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Hate: charing x road (trafalgar sq end especially) - i'd say worse than oxford st for people walking into the middle of the road infront of you. AND i have to ride it every day to get to college.

Also hate: covent garden. Annoying roads and fscking cobbles!

Like: All the big wide flat smooth roads in west london. Escaping picadilly/oxford circus onto the nice roads towards regent's park. surviving the junction right next to my house.

don't feed the trolls

Its on Dave Gorman :)

@mouse: Or the guy shafted by BLB?

njs?
Might stay cheap?

come on the boys from oxford.
I'll be thinking of you as i sit in my room cursing my dislocated and fucking painful thumb

i bet hes real upset that the bike hasn't a red saddle, seat tube, cranks, drive chain, pedals, etc.

its to do with the picture you have...

i love my 50:17

i was going to do a similar thing with my gf's bike.
but we broke up.
bugger.

condor sell them singly for £7.50

so are you all going to the bec hillclimb later the same day that is on the way back?
seems rude not to.

dialled bikes love/hate. has one of those phil EBB's so tensioning/wheel removal is piss easy.

i have an EBB it's a piece of piss to use and gives no bother at all. but make sure you get a phil wood one as the other bushnell units are a pain in the arse with all the moving parts inside that need covering in copperslip to stop creaking.
if you are that picky about position changes all you would need to do is move the saddle and seatpost back/forward and up/down to compensate when tensioning the chain, but once set you are hardly likely to move it far and probably the same distance as a change in the thickness of your shorts or the sole of a shoe.
i have seen some of the phill ebb's installed with the bolts pointing upwards which is easier to get to. independent fabrication use phil EBB's maybe ask them if they recommend them for fixed use.

the EBB shell on my mtb was made by independent fabrication as this was the only place at the time to get a shell made for a phil EBB. the frame is a protoype that a mate was having built (in taiwan) for me to test. it's the only I.F. bike part i'm likely to own :-)

i like the idea of a roll of stickers, but have no way of getting the money to you.

i have to say that the reason it probably came to the fore because of bike snob is because people read that rather than trwaling fgg or velospace.
I was alerted here, butm stupidity needs to be pointed out.

i ride mtb's roberto, come on you can show me yours :-)

I got one of these:

it's not that nice to look at though.

never cycled through on the way down i like the corners too much! (as long as the taxis coming from the barbican bother to stop)

get your lbs to order the bushings and bearings.
use a peg spanner or circlip pliers to take the endcap off, screwdriver to get the bushings out (yellow plasticky things) and fit the new parts.

im stoked your a tool.
douchebag. we're just amazed that you think its sensible to ride without any sort of connection to your pedals- which as you ride no brakes are your only stopping force. therefore you have minimal to 0 clue.
and for your first fix?
you must be the cockyest shit around london.

Wow that's pretty heavy. Mine weighs 102.

Yeah I refuse to either love or hate it. I find it mildly pleasing!!

Eh thought i posted.

Best:

Handlebars and brake from hovis - comfy and free! Thanks a bunch
Wheels from lpg - light and cheap! Thanks a bunch
Bianchi pista - shiny and reliable! Thanks a bunch

Worst:

Loose lockrings
Shimano spds unclipping during skids resulting in a semi amusing uppy downy scary near crashing experience. This is down more to poor technique though.
Specialised saddle. Uncomfortable (but not sterilisingly so), but biggest issue is the rip which magically appeared almost straight away.
Rain.

3/32 isnt a problem, remember that even if you get a 1/8 cog, a 1/8 chain runs fine on 3/32 (that's what i'm running right now - 1/8 chain, 1/8 rear cog & 3/32 chainring). You can get 130 mm spaced rear hubs, check hubjub.co.uk, or sjs cycles. Just google it. Its harder for me finding 110 mm!

Your biggest problem will be the vertical dropouts. remember that on a fixie chain tension is important, as is the chainline. I'd reccomend playing around with as many different cog combinations as you can until you find your magic gear. 39/15 gives you a fairly easy gear, so beware you'll be spinning a fair bit (but on the other hand it makes learning skidding etc easier).

Good luck!