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Nice, I like the orange. I wish Paul Comp was based in the UK...

wow, my friend in my halls has got one of them! I'm pretty sure it's exactly the same one. He doesn't ride it because it's far too small... tempted to borrow it off of him :)

I used to... but got fed up with trying to get my iTunes history to scrobble onto various accounts. Plus the Last.fm client was terrrrrrible when I went from PowerPC to Intel!

Is iScrobble much better?

Just thought that you should try some refuse centres. No idea where you'd find them in London the one in my home town is on the outskirts of some industrial estate. Police auctions too - might be lucky.

Welcome to the forum!

hey eeehhhh,
this sounds eerily similar to a problem i've been having for ages. i hear and feel a sort of clicking at certain points but had no idea what it was for a long time.

i thought i'd finally figured it out—my chainring is extremely close to the chainstays (wide enough to slip a spoke card in, maybe a bit wider), which wasn't a problem for the first six months or so, but when i looked closely at the chainring spinning slowly it seemed to be rubbing the stay slightly at certain points, hence the clicking. i checked again this morning, though, and could feel it clicking, but it was hard to tell if the chainring was actually touching the frame at those moments. after reading your post, i'll try spinning the cranks with the chain off in the morning and see if that's what it is. it's probably unlikely, but is there any chance this is what's happening with your chainring (ie, it's rubbing the stays at certain points)?

That's what I thought it was at first, but it's not. I rolled blue tack between the frame and chainring wherever it might contact, and it doesn't knock it off.

what also struck me about your post is that there seems to be lateral movement in my chain, too, except it doesn't move side to side, just looks as though the chain is bent to the side and then bends back again. [sorry if this isn't clear, mechanics aren't my forte and i'm finding it hard to describe, let alone fix] i always thought it was the chain just being full of grit, or slightly bent, but it's a fairly new chain, so i don't know what's wrong.

I think I see what you're saying, sounds similar to my case!

anyway, let us know if you figure out what is wrong and manage to fix it, i'm curious to know if we have a similar problem, and/or whether this is a common issue for fixed/singlespeeds. cheers.

I'll be heading back down to Condor on Monday/Tuesday, so I'll post back after then.

I reckon it's either that the lengths of the arms on your crank spider aren't all the same - so a manufacturing fault which shouldn't be likely on those miches - or it's your peddling* motion that is pushing the chain off line, maybe try tightening your cleats/straps?

*that's as in turning the pedals not hawking goods ;-)

I'm beginning to think it's the length of the spider arms as well. Definitely not the pedaling motion because it happens when I'm turning the cranks by hand, and with no pedals on the cranks.

Same for me.

I think it's safe to say that we'd all rather share the roads with motorcyclists than cars because the majority of them are good riders. Do motorcyclists even want to ride in bus lanes? :-/ I'll ask my mate who rides.

You most certainly have been had.

I suggest you read http://www.londonfgss.com/thread5205.html

is it njs?

edscroble: I just typed a full stop, couldn't think of anything that was worth saying!

adoubletap: no idea, just do it again to be sure? they probably check their list for the same email anyway.

^ Yeah, an "invitation to treat" or something like that.

Loads on council web sites, e.g.http://www.telford.gov.uk/Advice+benefits/Trading+standards/Trading+Standards+FAQs.htm

Q. I have seen a CD player on sale in a shop that I want to buy. However, when I tried to buy it the manager told me it was the wrong price. Can I make the shop sell it to me at the displayed price?
A. No. You cannot make a trader sell anything to you if they don't want to. In civil law when goods are displayed in a shop, a catalogue or an advertisement, this is called an 'invitation to treat'. This means that it is an invitation for the consumer to make an offer to the shop to buy the goods, and it is up to the shop whether or not they want to accept that offer.
However the shop might have committed a criminal offence. This is because the Consumer Protection Act 1987 says that traders must not display misleading prices. You could report this to Trading Standards who may investigate the matter, however if this was a 'one-off' genuine mistake they would be unlikely to take any action.

I have never ever evereverever timed any ride.

Just fucking enjoy them.

I only know my H'smith - South Ken route because I need to be there on time.

Otherwise I give myself ridiculous amounts of time to get everywhere for exactly that reason :)

^ I'm pretty sure that's not true.

When I worked at Comet, if something was mislabeled at the wrong price, we don't have to sell it and instead must withdraw it from sale for 24 hours.

Customers used to move the paper tickets between TV models to try and get HD TVs for the price of standard definition TVs. They'd pipe up big time. Was threatened with solicitors a few times!

The manager always said: If you had a house worth £200,000 and advertised in a newspaper, but the newspaper printed it wrong as £20,000, do you have to sell for £20,000? No, of course not.

If it was a small difference, the store might do it as a goodwill gesture, but they have no legal obligation to sell anything.

I think I've got one - used it for my Miche.

You're welcome to borrow it if you want. I'm not back in London until Monday, though, so might be quicker from someone else.

The only time I know is my commute from Charing Cross Hospital to Imperial College in South Kensington.

Fastest time is 14 minutes, about 10am on a Saturday morning I think. Didn't have anything in my bag except trainers and shorts for the gym, so was travelling light.

Normal time with change of clothes, paperwork, macbook etc in mornings and evenings I'd say is ~22 minutes, via High St Kensington.

^ "It's a bicycle"

They must be kidding! What is the point? :S

http://www.lcc.org.uk//index.asp?PageID=1145

I want to get the prick who knocked me in the mouth at Fabric last night (well, this morning), smash his front tooth in half by forcing him to cycle head on to a lamp post (I was 11), then make a dentist cap it, then shave it down and have a veneer (like last June), then smack him in the mouth so he knows it feels like and send him the fucking bill that I'm going to get tomorrow from the dentist, and the cost of the train ticket to and from Basingstoke plus tube journey. :@

They're not bad cranks, by any means. Excellent value for money. Just that on a bike worth that much, I'd certainly expect higher end cranks than those, e.g. sugino 75.

9 grand and it's got a messenger chainset? :S

Do whatever you want to it. I just think if you do convert it to fixed wheel, don't remove any original features or brazeons, etc.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

seeing them this evening :D

edit: No idea how to get the you tube video in...
edit again: seems to have done it now!

Well, that was a waste of time and £3. Took the cranks in and they said they need to see them on the bike. They bloody told me to just bring the cranks!

^ I don't think that would make a difference because water would seep through anyway.

I've got open pros and had cxp22s, both eyeleted, and never had that problem.

I wouldn't worry, should just dry out as you ride.