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yes - dimbleby reports 'some tension' between cyclists and motorists!

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I'm glad someone dug out that typeface - I was thinking HF[spark]LF instead of ACDC

though it's not very london or birthday.

Liking Pennywise the Hipster.

from the people that brought you this:

it's flashier space-age cousin from the big city:

though I suppose it has a slightly better chance of working in carbon.

I must say, it doesn't look much like a Pentax K1000 to me (check out the image url).

or mplayer.

i agree with what several people have said - the sprocket motif has been done to death. How about doing something with the track ends or something like that? Or maybe a rear view of a back wheel with a flip-flop hub and two sprockets? I dunno. I'll have a scribble later.

also, I don't really get the car door thing on build's design, but I do like the sort of highway code graphic style. there might be more inspiration to be found in the highway code itself.

anyway, count me in for a small!

yes, like a perfectly formed cubic zirconium.

have had 98% (*) of a bike sitting in my front hall for a month now and it's driving me nuts.
Looking for:

• a short A-head stem with an oversize clamp and
  
• a crosstop brake lever, also with a 31.8mm clamp.
  
  

going spare:

• an 80mm ambrosio venturi road stem (26mm), quite nice and light (122g)
  
• a Campag 49t 1/8 chainring practically unused
  
• (somewhere in piles of stuff) 17t 3/32 cog, nothing fancy like EAI or phil but perfectly ok.
  
  

(*) by weight

someone needs to tell the owner to dig up.

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you picked my favourite shot from dawn of the dead. That guy is the spitting image of my mate Ian. It cracks me up every time I see it!

I think we're stuck with 'fixies' - better get used to it! At least he went on to call them 'fixed wheel' rather than
'fixed gear' bikes. If I could change two words it would be change 'have to' to 'can' as in 'use your legs to brake'.

There's a guy had some Araya CT-19Ns on ebay just recently (I bought them!) and I think he might have one or two pairs left. They come in at about 440g each. (Sorry - too lazy to post a pic - search and ye shall find.)

I knew we were missing something off the hipster bingo - you gotta carry an oldskool-radio about under your arm..

ThisIsRob (RJM) forget track bikes the real e-bay money is in this

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rustler-Ranch-CA-3-Million-Year-Old-Mastodon-Skeleton_W0QQitemZ320225820835QQihZ011QQcategoryZ3216QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

pick-up only. lol.

ha! quick release seat tube..

andrewleitch86 They never sweep the gutter ones so they're always filled with glass. I'd use more of them if they weren't such a tyre bursting hazard.

yeah, that's a real killer. I've come to the conclusion that cars actually have a use and it's to crush any glass that gets on to the road.

anyway, it (glass, too narrow, bad surfacing, parked cars, people stepping out etc) all boils down the fact that you can't travel safely at the speed you would like to - on the road, I and I suspect most people here get around at 20mph+, which just feels insanely reckless in most of the cycles lanes we have.

Momentum [quote]dogsballs we've got heaps at work. how much you want?

No idea! Prob a cups worth or something? I doubt I'd need more than 200ml of mixed shellac to do a few coats on my bars and know it needs to be mixed with alcohol.
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This might be a stupid question but what kind of alcohol? I've got some 70% isopropyl here - would that do?

Anyway, be sure to post before and after pictures when it's done!

might be interested in those drops tomasito - got a build ready to go with everything
except the bars. It laughs at me every morning. What's the clamp diameter, material etc?

wheels Sounds like you have a 68mm BB shell and not a 73mm BB shell . . . or the shell has been 'faced' once or twice by an over zealous mechanic.

. . . nothing to worry about if it is only two or three threads, once you have plenty of threads in the shell + it all turns nicely + there is no play then it shouldn't be a problem.

Here is a great thread over on BikeForums about Sug75BB installation - you probably don't need it now, but the bloke who did it did lots of nice photos so it is a great guide ! :)

Clickety click http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=208402

That would have been useful a couple of weeks ago. Still, mine seemed to go in ok though I haven't ridden it yet. I have about one thread of the adjustable cup visible outside the lockring, and it's a Fort track track frame - no reason to think that everything isn't as it should be.

OCD

damn you beat me to it!
That's from the World Beard and Mustache Competition (partial beard freestyle category) that was held in Brighton last year.
http://www.handlebarclub.co.uk/wbmcwinners.shtml

RPM "arguing on the internet"

but that's what the internet is for!!

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|³|MA3K It should be two competitions in one:

Race to a line within a set time(12 seconds or something) - brake - shortest distance

or even simpler, race from point A to point B without overshooting point B, with the distance just enough to get up to top speed. brakeless will accelerate (-200g or so) faster but will have to slow down earlier.

Reminds me of the science fiction staple, the low but sustained acceleration voyage: you accelerate at 1g with your heads pointing forward so you get gravity for free. After a few day/weeks/months of this, you're going screamingly fast, but you have to turn around half way and decelerate at 1g otherwise you'll overshoot your destination.

justMouse I think you should get points off for owning other items e.g.

• a geared bike
  
• a mtn bike
  
• anything made by Assos / Endura / Ron Hill
  
• mud guards
  
• reflective anything
  
• helmet
  etc.
  
  

lycra demolishes all points.

Was going to suggest front mounts for the free slot but now it's been filled in perhaps we could have
it instead of beer. I mean, f*ck, everyone drinks beer including sad old geezers like me.

danger joel with beer it should be red stripe.

yeah - well - definitely not the wife beater currently depicted!

dogsballs arrospok
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AEROSPOKE-TRACK-WHEEL-Pista-Frame-Bike-Hed-Spinergy_W0QQitemZ110229211261QQihZ001QQcategoryZ58089QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

£350 BIN in comments. wiggedy whack!

From the testimonial blurb: "Once you get your Aerospokes rolling, there is just no way of stopping them."
Yep. That's called inertia and is generally a bad thing in a bike.

heh. these are great. but the London Langster is is not 'Hipster'. It's just wrong.

I score 1. For roll ups. Do I win?