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Deda do some 'leather effect' tape that is around the £15 mark and looks good in pics but I haven't seen in the flesh - never could find it in stock. Charge do the budget option as it appears on the Plug. I bought my Brooks tape off here 2nd hand for £20 and I would say if you can get a good deal on it then it's worth spending a bit more. It feels good, looks good, is very hard wearing and wears in nicely, and can be used again and again. The wooden plugs that come with it are rubbish though!

Do you mean you have cut the spokes free from the rim? If so it can be very difficult. You'll have to clamp the hub in a vice and get a chain tool to the cog. Are you reusing your hub? If the vice doesn't work you may need to build the wheel back up with the cog on there - if you can get the spokes in ok - and remove the cog when you're done.

Hi everyone. I had my seatpost and saddle pinched from outside the Wellington on Balls Pond Rd on Friday night. Between 10:30 and 11pm. It was an almost new brown Brooks B17 narrow on a Campagnolo aero silver post 26.8. There are some scratches on the back of the seatpost where it fell inside my frame once.

Slim chance I know, but if anyone sees this for sale please contact me.

Thanks.

James.

If you're trying to break the round the world record then you should be strapped in. For any other kind of touring you should wear whatever is most comfortable for you. If you want to clip-clop around the world in cycle specific footwear - that is up to you.

Yep. Paselas like everyone else says. I've been riding mine 25mm font and back for 1000k plus not a puncture on either.

That's better.

Current Projects on 2nd page of Bikes 'n' Bits?

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Awesome x loads. New favourite bike.

Thanks CoppiThat. Great advice. Didn't know that about the collars. On the High St who does good shirts? Reiss? Zara?

What shirts would people recommend? Got a series of interviews coming up that I need to smarten up for. I need to buy 3-4 shirts so don't want to be paying more than £40ish per shirt. I think I want something pretty classic - not too flashy or trendy.

I don't think this frame is an old Track Champ. Dolan never made them with a sloping TT AFAIK.

Nice. But not as nice as the Singers that it's copying!

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Wow Jambon. Stunning. Henry Morris? Are these NOS? Or are these just new? Very cool idea to make the headbadge from the lugs.

[QUOTE=spotter;2142402]Looks nasty I agree. But this was the saddle that Mark Beaumont used when he cycled around the world. Must be something to it.

From the Alex Singer shop at the weekend:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62744242@N08/?saved=1

Cyclotouriste porn.

More pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62744242@N08/?saved=1

I was in Paris at the weekend with my bike and rode out to the Alex Singer shop in Levallois Perret. It's an incredible place. Based in the same premises and making some of the finest bikes in the world since 1938. The shop was tended just by Olivier Csuka himself, with a couple of early show bikes on the shop floor, and some modern equivalents with full Dura Ace and shellacced bars! I was lucky enough to be invited to check out the workshop at the back of the shop itself, packed to the rafters (literally!) with amazing French bikes - of course loads of Singers and about a half dozen Rene Herse machines, plus many more.

It felt a real honour to have been allowed to see all of this amazing cycling history. And Mr. Cuska was so friendly and without a hint of attitude or pretension. A truly awesome place to visit.

Enjoy the pics.

Stunning. Scrolling down this thread I thought this must have sold. Someone snap it up.

Skimmed this thread, and if this is a repost then much sorriness, but this has to be the best rap verse of the best rap song ever:

Get from in front of me,
The crowd runs at me,
My DJ is warm he's dope I call him Norm ya know -
He can cut a record from side to side,
So what the ride the glide, can be much safer than a suicide.
Soul, control, beat is the father of your rock n; roll,
Music for watchin' for witchin' you call a baad man,
Makin' a music abuse it -
BUTCHA CAN'T DO IT YA KNOW -
THEY CALL US DIMMOS - BUT WE RIDE LIMOS TOO.
Whatcha gonna do, rap is not afraid of you,
Music for Yoko Ono!
Music for Sonny Bono!
Run DMC first said a DJ could be a band,
Stand you on your feet, get you out your seat.
B is for Eric B and LL as well, hell,
Wax is for ANTHRAX, still they can rock bells,
Ever forever, universal it will sell,
Time for me to exit, Terminator X it!
Turn it up!

Bring tha noize!*

*(Typed from memory from 1991 recollections - some lyrics will be made up)

Dibs Milremo please. PM coming.

I can't help thinking you're need to be pretty light on your feet to stand on a 3.5mm thick plate of anything, although they carefully shoot every photograph so that you have to sit and scratch your head a bit before you notice that they must be about 16mm thick where the platform blends to the axle, which means the platform is effectively canted outwards if you place your foot tight to the pedal boss, which, by the way, increases your Q-factor by about 20mm compared with normal pedals.[/QUOTE]

+1 MDCT. Plus if the benefit of these super skinny pedals is a couple of mms of lean either way, then they're going to be paid for by race teams or people who have money to burn. Ride budget Shimano spds and you'll get an extra 2 cms of lean. If you're riding fast enough for the flat pedals to be an issue for you, you can probably either afford them or you don't have to worry about it.

I'd like to know more about the Somec. I know they're held in very high regard. While I am Googling, I'd like to have the forum opinion. The awesome space-race paintjobs must play a part, but what else makes their reputation?

All gone except the cranks & BB. Available tonight only for £25! I'm away for a spell from tomorrow so won't be able to hand them over after tonight...

Lovely. Have a bump.

SUPERDROP

£25 for the helmet

£25 for the cranks and BB and I can throw in a 42 or 49 tooth chainring for £4

Only for tomorrow if you can pick up from E8.

PM and I'll send you my number to arrange pick up.

Jim.