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Not sure if anyone has "lost" a London Langster recently but

http://www.gumtree.com/london/97/23028097.html

This just looks fishy.

Chris

He can have my Condor PIsta frame & forks for £350 if he likes. Just slap on some bits from Cavendish or, dare i say it, Condor.

Dude. We really need to discuss route tomorrow at the westend beers. You can't leave this purely up to me as we'll end up riding somewhere like here

Which probably isn't really the training that you want :]

Do you really need a big willy bike to do this? I'd like to give it a go though so where is it?

Chris

Hello!

Epping's alright but to be honest I always end up playing in the Cultural heritage site. This is expressly forbidden by the way but those bomb holes are great fun.

The area's nice and hilly but it's mostly wide gravelled paths, unless of course you ditch the paths and just head straight into the forest.

Avoid the paths! There is a pretty interesting route from Snaresbrook to Epping and back. I tried it after a night of drinking and left waymarkers in green puke. I felt very i'll and scared a bunch of walkers with constant vomiting. Epping forest is only really any fun when it's dry and dusty, then you can get a bit of speed up, otherwise it's a bit of a slog.

Chris

nice lugs shame about the paint

£150.

And the dents? Is that what they are?

I have enough halflink chain to cover a 32/16 mtb type setup. it came off of a cove handjob ss thing i picked up a while back.

Sitting around.....

chris

3X will be about 290mm, my condor hubs laced to Open pro's are. I can't imagine there will be much difference.

Chris

My suggestion would be just to do a long/difficult ride that you want to do, set up a justgiving page to raise money for the charity of your choice and pester everyone you know to donate. Is what I plan to do anyway.

i was interested in the Big Issue cycle to Paris but didn't think i'd get enough sponsorship to make the minimum amount. I'm still up for cycling for charity though and agree with H2o about the way to do it.

Did you get this from BLB?

I almost bought a road frame branded the same as this last year. I was put off by the amount they wanted for it and went for something else instead.

Don't know much about them though. Maybe ask BLB?

it's a very distinctive bike..

can't be many tiny brown pistas around..

assuming it stays in London, it should be easy to spot. although something tells me that bikes like this end up out of town...

Chris will put it on the stolen bike blog for you when he sees this thread.

Where do they go? I've trawled other sites but never seen anything i think is fishy.

Or do you mean they go abroad?

chris

Ooh Poop!

Frame needs to go, i'm looking down both barrels of a new mortgage which isn't as funny as I first thought. I've just had clear out of the frames i've picked up along the way, this is another casualty i'm afraid.

No reasonable offer refused. I'm a, relatively, desperate man.

Cheers, chris

how many spokes? if it's too lightweight he may kill it :( . also coinage?

Hi,

I think it's 28 but i'll check.
£30? A little under what i paid for it.

Chris

The fulcrum 5 i bought off here a while ago has been sitting around doing nothing.

Any good?

Chris

This is true, mine is stamped 27760 on the non driveside dropout. Really faint as well....Buggers!

I'm sure it will go when it's resprayed.

Chris

I think i have one. An older un-ramped shimano in silver. £5 posted?
I'll sort out a picture later if you like.

Chris

Just staring at it won't get it built mate.

Well the cranks are rubbed to fuck but I'm sure I'll need em for a while. BB is sort of dependent on what I do about cranks...

I just realised i'd made an error. Doh!

"Starting to build...."

I think if you can find the serial number, mercian will date it by email.

Chris

i'm sure you know but this will help with anything pre 70's http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/hanczyc/mercian/mercian_homepage.html

otherwise i think most info on the Mercian website will help date it.

MIne was dated as a 1960 KOM.

Chris

Out of interest,

What age is the frame supposed to be?

Chris

Well, you'll have a buyer for the Cranks and BB if you want to sell them. I'm staring to build up an old tourer and need both.

Chris.

Ta,

i'm fie actually cold setting it. Just wonder if i should mess with an old frame. I think i'll just go ahead as planned. Can't hurt, can it?

Chris

.... and get it stolen as fast as you won it in the first place.

On this topic, sort of,

What the general consensus on re-spacing the rear of an old mercian? I've got this 1960 mercian (KOM?) which needs a bit of love. I've got a whole heap of old shimano road kit, no money and feel like the only way it's going to get ridden is if i re-space the rear from 120 to 130mm and shove on the shimano stuff. I was thinking about it as a kind of long range tourer or something. Otherwise, i'll leave it as it is, get it sprayed at some point and then sell it.

In moustache bars we trust,

Chris

T'was a good move to get shot of the spesh.

Just don't do the same with the monomaniac. That is a really nice bike ;)

+1 for the above.

it's excellent.