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nimhbus it's nice, but is the shiny black a little ..S&M?

Scott has already said that he made it out of truck tarp because the condura hasn't arrived!

Oh how I love my ultra compact geometry ... :P

As the others have said, lean rather than turn. Hope you're feeling well soon and get back on your bike as soon as.

I'm guessing the hub has the 'normal' track chainline? i.e. 41mm.

If you need it to be 3-4mm out, you could try a goldtec hub which has a chainline of about 45mm, then fine tune it with a slightly thicker or thinner cog.

Or you could just try thinner or thicker cogs (some cogs are thicker on one side than the other) on your current hub to try and shift the chainline slightly.

As long as the chainline is straight within one or two mm it'll be fine. Chains won't throw as easy as people seem to think.

I don't think there's a "problem", just the black ones are really hard to come buy.

I managed to get a rear black hub from Brixton Cycles, but I've been waiting for my front one from BETD (Goldtec's distributor) for about 3-4 weeks, and probably the same amount of time until I actually get the damn thing.

Simon - Make them do it properly this time!

Redeye - Spacers behind the sprocket sounds a bit dodgy, are there even enough threads on the hub to be able to space it out that much?

Might just have to get a new hub :-/

Hmm the improvements sound good :)

I agree with mr_tom about the lock being on the outside. Mine is rather greasy because I lock through my rear wheel and it touches the chain.

I'm not a fan of hip packs/bum bags/fanny packs/whatever myself. I just use a saddle bag for mini tools etc. and carry my u lock in my back pocket or on my belt.

Either really.

If you've got a pipe cutter (one of those cyclindrical shaped things with the whole in the middle that you twist around the pipe, yeah?) that would probably be the easiest because you wouldn't have to clamp the bars in a vice or something.

But the pipe cutter will probably only work with flat bars. And they are usually only designed for copper pipes, not aluminium handlebars :P

So on the basis of that, I'd probably say hacksaw, actually. Just clamp it in something or get a friend with large arms.

You don't need a designer... :P

Just some bits of A6 paper, black marker pen, hand. Done.

haaaa :)

Yeah, I might start training. Hmm.... ponders

Scrapper www.velouk.com
http://www.sidicafe.com
Both really good if you want sidi. Will be stocking alot of track/fixed gear stuff soon
Next day delivery and great people (I work there so of course I'm bias)
Enter - londonfgss at the check out for %5 discount

I thought velocity boy wasn't allowing ads...?

But for discount? :)

Yeah, didn't think of that :P

I'd like to do the marathon next year. MIght do a bit of research online about training etc :)

Although I would prefer something more bike-orientated.

Hmm. Audax...

You'd probably kick my arse in a race, hahaha :)

I rarely do long rides (I wanted to do more in the "summer" but the weather has been rubbish) and only ride 4 miles to work :)

That's good about the new server.

It'd be a pain in the arse if a lot of the data was lost! All our insightful and meaningful musings as to the meaning of life would be lost forever...

I'd say open pros.

You can get them in a dark grey, too. Look quite nice. Both the section's surface and the braking surface is grey. (CD coating, it's not ceramic).

Sccccchwwwwweet.

I was going to buy one when I was bike frame buying a few months back.

Make sure to post a pic when it's done!

hippy I lost to a roadie today. The shame. I totally blame it on my lack of inches.. my gear inches, gutter-minds!
42/16 or 42/18 or whatever the hell the freewheel is means I kinda loose going downhill. Then I got every light into the city.

tut tut tut...

I've never lost to a roadie. Then again, there aren't that many people on bikes in Basingstoke anyway!

joe_b yeah running hurts, properly knackers you and isnt
easier downhill, makes you look like a tool and
if you do it regularly for ages you get gradually shorter.

Yeah it is knackering. I went for a run the other day for about 30 mins and I felt like I was going to die! I can ride for ages, fast.

Perhaps I've got rubbish technique or something.

hahahaaa :)

I only own jeans. And a pair of trousers for formal stuff, just one mind.

hippy [quote]Fixedwheelnut See the mileage most of you do, you would have no trouble riding an Audax.

It's not the mileage that's the problem, it's the going slow enough from the start to actually make the distance, getting to the start line and navigating (god no! noooo!).[/quote]

That's my problem. I pretty much sprint my whole way to work :)

Arrrrrgh! What is it with people doing more and more ridiculous things with their handlebars?!

First the stupidly narrow flat bars which give you zero leverage but let you get through really really narrow gaps, even ones narrower than your shoulders and pedals!

Now drops, but with the flat bit of the drop gone...

What next? Just aero bars for street riding?

I saw that program too that Aidan mentioned... He kept injected directly into his arm and eventually it had this huge tumour or something in it, so he just drained it with a syringe and loads of blood just kept coming out. Channel 5 marketed that as his arm "exploding", haha. Rubbish documentary though!

RPM [quote]eeehhhh I don't get the narrow handlebars that seem to be so popular.

:-/

well, if you think about how close your hands can go when you ride on the flats of a dropbar, there's no need to have them much wider than that. it offers only one hand position though.

personally , I like getting down on the drops, they are so nice..nitto b123aa, better than sex with a midget.[/quote]

I disagree... The tops of a dropbar aren't designed for proper, "I'm pedalling quite hard to go fast" riding, they're just an upright position for tootling along.

natureboy [quote]RPM [quote]eeehhhh I don't get the narrow handlebars that seem to be so popular.

:-/

well, if you think about how close your hands can go when you ride on the flats of a dropbar, there's no need to have them much wider than that. it offers only one hand position though.
[/quote]
yeah but personally I can't get any oomph into the pedals with my hands so close together, or even
have good control at low speed. Is it just a matter of getting used to it or is to do with the
geometry at the front of the bike?[/quote]

Yeah I'm like that. I find my current flat bars too wide though, and that I have to move my hands in a couple of cm to get the perfect leverage. Afterall the idea of the bars is to lock your body in a position so your legs can push into the pedals rather than push your body up and down.

I bet people with the tiny bars are crap at climbing.

:-|

I think I'm going to cry in a corner now.

Wow, they're really cheap... I might have to buy some of those :) Even though they are camo, and my bag is camo so I'll look like a total army nerd.

hippy Soma seems to work, even with the busted headset. Gonna ride it til it dies like every other frickin headset.

There's not much to go wrong really. Just handlebars will grrrrrrrrinnnddd if the bearings get damaged.

edmundane you only turn left and that's when HGVs move in to cut you up and kill...

Hire a HGV to drive round the track to practice avoiding them!

Nice morning today... I've got a feeling it should be better than yesterday :) Otherwise I will go crazy at the driver.