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RPM [quote]velocity boy And they look terrible.

especially in that horrible yellow colour they do![/quote]
It's not finished yet!

Just you wait a week... I'll have my new wheels then. It will look lovely.

Just put the link in as if you are linking to the page :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5MyPx4ij4

It's £350 For a custom Jackson frame (fork not included I don't think), which is basically the same as off the peg but a choice of colours and the geometry adjusted to you. You pay a lot more when you add other bits of customisation.

Sidi Dominator 5

Fab :) See you there (if you're riding).

Actually, I've thought about it. And none of you should get a Bob Jackson. They're terrible bikes, can't handle the weather. Really uncomfortable. Non-standard thread on the bottom bracket, track ends only take some axles. You won't find a seat post for them either. And they look terrible.

(Trying to keep the numbers of Bob Jacksons down so I feel special.)
(Not special as in shoulder biter.)

In the TdF warm-up category Moving Target let us know about a courier race:
http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/courier-race-at-smithfield-nocturne

The site for this as details come out is:
http://www.smithfieldnocturne.co.uk/

A summary:

The Smithfield Nocturne is set to be the premier event in advance of the Tour de France coming to London. Held around the historic Smithfield Market on Saturday 23rd June it will be the official event for the Corporation of London’s promotion of the TDF. With historic bikes, ProTour cyclists, an elite criterium and a quintessentially British feel it will be an amazing night for the 5000 people expected to attend.

The evening will start with a parade by local school children which will be followed by a rather unique messenger race which will incorporate teams from some of London’s best know courier firms. The messengers will take part in a delivery and pick up challenge with packages and points around the route that need to be collected and signed off. With lots of zig-zagging and stopping and starting it is expected to be a real crowd pleaser and a fiercely competitive event!

Following our messenger race we will be featuring a “Le Mans Start” folding bike race – wherein competitors in full overalls will wait 15m away from their folded bikes, on the drop of the British Flag the competitors will run to their steeds, build them and set off on a 5 lap dash. We hope this will provide much amusement for competitors and spectators alike.

Our “All Star Challenge” will be exactly that – 20 famous faces lining up to sprint round the highly technical course. We will be inviting a variety of celebrities from old Tour de France cyclists, to news readers and TV celebrities to models and industry “faces”.

The evening will finish with the race “proper”. An elite criterium that will feature some of the UK’s very best cyclists, the 40km race will be technical, fast and very tough. To spice things up for the domestic riders we will be bringing in cyclists who will, two weeks later, be on the Tour de France Start ramp in Westminster. Already confirmed we have David Millar, one of the hot favourites to take the yellow jersey on the 7th July.

I'm off to see Jarvis Cocker that night... so no Nocturne for me, but it looks like a pretty great evening. The messenger race and the crit would be the highlights in my book. Watching Elites race crits is pretty impressive and not all of them dope ;)

Just ask for them not to put the decals on :)

Mine's custom.

Basically they're site is shite, but look at their colour palettes and pick a colour. You pay little bits more for more than a standard all over colour (I paid more for white trim on lugs).

Then I emailed them, told them I wanted a custom Pista. They wanted me to visit them for a fitting (they're in Leeds), I couldn't make it so I gave them measurements from a Cycle Fit fitting. Then I told them the customisations I wanted; 853 tubing, wrap-over seat stays, lug trims. They confirmed the price and time it would take.

I then heard nothing for a month. They're a bit slow at responding to emails too. It arrived at work... I smiled :)

Things I forgot to triple-check at the time but found out later:

1. Threading of the bottom bracket - it should've been obvious, it's British.
   
2. Fork width - 1" 1/8th.
   
3. Stay spacing - 120mm.
   

I love mine.

Buy whatever you want, but if I were you... I'd wait.

Have you seen mine?

It's sex on a yellow stick.

Attempting to coast.

It will happen when:
1) You've built a nice cadence up a hill and think you can relax for a moment.
2) You know you need to stop in 50m and think you can coast to that spot.
3) You've spun up really quickly and think you can pause to take a breather.

In all of those situations one of two things can happen:
1) Your feet feel suddenly weightless, then like they're being dragged, and your muscles seem to spasm as they attempt to go to the memory of coasting but find themselves still spinning. It's weird but not dangerous, and will happen quite a bit at first.
2) Your legs are too tight or locked, and the foot towards the rear will lock for a moment and lift you out of the seat... buckaroo. This can be pretty dangerous.

How to avoid these things: Apply pressure always. Simple enough :)

If you're going on the road bear in mind this too... better to overtake on the outside where you might've previously chosen the inside track. Pedal strike against the kerb is a hazard.

I'm going to reverse on what I said... you could probably get it in, but I don't think I'd want to try. You'd never get the thing out later. That would matter to me.

It'd be tight, should still fit though.

What did he measure with?

My Phils arrived this morning, I am so grinning now. Easily pleased I am.

Ben Broomfield-Hill? That's quite a double-barrel.

Well, I didn't leave anyone behind ;)

I was looking all the time, and if I saw I was breaking free I just slowed up until they caught up.

Does anyone remember this?
http://www.thisiswhy.co.uk/

Ass hatchet... that's the phrase I was trying to think of as I wrote that post.

So many bikes I see posted have saddles that look like they would kill me. Straight up the crotch stopping blood flow. I have no idea how you guys do it, I think my pecker would've dropped off by now.

I used to ride an Arione, but even that was cutting off blood and leaving areas numb. Now I have a Fizik Aliante and love it, I can't imagine not having it, and every bike I own has it.

'cept mine is white.

Are you guys really comfortable on the saddles you ride? Or did you opt for the ones that look awesome (and I'll concede they really do) foregoing some comfort?

I love that paint job. Ah well.

What is it with the killer saddles? Time for another thread methinks.

You don't fall over with the Atac system either... my Sidi's look like this:

That's how they look with cleats on too. They're nicely recessed.

The cleats are about £15 to replace, and they're made of brass which means the cleats wear down and not the pedals. I like it that way, the pedals are expensive.

I think the gist of all of this is simple, go get some MTB pedals and shoes :)

Oh. My. God.

heh, I thought I was going slow to make sure we didn't split up. Flying along was what I did when we parted.

It's just the gear I suppose. And now I've got used to it and purr along I'm thinking of changing it to 47x15 for a little more oompf. I'll regret that on the days I feel like shit though.

Three of us. TheBrick, rkn and myself.

We shot down to Greenwich, had a drink, shot back into town. We cut it short enough for rkn to get to his gig. And then went our own direction.

Quite a nice evening really, should do it more often.

That ride was good fun.

I do not recommend going anywhere near Hyde Park at dusk this week. Bloody mayflys everywhere. Ate many of the bastards.