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that's odd the deda com 12 sticker suggests it's steel, com 12 is their cheapest steel tubeset which was used on the barknuckle and is only available to oem manufacturers and not listed on the deda website. the tube profiles look like a pista which is sat14 tubeset (next one up is eom 16) but i thought com 12 was round profile only?
i would call condor and ask them what exactly it's made of.
or put a magnet up against it :-)

the smaller tektro/cane creeks fit OS bars but right where your hands sit so not much use.
the OS ones are readily available, i think allterraincycles do them cheap.
salsa also do a drilled alloy crosstop

hope this helps [i][/i]*[size=24]GARY*

what?!

just remember folks Maxim is ephemeral printed matter a fixied is for life*

*until you break it or you buy a new one

provenrad I would have let them have a look at my ring.. possibly get some lube to stop the squeaking?

gynaecologist?

blb would've charged that for the crank bolts. each :P

it's messengers only (i guess you knew that already) i'm sure that most of the coming years roller events are not but you have to ask winspar

will it be like every other valentines?
cheap shit single roses wrapped in plastic.
restaurants charging double for miserable couples to sit there being miserable.
wimmen only wanting to go to expensive restaurants so they can brag to their friends about where they were taken.

i like the idea of riding my bike on valentines day but if it's a glass of cheap fizz and a plastic rose for £25 i'm not interested.

d0cA was right next to blb when i saw him, and it was open. So he could've bought a chainring and bolts. Well in theory, they may have just looked blankly at him and tried to sell him a deep v or an aerospoke :)

"The fact is mainstream media are going to be picking up on a fixed gear culture that is, like it or not, seeping more and more into the mainstream itself.
I'd just read an article in one of the Daily Mail magazines for fucks sake - the DAILY MAIL. The reason I wanted to look at an alleycat and perhaps speak to messengers involved is that at least these people are verifiably at the forefront and centre of something and can give the reader an understanding of something that is beginning to resonate more widely."

i think you are confusing 'fixie' culture and messenger culture, they are not the same, they overlap but messengers didn't invent fixed bikes and in the u.k have never been a significant majority of cyclists who ride fixed (that belongs to trackies and TT'ers) there is a pic of Bill and 4 others at an early 90's european messenger championship the only entrants riding fixed, my mum rode fixed in the early 60's the bike was 40 years old and she managed to get down church hill without an areospoke or deep-v's.(she's my cycling hero)
i think what i'm trying to say is alleycats are one story riding fixed is another and you're not having much luck with the former :-)

IMHO a story about roller racing would be better, it's inclusive not exclusive and your readership can pay their £5 and enter

I saw d0cA's chainring... me personally I would've bought a new one and got the wizard that is dogsballs to fit it for me. :)

Today I saw Dale, Stompy, someone with a langster and drops who i tried to race but gave up and answered my phone instead, and pj briefly.

More importantly though i DIDN'T see estelle, SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY :(

Dale do you have a road frame knocking around i could buy off you? I have a hankering for a beater. :)

"communting" sounds like fun....

I went to an all-female roller derby last night (http://www.londonrollergirls.com)

It was great....one girl broke her leg and as Caspar put it, it looked like she had an extra knee.....

but aside from that was good entertainment...and clearly popular there were touts outside....

As far as Rollapaluza is concerned, we are more than happy with all spectators, amateur and student photographers, taking as many photos / movies as they wish.....in fact we welcome it and in return most people we approach if we like their photos are more than happy for us to use them.....

Professional journalists and photographers working for major publications that people pay for is different and luckily most professionals are exactly that and contact us in advance.

I think the least you should do (if you haven't already) is to ask the organiser if he minds you turning up at his event......I believe that this is perfectly normal for most sporting events is it not???

As an organiser of Rollapaluza, I would say that we consider it usual for journalists to contact us in advance of events and all pro photographers to arrange permission in advance or at least make themselves known on the night....in fact we will have journalists from a well-respected cycling publication at Rollapalpuza on the 25th, they have been in contact with us for over three months and as such we are more than happy to grant them interview time and photoshoot before the main event.

As Joel points out Movingtarget will be the forum to track down the organisers.

Some people on this forum are getting a little tired of people selling things, doing coroporate "research" and other commercial stuff, especially if it is their first post.

pale blue condor, met nihmbus and RPM on dark blue condor and black JF Wilson

i thought the wrongster looked hideous

dogsballs mrsmith, mine will have a cream enamel on the head and seat tube, you can take a looksy when i get it back next week hopefully :)

look forward to it, what's the other colour?

i saw him too, i think it may be ss not fixed? had a brake on the back.

ChrisNW There is a very small difference in headset diameters between ISO and JIS headsets. According to Sheldon, JIS is 30mm and ISO 30.2mm. Crown race size also differs by 0.2 mm too and works the opposite way (ISO dia smaller than JIS).

Therefore it stands that if you have a loose JIS headset, you could get it reamed to fit ISO instead, but you'd also have to remove some material from the crown too, unless...

...has anyone ever mixed JIS crown race with ISO cups?

Ha! I've got the same problem with my Mercian road/path frame... Mog at Brixton Cycles said I should try getting hold of an old Campy headset cuz a lot of them measured 30.2mm at the crown race and that 'might' solve the ovalised headtube, didn't realise it was just a JIS/ISO thing... Everyone I spoke to about geting hold of one didn't know what I was on about?! Nice one Chris! :)
Who makes a traditional (i.e. old skool) ISO 1" threaded headset then? Anyone got a cheap one for sale?

I see your seventy five pounds and sixty seven pence and raise you forty seven pence and three shillings.

Lydia, I dont think you've ever ridden a bike...

Also we will pass the bike and photo on to the emergency services with a note saying "you will see this person soon, probably within 20 feet of (parts of) this bike, with a large red smear in between."

:)

To echo seb, I want a picture of both you and your bike so that I know to stay as far away from you as possible, until you fit a brake. Please?

dogsballs, he's your man.