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It's a demand and supply thing. Demand for track frames is increasing. As track/fixed culture becomes more popular (partly as the result of forums like this!).

Some of my friends are making a decent living by selling nice stuff to willing customers. And I too see nothing wrong with that.

15 years ago it was pretty impossible to find any track spares in London LBSs. I am talking about c/ring bolts, chainsets, hubs, h/bars etc. Now it's possible to buy pretty much any kind of spare almost anywhere. So that's the upside.

The downside is that some unscrupulous sellers are passing off lo-pro pursuit frames that are wholly unsuitable for road riding (like our friend's saranoninoo or whatever) .

Early season training race. Before h*lm*ts were made compulsory.

Hops

twat.

OOoooh.

I meant cost to Howies (R).

Any yellow bike is a crime for which the punishment should be being forced to ride around London in very sheer lycra shorts.

It's like tennis socks: it's just wrong.

I like their stuff, but I don't like the 'made in a nice factory' label (that's what it says) on my t-shirt.

Just be honest: 'made in a factory where the price-point + quality of manufacture was right.'

The first bicycle race ever was won a fixed wheel. By an Englishman.

hippy Remind me again next year :)
I want to get a 300k/200mi out this "summer". By next year I may have even got over my hatred of mudguards and done some audaxes! ;)

You don't need mudguards to do Audaxes! I did several in 2005 (inc Porkers 400) without.

It's only the BRM registered events, and the deep winter ones which use nice caffs for controls (proprietors can sometimes get upset when people wearing muddy shorts sit in their chairs...) which require mudguards.

I had a quick look at a Project Tortoise bag at the weekend. They look nice. Very nice. I hope to give one a proper going over soon. To be honest I would be amazed if the maker is seriously trying to make them for the same money as Chrome. The bag I saw was a lot nicer than a Chrome, lot more functional and had that 'hangs right' look that can be seen with Pac, Zo and Cocotte.

Looks like a proper 4th generation design.

Timbuk2? Made in China.

Yeah, it's easy to blow you knee caps off on longer rides, esp. if you carrying unaccustomed amounts of weight. Little gears recommended.

A30 to Basingstoke, then Test Valley A345 Salisbury errr

Velcro wears out. End of. There isn't a solution to the problem other than getting another strip sewn on. Erik did that on my Zo when he replaced the strap.

I have to add one proviso - after 1 years hard messengering, the stitching on Selim's O/S Deluxe started to undo.

He actually got the thing second hand.

I do rate Pac, but I also rate Baj-Jack. Just as good, if not better.

I should also add that I am mates with both Pat and Pe (old-skool messenger thing).

The best part is that he took the drugs, got his team to ride for him (remember Millar blowing the legs off the leading group on the first climb?) and still blew up like a box of fireworks in a furnace.

Muppet.

Bleedin' whingeing bloody roadies...

http://www.audax-club-parisien.com/

and click brm button

and then moan cos it's all in French and you can't understand why anyone would still be posting pages in french in this day and age and really it's too much trouble....

If the frame is straight (unlikely given the fold in the seat-stay) then you could prob ride it like that.

I probably wouldn't though.

The seat tube ding looks borderline cosmetic. In general, a dent that isn't more than a quarter of the diameter of the tube is ok, as long there isn't rippling and the tube itself is still straight.

Oh whatever.

I can see I am wasting my time here.

Fixedwheelnut?

They're in Cardigan.

Only on the BRM regiestered, and some other really muddy ones. And you can use those sks blades.

Porkers is in Dorset. There are def 300s near London. And 200s near London.

Porkers 400. Brutal. Steep lanes with grass down the middle.

Roxy?

Not me! I am not responsible for the LBMA web-site (anymore).

You could always try googling for the phone numbers. Or the yellow pages.

the only thing I can drop at the mo is my keys.

Audax is cool. Porkers 400 is one of the most traumatic experiences I have ever had on a bicycle.