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Thought so... cheers!

How much are surly steamrollers? I bumped into someone who'd made himself one for about £800. Dunno if that was straight from surly or just the frame plus his own wheels etc. I'm looking at more like £3-400 for my first fixie.

Let us know the prices Joe_b, i'm looking for a fixie too.

Will probably be just out of interest though, these look out of my price range.

I like the time machine on the top, doubt the bike can reach 88 mph though

doh!!!

I think loads of people (like me) attached their number facing sideways underneath the top tube, instead of facing forwards...I guess that means we're never gonna see our pics.....were we told to have the number facing forward?

there's a street in Loughborough junction called "Wanless Road" which always makes me chuckle to myself when I see it.

I'm with Jakob, you gotta make the change sometime, there's no reason why you shouldn't go fixed straight away......and he's also right to start with a low gear and work up.....but hang on, the question was only where to buy stuff!

Go on, buy it. If nobody bought stuff they didn't really need our economy would collapse. I think it's silly when people say "don't buy it unless you're really going to use it". Who cares? Plus you're saving the planet doubly: not only are you riding a bike, which is greener than green, it's got lots of carbon locked up in it, which means there's one less bikes-worth of carbon in the air. For this reason, everybody should buy a carbon fibre road bike. and a pagani zonda. lots of carbon in one of them

for a non-ferrous bike that cinelli is the shizzle

Yeah tommo my bike is a raleigh 10 speed conversion... looking at frames for a fixie at the moment... there's an armstrong frame sitting at £10 at the moment on ebay, looks pretty cool (please don't somebody buy it now i've said that). From my limited research armstrong frames tend to be quite old... the newest example i've found was from the 60s. think the company was taken over by raleigh. The frame is probably a piece of crap but as i'm sure you'll understand i don't really trust myself with expensive things...... hehe

the bareknuckle is probably made in the same factory but it's different geometry a different tubeset, cheaper com12, the pista is sat14 (don't forget the potenza with zero replica tubing) and the condor's AFIK are painted over here by colourtech in crayford. condors are semi-compact the EAI traditional.
they are quite different bikes.

If you can afford it would buy a lemond filmore to ride now and then order something custom that you really want and sell the filmore later, if you can't do that buy anything that's in stock and your size!

MA3K ATAC is the only consideration for retention(spring at front - no nasty unclips) and ease of use(big rails) + zero maintenance.

One you've ridden with them you wont swap back.

Amen brudder

you wanna make a fish out of a golf club? sounds like my kind of religion.

he looked drug free.....actually that was probably his secret....completely untainted!

trampsparadise, now I know who you are!!! I should've just looked at your profile.

what I've already got probably....a Veto!

if we turn left once inside the park the cycle route takes us round to the exit near lancaster gate.
only thing is will the cycle route be closed off? evidently there is some cycle race thing going on later in the day

will sort a time when i know what time we need to be at camden?

Rollapluza will be at:

Spin to win (the clue's in the name)
LCC prologue event
Pub in the Park evening post ride picnic to loosen your legs..

So plenty of chances here for all of you guys to try and beat 16yr old Sayem!

Plastic?

as in: fibreglass is also known as GRP (glass reinforced plastic)

as Carbon frames are made in a similar way does that mean they are "CRP" ???!!!!

was that "cristalline" water from LIDL at 10p or VOSS designer water at £4.50?

The more you spend on water the better your performance will be.....same goes for bikes too.

get a custom ti road/track bike it will last longer than a plastic bike

i could find a home for that space/seat if it's going spare.

me and RPM are riding up from tootin, >clapham > chelsea bridge> albert gate into hyde park> A5 edgeware rd/maida vale >belsize rd> swiss cottage >eton ave
don't know what time we are leaving yet but if any of the SW lot want to meet en route then am happy to meet up.

may vary the route to be more direct at the end but i wanted to see if i can trip the 'slow down 30mph' sign on maida vale :-)

'wish i had the cash for that' ribbing

If I did and I was only "allowed" to buy bikes....I'd buy two....a custom, hand-built steel track frame from someone like Chas Roberts or Brian Rourke and an off the peg Scandium complete road bike with Ultegra....no doubt I'd still have quite bit of change from what the Colnago "frame only" would cost.....oh dear hope I don't turn this thread into a "what you buy with £X" discussion!!!

ok.....

I'd like to know the answer to that question too actually, maybe ask the design team as well, no offence but they could design you a bike that looks like what you want but is made for your personal needs?

I went to that Independent Fabrications night the other day and although I would never spend that kind of money the idea that the bike is designed and built to your riding requirements is attractive.....you could say: "I want a shit-hot looking bike that looks like a track bike but has ride qualities for the road"?

If you do come down to HH with the bike that has created so much discussion, then you'd better have found yourself a sponsor, shaved your legs, wear skin tight lycra and have completed about 100 hours of interval sessions!!!......now I am kidding....the more the merrier on the track....and there is a huge variety of frames down there.