondering which Cannondale CAAD framesets I should be hunting for on CL if I want 'Handmade in the USA' and relatively skinny rear stays.

She is still denying that she did anything wrong. The only thing she has learnt is that if you can afford a lawyer he might con a jury into letting you out on the road again to injure some more people.

^This.
It's getting to the point where she should be given a tattoo to remind herself of her cuntishness (or is it cuntliness?).
Cheaper than prison.

I remember reading something ages ago about how 3s were always the exception, and it was odd numbers for 4 doors (sedans?) and even for the two door fun ones. May have imagined it though.

Vaguely possible when there was just the 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8-Series. Even then, the E30 3er threw a colossal spanner in the works by being available as a two-door, four-door, cabrio, Baur cabrio and Touring.
Then along came the Zs, and fucked the previous naming conventions right up with the Z1. And why is the Z4 not called the Z3? It's just a newer incarnation of a car that was roughly the same size, weight and 'class'.
Then, along came the 4x4s and the need to make an M-version of those. BMW decided to go with 'X5M' etc, when they really should have gone with XM5, or M5X. They put the cart before the horse, and that was a mistake that led to...
...the 1M. Why not re-use the M1 name? It's not like the two cars could ever be confused, there's no awkward X floating around, and you can bet your sticky-taped arse they're never likely to make a car called the 3M. Most modern BMW customers don't even know what an M1 is, and most car geeks talk in chassis codes anyway.
Then, along came all this S-Drive / X-Drive bullshit. Honestly, WTF was wrong with '535ix' and '325ix'?
Then, along came the new i3 concept, which, as far as I can tell, should clearly be christened the 2-Series.
Don't get me started on the 6-Series Gran Coupé.

Daft cunts, I tell ye.

powering it out the saddle on the flats and riding on the pavement can >>>>

You missed out RLJing too

They're lovely bikes, but I'm certainly not a fan of 'you must own a Moots to wear this jersey'. How to kill the appeal of a jersey stone-dead.

It's fairly common for people to trick out the big ticket parts of the groupset (cranks being the most notable), and then to cut corners on the consumable parts (cassette, chain) and the parts that others may not notice (rear der).

I agree about Cassette and Chain, but I think everyone notices the rear derailleur. To me the most 'invisible' components after the aforementioned are the front mech and brake calipers.

Love it. Laguna Seca Blue please, and a size down on the wheels.
That company have fucked up their nomenclature good and proper though, I have to hand it to them.

Heaven forbid that one might actually need skill and patience to accomplish something.

How can the word 'bling' sum up a bike with absolutely no chrome, boring parts and an utterly humdrum wheelset?

Take it to the professionals, every time. No pro I know would ever clean their own 35mm sensor. The only sensor I've ever cleaned myself is on a Medium-Format digital back, as the access is so much greater.
I find it quite ironic that sensor cleaning kits are marketed to the owners of the most difficult-to-clean cameras (DSLR APS-C and smaller sensors).

Nice car, ace paint colour, anti wheels. Too bling.

When your seat tube's twice as thick as your forks, you're in trouble.

Maserati Tipo? Nick Mason's got a couple, jammy sod.

'Tipo' simply means 'Type'.
Type 60 & 61 are the front-engined 'Birdcages'.

Condescending and generalising much?

Very, very much.

Sierra Cossies are overrated, btw. The important RWD Fords came long before it.

I did this today. Spot the error, Luckily I was in a posh part of town patrolled by rent-a-cops.