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Missy Giove?

MAn, that brings back some memories. I used to have a major crush on her when I was younger, not so sure now tho! ;)

I've got shed loads of videos with parts of her in at home. Pure class. 'MOUNTAIN BIKING UK' lass

I've seen that too.

The one I saw was sported an old calliper where the cable meet was further to the side than modern callipers, so the cable just went up sideways, but had a really low pull arm to go through (poor description I know).

Even with that your going to have problems if you start to angle the front wheel towards 80 degrees. Having said that it does make trackstanding a lot easier as you can rest the downtube against the cable!!

I can't off hand think of any modern callipers with such short cable pulls tho. Also you've got to bare in mind the fact that behind the fork braking systems simply aren't as efficient as in front, as shown by the old 90's Pace MTB which sported this, and then didn't the next year.

The prob is the motions of pull on in front brakes is nigh on horizontal, so the pressure exerted by the mounting is directly forward at the back of the fork, whereas if you have a behind brake the pressure is exerted a good 10/15 degrees upwards due to the circularity of the wheel, which inturn puts adverse forces on the steerer in the toptube at angles which are weaker for it

Would look good tho I think...

Yeah, the Jacobs on New Oxford Street definately has.

Hippy. Come to Wests this week and we can have a joint birthday where everyone insist on buying us drinks!! ;)

I've posted loads of my current two catfaces, so for variety, here are the two that I was fostering till they got rehomed.

This is Colin Feral. He'd just had some ear medicine at this point, so he looks a bit greasy. For some reason this is one of my most viewed photos on Flickr.

This is Little Tabby. Yeah, she was pretty ace.

They both got rehomed to a nice house in Brockley with a garden.

Bity of a quality photographer.

Georgeous, absolutely gorgeous.

we got fiddy and pigfarmer as well (i'll just double check)

Annoyingly my father had the audacity to pass away on the 8th March so am at home with my mother...

Unfortunate, as of all the rides in the world I think this is one of the most prominent in my heart, but I simply can't. Really sorry about that.

@ Prav, save me a spoke card and I'll wear/carry it with pride!

Noty sure if a repost, but if not I'm very dissapointed in you all...

was it just me who was this immature

glad to hear your safe though ;-)

remember shimano next time

You get a selection of the best cookies I could find. Took long enough didn't it tho! ;)

Cheers Emmeff, kind offer, but I should be fine. It looks like it's going to be pissing it down over the next few days and don't wanna be doing too many country miles brakeless in those conditions.

We'll have to go for a ride some time and let Bournemouths finest know who owns the pedestrianised parts of the town, US!

I've not laughed that hard since I read the 'I hit a Lambourghini' post earlier. It's been a good day!

Believe it or not I hate all Lambourghinis except this:

If that pulled out on me, you'd be right, except it wouldn't be urine...

Uh oh, I posted a car pic...

Hate to dissapoint you mate, you got the wrong one... THIS IS THE UNTIMATE MIURA....

(what is this? A car for ANTS?)

Is that the SAS logo?

Yeah, it's not the same one tho. I'm at home so I can't take a photo of the real one!

It's from the 70's I think, used to belong to my father. ;)

Unfuckwithable.

Makes me feel like i'm in 2001 all day, everyday.

I was so impressed with this that I've actually gone and ordered one! Sorry, hope that doesn't piss you off Cernan, but my lord that is a true representation of what you imagine people in the past thought space watches would look like.

It'll take pride of place next to the Monaco and the old Seamaster! ;)

sick enough that you should watch it too.

Guess you found it, good effort man, not the easiest to get hold of.

I think the privilege of posting rests in your hands fellow lover of all things pink and fat.

FOR F*CKS SAKE FFS FFS FFS

I just got back from a ride on the Omega as brakeless and I've found out that the F*CKING bars are bent.

MY BLOODY NITTO RB021 BULLHORNS! AARRRGGGHHHH!

I was offered a shed load for them 2 weeks ago, now they're bust. Very, very ANGRY...

P.S. On a side note I nearly hit a coow today! WHOHA

hachet vs penis.

NO WAY I'm gonna post the link for that, but if it's your bag it's out there for you to find!!

My two peneth...

I think it's wrong to deliberately damage a car AT ALL. Although there is a little (huge) amount of hipocrasy in that statement as per Greasy Slag I have slapped (hard) at least 2 wing mirrors with drivers coming at me way too tightly and looked back after a very painful hit to see them 1. hanging down the side of the car and, 2. fallen to the floor (this instance was a Merc S-class - which would have been more expensive than the Lambo if it was a Gallardo).

The thing is every single similar instance I have had has always resulted in a huge amount of shame afterwards in myself that I had lowered myself to that level. When I tell the story to people I always explain how stupid and annoyed with myself I felt afterwards. As I hope most people would.

I can understand that in some instances; when a ride has been frought with near misses, annoying drivers, your girlfriends giving you greif, etc, people will see the red mist and do silly things they otherwise wouldn't, and I'd like to hope that this is a rarity, but with time to slow down significantly and aim to side smack a car purposfully is idiocy IMO.

As mentioned earlier, a quick slap of the window/body panel and a 2 fungers pointing at your eyes with a mouthing of the words 'FUCKING LOOK!!' Normally does the job pretty well for me.

By looking today there is a rubber mark on the trye, So I guess the pad must have loosened/been jolted, and then just caught and ripped. The calliper was on fine.

Thing I'm impressed about is the fact that the nut that screws onto the mounting bolt behind the fork is obviously designed to fail at the thread before the torque causes excess damage to the fork.

These engineers think of everything don't they!!

Oi, what are you talking about Fids? I'm 76kg!Classified 'very overweight' for my height ;)

I've actually not met a single ill-tempered ridgeback as of yet. But they are very strong and I'm not sure i'd be happy to smash into one and expect it to give me a lick. But I do love em. That and a Dober Pinscher are probably my two favorite breeds (actually don't get me started here).

In respect to the Mastiff, I know what you mean. I met a dealer type through a friend last summer at the Old Ship. This was easily the biggest American Mast I've ever seen. Humungeous. Studded collar, real (over) tight on the leash. Owner with gold caps on his teeth. You know where I'm going... He's constantly pulling the dog, making him sit and look sharp, trying to rile him.

Anyway, I gave him a little attention and had him on his back letting me stroke his belly in a few mins. You should have seen the guys face, properly pissed off. twat

Yeah right. When it all first happened I thought it was an American Mastiff (as sported by a lot of West Londons Gangsta-wannabe dealers), which I feel would have been a bit worse!

I've got a club ride on Sunday which will be a long'un taking us deep into Somerset and back across into Hampshire, then back down. The planned route has got some of the South-wests finest hills, including zig-zag hill, so I'm not 100% sure I'll be doing that brakeless, but might see how things go.

Family Guy. BBC 3. NOW! That'll sort ya!

Treat it as war scars mate. Looks more used. Bikes look goot like that.

Although having said that it's weird that much would peel so quickly. Luckily forks are easily replaced!

No hugs no love (although my mother did give me one when I got back home).

It was a second hand purchase, so don't really know how old it was. Wasn't the pads as I'd installed them myself.... or maybe that was it ;).

Can't really get my head around the fact it looks like nothing else got damaged. Anyway, new bartape, new calliper. I'm going on a spending spree! Whoa

Got...

..but needs a new strap as the leather is close to failing, way more money than I can afford at the mo (aligator skin).

want...

real bad

The classic Hublot Big Bang (opinion remains divided, but I love it), this is the HIGHLY ltd Ayrton Senna edition

Need...

Girard-Perregaux ww.tc.

Parmigiani Tondagraph, 1 of 30 to be made @ almost $1m. Exclusivity is a luxury, not a right! Haha

Slightly more realistically (although not really) is the old Bernard Richards Manufacture

So.....

I've just arrived at Bournemouth Station and decide to take the scenic route back to Poole along the promenade, but first I have to cut through the town centre. Perfect opportunity for some crowd dodging through the pedestrianised bit (don't worry, no one died).

In and out of the peds carving away down the hill into the centre when all of a sudden the biggest f*cking rhodesian ridgeback I've ever seen lunges across the road to attack a terrier of some kind. He's gone straight into my path. Anyway, long story short, I dodged, locked my legs skidding and was still gonna hit him so went for the brake.

Fingers, lever, pull, slow, slower, BAM! The whole thing just blows up. I can remember this sudden lack of control, then I saw bits of metal flying all over the place, cable rips out from under my bar tape , pulls my fingers off the bar, hands come off, brake calliper explodes out of the fork, it hangs by the side of the front wheel and I'm just watching it teasing me as it keeps catching onto a spoke and then hanging on around the wheel it would just fall as it's about to rip into the rear of the fork. Anyway, managed to bring it to a stop before anything horrendous happened.

Here's the brake...

Unincreadible as the whole thing is, I've just never seen or heard of anything like this happening before. I didn't put too much pressure on the brake at all and barely ever use it. Anyway, looks like I'm gonna have to put an old 105 on for the time being untill I find a decent replacement.

On the positive side. I'm now riding brakeless and will be till at least next Tuesday when I get back to London. What a bloody amazing feeling it is, I didn't realise just how much of a psychological aid having a front brake is (although I very rarely use it anyway). Gonna see how things go over the next few days and maybe streamline the Omega and keep it raw.

Maybe a new build is on the horizon instead. Weird, how can me nearly killing a dog lead to me wanting to build a new bike? ;)

Right, just found this on facebook on a friends page (yes she's my friend).

I'm taking it to Scandinavia right now. It's not fixed, but it is a Stokholm City Bike so I think that makes it kinda cool.