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So murtle fell off more than once? The one outside the pub was a classic.

Good to see everyone again.

I missed my last train home, so took one to Strood (near Rochester), from there it's only 8 1/2 miles home. Unless that is you go in completly the wrong direction and ride around the Chatham/Gillingham area for 50 minutes. Already looked it up, my total mileage was 16! Finally got in at 2:30am.

Still not sure. If I do, I'll be there same time as Brett, 5:45pm ish.

BTW the new wheels are a good job everyone! You'll see for yourselves tonight.

Hope you don't mind, Mr TheBrick, but I've Bikely'ed your route so you can view the profile (click on show, then profile).

[ame=http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/88920]Rochester

]Rochester Ride[/ame]

The profile gets lost a bit near the end sadly. The route out follows the TdF stage until it reaches Higham. The roads from Cuxton to Longfield are nice, the profile shows an enormous mountain, but it's just a bit draggy in reality.

Could possibly join you (would have to check with the diary, aka the wife), but would be on a road bike and I'd swing off at Meopham as I live just 6 miles SSE (as the crow flies) from there. Couldn't get to the start until about 9:15am though.

Only thing about rides to Kent is that you have to ride through a fair chunk of London to get there. If anyone wanted to do a Kent ride and travel down by train to a mainline station I'd be up for it. I'm from near Maidstone, but can easily get to any other station. Best would either be Sevenoaks (30 mins from Charing Cross), or Swanley (25 mins from Victoria). But that's for another day for another thread. This is Tommy's thread and ride :0)

Dragon Ride ;0)

Riding around the Isle of Wight is great, and hilly than you'd expect, especially round the south-east part. Took a nice shot (using my old Nokia) of my brother riding up into the fog on the climb out of Shanklin towards Ventnor about 2 1/2 years ago.

Yes, that is his real hair.

20/80 for Thursday (as in yes/no). Definitely not Friday.

I will wave as I pass.

The Kent Cyclosportive is reasonably flat, but with a bitch of a climb (One Tree Hill, also known as Carters Hill) about 2 miles before the finish. Anyone getting up that after 140km whether on a fixed, SS or geared bike gets my respect (except anyone with a granny gear!).

By the way, I'll also be entering it.

I'd take the crank off using a crank extractor (Halfords sell one for about a fiver if no-one has one to lend), degrease the BB spindle and the crank area where the spindle enters, do a light re-grease back on the spindle and reassemble.

Give it a week and retighten the crank bolt if required, then (touch wood) all should be well!

dogsballs that frame was on ebay the other day and sold for £64?!?

Indeed it was, somewhere in the HUGE listing text it says there was due to a bidding mistake. Therefore Andy, don't go for the Buy It Now option, bide your time if you still decide to go after it.

Nice!

Hi pnagle, any pics of the Ciocc? I could do with some pure old-school Italian porn today :0(

** No worries, found one, so ignore, cheers!**

Morning!

Does anyone know where I can get hold of any 8mm track axles? The one I have on my rear wheel is too narrow for my super wide alu rear dropouts, I can get about 2 threads on each track nut if I'm lucky. Need about 145mm, the smallest I could get away with would be about 138-140mm. Preferably in the UK.

I can only assume the wheel belonged to a bike which a) had super narrow dropouts, or b) the owner cut down the axle to save weight, or c) both the previous!

Cheers all
Sam

Sounds suspiciously like the rim tape has worn and the top of a spoke is rubbing on the tube.

Happened to me once, I wasn't amusing, although I wasn't on a trainer at the time!

I was after a change of colour scheme

Thanks for the tip, fatbloke. I'll try tomorrow, if not, I'll wait a few days.

Rang Mr Vaz yesterday for a quote. Home phone diverted straight to mobile phone answerphone so left a message giving details of the work required plus my contact details.

How long should I leave it to try contacting him again? I suppose this question goes out to people who have dealt with him in the past.

Cheers.

flickwg pics pls

I dress up as a woman at weekends.

Happy birthday. Get pissed!

Agreed, great meeting up with everyone last night.

Same venue would be fine for me, I have to ride past it every night anyway!

Fold it up and bring it inside....

It's quite heavy you know.

If no-one minds a Bromptoneer I'll be there just after 6.

Come one, it's only got one sprocket and one chainring, just pretend the rear hub is fixed...

Oh dear. You shouldn't have pushed the pin right through the chain plate. When this happens it could take you either minutes or days. Always leave the pin just in the link plate.

A shop 'might' do it for you for a couple of £s.

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