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you need balls to brake well but you can't teach and old dog new tricks

cool thanks for that it gives me some idea of what colours what.
i am thinking of a deep burgundy/liver/purple colour too but anything that dark just looks black on the mercian colour chart
if i lived near Derby i would photograph the samples myself :-)

"It is very easy to get it wrong...;)" i think you got it right

furious tiles I know Gary told me.

i'll say anything to stop you following me

somebody on singletrack is after a dekerf if you haven't sold

hitting a deer will hurt, they are heavy and can do serious damage. my old man had to 'dispatch' one at the roadside before Christmas for the police, a girl had hit it with her car she was o.k but the car was written off. people die in Scandinavia when they hit reindeer (caribou), moose are even bigger hit one of those and it's bad news.

i'll have to ask my mum

86 gear inches is high
like god, jesus and all his disciples i ride 46x17 which depending on the charts you look at is 72-73 gear inches which i find perfect for london and the surrounding countryside

english belgian french italian, all good but those japanese frames do nothing for me especially as couriers seem to break them

it's nellys crashed damaged frame from when he was a courier, it's 531 but i expect the top/down tubes i get replaced wil be 631.
all a long way off as i am about to sign a lease on a studio so no frivolous spending for a while.

Alf Webb! Alf Webb!

Jos [quote]asm "the world's most advanced bicycles"

Judging by the quality of his site design, it's not too hard to imagine dafoney's idea of an advanced bicycle is one with machine-guns and rocket-launchers. And maybe some fins and a huge booster rocket on the back.

Reminds me of this[/quote]

I like the cruiser with the built in baseball bat holder. No car, van, bus, pedestrian, cyclist or animal would dare fuck with you if they saw you riding that. All it needs is a sign saying "no really, I will use it."

Well cool schwinn pre-war fixed wheel bike with wooden rims! I love it and really, really want it.

well he has one already, but i guess he might like them quite a lot...

interesting aside: the picture of that saddle was on my computer and my (female) flatmate walked in and asked: "Why has someone made a slice of bacon look like a pair of scissors?"

I was fairly mystified.

i think someone who works at cavendish posts on this forum. It's a good shop and i'm sure they'll be happy to help.

ok... I think you're going to find it exceptionally difficult to get a fixed wheel bike for that price. My advice - hunt down an old racer on ebay then take the derrailleur/gear mech off. instant single-speed. I found an old raleigh 10-speed on ebay for £70 for this purpose. That way, you could probably also afford to get a decent back wheel with a track hub if you then decide you want to go fixed.

i don't know what colour(s) it will be but chocolate brown, claret/vermillion, pistachio,purple, cream and mid-blue are all possibles. a combination of a 3 with head tube, barbers pole and lug lining.
then i need to decide on the decal colours :-)

er.

Price? Steel or alu?

There are plenty of ss or fixed road racers in london, probably also in islington. Specificity is required.

Cuntish woman and a bearded japs-eye in a car and a van respectively tail-gating me and/or honking. While in a bus lane, which they shoudn't have been in, before attempting to overtake me (and nearly causing a crash with the other law-abiding cars). Thank you very much for making me exert myself more than i normally would have in an effort to catch up and force-feed you your own car/van.

Oh and "fuck off" to the hybrid riding pillock who undertook me while i was pulling in and slowing down at a zebra crossing. I wish you'd crashed into me, and that your neon jacket had caught fire and melted itself to your face.

"the world's most advanced bicycles"

Judging by the quality of his site design, it's not too hard to imagine dafoney's idea of an advanced bicycle is one with machine-guns and rocket-launchers. And maybe some fins and a huge booster rocket on the back.

the cane creek levers are the same as the tektro levers which are the same as the condor levers, the weigh the same only the cane creek are the more expensive.
(the rubbers look different though and tektro don't do brown)

when is ma3k's birthday? :)

i see colourtech are involved (crayford based painters/powdercoaters who do condor's paint)

maybe we'll be able to help with the condor query? spelling it c****r might help :)

James Erasmus Thompson, can you tell me where you got the gum coloured levers from?

to be fair, what is the point powder-coating spokes?? just get a damn can of paint and spray them!