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this is such a beautiful bike (just had a look again), time to wash the bike and then Brasso it up.

that would make a big difference, don't ever paint it, just clean the bike and brasso it up as much as you can to make it look as if it roll out of the production line like that.

I've been riding one since december and I must admit it's stiff, but you get quickly used to it (HTFU). For the price I still think it's good value especially as an entry level bike.

stiff as fuck! it's amazing how much stiffer it is compared to my old roadie that has been converted to a fixie.

all you have to do is change a couple of compound and it'll be comfortable.

I think if a shop priced the product for less (or more) than it's suggested price, unless they quickly withdraw it, they must sell it at the suggested price.

it probably limited to shop really, I don't think it's included when you sell house, car etc.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVzVWJlF80
here it is...he falls to sleep.if you are going to fall to sleep while driving at least put your seatbelt on.

I love how the American seemed to oppose the seatbelt law, saying it should be a choice, they shouldn't be fine for not wearing one.

"it's our god-given right to choose not to wear seatbelt in america", good god, methinks too much freedom can be bad frankly.

I got the grey one, its pretty comfy, but only ridden it for 20 miles or so...

I like the grey one more now that I think about it, ah well, at least the white one encourage me further to respray the Bianchi Pista in light grey.

I went to my local Action Bike shop in Wimbledon, as I ordered a white charge spoon saddle, as it's comfortable as fuck for a cheap saddle.

only to my surprise that the white charge saddle I got wasn't the normal one, it's in fact the titanium one (I notice the logos is baby blue instead of red), they made a mistake in their whole Charge Spoon saddle line-up, they're selling titanium one for £20 instead of £50.

thought I rather like them, so I told the guys at Action Bike that they mispriced the charge saddle, but they let me have the white titanium for £20 anyway, since I pointed out the error, they would've lost quite a handful of money had they sold it (and they're popular here), they let me have it for £20, result!

Is the bike sticker simply sticker or is it covered with clear paint? if not the latter, you can easily peel them off, and then use white spirit to removed the sticky stuff - work every time and you'd get a cleaner looking bike.

I'd steer clear of the bianchi pista if i were you. the frames nice but the rest of the stuff isn't, i had one 2 years back and the crank bolt snapped after 6 months. and it's a really bumpy ride.

the compound itself are perfect for track, just not so for street.

either way it still got a good compound really.

oooh.. can I be a bit controversial? and say these Drummond bikes really are unique in comparison to the generic double-deepV'd cropped riser'd fixed bikes that are currently clogging the highways and byways of London? ;)

do you really want to ride an England football themed fixed gear mountain bike in London instead of the Unipack shite?

despite the unipack bike that are notoriously rubbish and handle also, rubbishly, I'd still prefer to ride those than a england football team fixie.

Or even Brick Lane Bikes?

when you convert a road bike, people say you kill puppies, why? no idea.

any road bike is fine, no puppy killing is required, like those Peugeot, Raleight, etc. road frame but when I (and other) see someone transform a really rare, unique frame, especially a hand-made lightweight one being use for something that it's not designed for, it's killing puppies (especially when they're modifying the frame, i.e. cutting off the braze-ons).

I don't go for this 'good on him for making a buck' shit. If he was just tarting bikes up and selling them, then fair enough, but he's cynically exploiting people's interest in single speed/fixed bikes and abusing it. Nothing wrong with providing a quality product, but come on. Those kind of prices would get you a REALLY nice bike from the Fixed Gear London guys.

a Charge Plug, Specialised Langster (new york edition even), Bianchi Pista, Lemond Fillmore, Kona Paddy Wagon etc. those are much better alternated and what more - they come with warranty, come from chain bike shop (like Evans) that likely to offer a 1 year free tune-up or summat package

why the FUCK would I pay FIVE HUNDRED pound of my well-earned cash for a England football team mountain bike, I mean, MOUNTAIN bike, when I can use the money to paid for a proper track bike, no scratch that, a proper track frame and plenty of money left over to hand it in to a reputable bike shop that can built your dream bike for you.

Fixed Gear London can able to build you a good bike for £400, for £550, you'd get a really unique proper track bike from them.

If you have the money get Phils, you won't be sorry.

you will be if the wheel/s got stolen, to some it like losing a whole bike, as lovely and gorgeous those Phils are, I'm still worried about it getting stolen easily, and slighty annoyed that I have to constantly locked the wheel/s everytime i want to lock the bike.

how much you spent on a build does not equal how much its worth. I spent £200 on my pug and despite it being a lovely conversion I doubt it would fetch even that. You can get a brand new Fuji Track for just £70 extra...(for e.g)

I sold it for £200 thought, I once started a topic asking how much my bike would fetch and the general respond is £180-200, so about that it'd fetch that much.

my build on a cheap pug frame cost me 350....:( so is his prices really that bad??

I assumed you use decent compound and sometime ask a bike shop to do certain stuff for you like replacing the BB?

it cost me £200 to build up my Pug, and the bike shop did almost everything for me, building the rear wheel for a fixed wheel, replacing the BB, well that about it.

why did he not re use those hubs, they are campy record track arnt they? also, i think the only improvment that he made with his upgrade was swaping stems. sorry for bringing up this bike again.

because I remember there's horror story about those track hub disintergated during heavy use on the street, fine for track, not so for street, at least that I think I remembered.

spotted this nice looking fixie outside caledonian road, king's cross, the owner must be in that pub nearby or shopping in Tesco, whoever rode this must be tall as fuck!

classy saddle by the way (and great paintjob on the frame, picture doesn't do justice at all).

we know how cars sounded when they crashed with each other, we know how bicycles sounded when they crashed with each other.

Right now I just don't want to know what a car and bicycle combine sounded when they've crashed.

saw a bloke riding an black IRO with orange velocity rims, also sporting an orange messenger bag on Penton Road just near Pentonville Road at about 6pm.

what about foxton's cunts in their cuntmobiles?

we called those cockmobiles, collect them all!

http://flickr.com/groups/foxtonscockmobiles/

you should always point out a slack chain, as you all seem to do anyway. its actually more of a safety concern than anything.

I once followed a bloke who have a slack chain for about 10 minutes (going on the same route as he is, you know, the long straight of Southampton Row), as I slow down and approach him casually mentioned the slack chain, turn out he's running singlespeed, just never stopped pedalling.

"so why do you keep pedalling thought?"

"people will assumed I'm riding a fixed wheels"

what the fuck?

im finding my pista a pain have a b17 now so i can walk straight , fitted a freewheel but it feels wierd its coming off and back to fixed tomoro , i need a stem or aybe riser bars are the answer

the original saddle is quite sore isn't it? going back to freewheel made the bike felt a lots looser, does that make sense?

if you got any old handlebar lying around, swap those around, see how comfortable it is, before buying one thought, riser tend to be a hit or miss.

mind you it's idea to change the original drop bar since it's pretty much a heavy track bar, not exactly comfortable on road.

this is precisely what I meant, it's a bit too risky to run QR on a fixed wheels, a bit more delicate than the usual one.

hours of fun

I'm trying to get a good colour combination, as I wanted to get the bike resprayed, chrome is just too much.

that's it! thank mate that what I'm looking for.