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The Toad is a good front, i use that and a frog on the back

Its not about learning to use your brake, its physics, and when riding around london uses your brakes on corners to avoid incoming peds etc is and every ride necessity - one of the main benefits of fixed is the abililty to subtly modulate rear wheel speed much more effectively than a rear brake.

Having seen it in the flesh, Stevo_Com's hub is loverly jubberly

I love that shop, used to go there all the time when I was a Chelsea resident... Really happy to hear they're still in business... Bought some awesome 2nd hand Mavic lo-pro bars from there years and years ago, cost pennies... Need some black Frogs for stealth bike so may pop in...

Yeah mad dad (now 78) cycled to work every day till he retired at 70 on a 50's Raleigh gents bike, and he always took his bike down there, Mr Day fixed up my numerous youthfull bicycle experiments such as turning an Emelle Santana into a lo-pro using bmx forks and a bmx scooter wheel (remember those!?) more times than i can remember - best bike mechanic i have ever met, he is the only person i have met who can polish a turd, he built half the beaters round fulham

I am same height as you, and liked the 54 when i test rode it, mainly because like you i am more used to a frame with a sloping top tube, and like a bit more clearance, and also because i would more options getting it to fit by fing around with stem, post etc. Ended up getting a langster instead - this was back in 05 though

You should check this bike out if you want a 56 . .

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread10711.html#post302508

Only 2 people can pull of the beret

really?
the only bad thing i heard he was into was puppy killing mindlessly for sport.

Fixed

So what did young Eric do with this bike?

...by taking one of the brakes off, removing the mudguards, stripping it down, and giving it different tires--the kind for riding over mud--I turned it into what we call a “track” bike.

And it is always better to remove the rear brake as the front has more stopping power.

If i had to run one brake with a freewheel it would be the back, because you can use properly it in corners and low speed manouvers, and if it locks up you aren't fucked.

Its like on a motorbike, you use the front 90% of the time, and only use the rear for corrective braking in the corners, but it is this that makes you able to ride the bike safely. A lot of custom bikes only run a rear brake to achieve a clean look ( a bit like fixed gears), but use a big un and it its perfectly good on the road, though you do sacrifice some ultimate stopping power

Hipster cysts is prob his best ever article!

I am pretty sure evans have a few 08's and even some Black 07's in various London SHops

Not sure but have seen them for 10 quid plus in some shops

Just popped into my LBS in Fulham, Days Cycles which has been run by Mr Day himself for the last 40 years, and is something of an aladins cave, and saw he sells Knogs, has a shed load of them, and is expecting more, and he only sells them for £6.99, he also has the Toads for 17.99.

Though some of you lot might be interested

Days Cycles is at

213 Dawes Road
Fulham
SW6 7QZ

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=sw6+7qz&ie=UTF8&ll=51.481811,-0.210543&spn=0.006374,0.018625&z=16&iwloc=addr

People who dont cycle have been wearing cycling caps since there were cycling caps - everyone seemed to have em in the early 80's

Those 75's are sex wee

Bad luck dude, I got a folding Rubino on my 700c really easily.

Yup . . i was warned the contis were a bastard, but was all i could get my hands on in a 650 at short notice - but worked out well as the Iron Man TT's come in colored flavors for full HHSB effect

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Great rims, but a fucker to put the tire on to - have a front 650 and it took 2 days, 4 shops and 10+ people to get a Conti GP on it - have now switched to a Michelin Iron Man TT as i would have been better off riding a tub than getting the conti on again

is it really? £7 for a NJS chrome cages and a fiver for the strap oppose to a cheap £14 (as far as I know) clipless pedal and required you to spend more on getting a shoe to fit your cleat on?

I said HHSB Double Strap - about 60 quid all in last time i checked, and thats before you have bought some super limited edition Dunks or similar to slip into them

Time Atac Aliums + mid range cycling shoe is the same price

+1 to what Hippy said, even though i am toying with being a lady boy and putting straps on the Lo-Pro for aesthetic reasons

Clipless is way cheaper than a set of HHSB double strapped cages and pedals.

I love the look of a nice cage pedal, but the only reason to ride a cage is for looks or if you are alergic to cycling shoes, going clipless increases your control even further, and is much easier to engage/disengage than straps = safer if you are nervous about such things.

Powerstraps are a good half way house for those not keen on any sort of foot retention, but wanting to move on their game

it not really a bargain when a couple tenner get you an IRO Mark V frame, which is undoubtly much better than that alu track frame;

Actually i disagree with you there, if you ignore the paint job that is a fine frame for the track, whereas the IRO is a decent road frame

Don't play but love the craftmanship that goes into guitars - my best mate is a serious collector, and has the second model off the production line of the first edition Les Paul Robot guitar - that thing is mental, and although he bought it out of curiosity he now swears by the tech.

Tis always the case

I've a few bikes; road, SS mountain and track...
Personally a lot of the argument for SS & Fixed is bull, "the freedom of not worrying about gears" "oneness with my bike" etc... Untill about 3 years ago all the bikes i rode had gears and guess what? it never worried me and i was experienced enough to know when to change them appropriately.

I wish people would just admit that riding fixed is simply novel or fashionable & SS isn't a big departure from a geared bike (bar slight weight difference & no derailleur to catch on rocks).

Please Please i wish people would stop taking derailleurs off their old road bikes, but keeping the cassettes and running SS. THEN also taking off the rear brake. WTF. It makes more sense to keep the rear brake then remove the front one if your so concerned with bike/component weight loss. This behovour is on the rise it seems.

I agree with you on the SS and running only a front brake, perhaps so it looks like a fixed, stupid. But probably 90% of shit that is done to fixed bike is cosmetically led even if it it performance related, e.g me just ordering a red CK headset form the US, rather than easily picking up a black one here!

However i ride more SS than fixed, mainly because my fixed bike always seem to be in pieces due to some new bit ariving!, but do feel that fixed you have more feel for the bike, in a way that is perhaps unquantifiable.

Without a doubt SS/Fixed is a major fad at the moment, personally i look forward to it all calming down a bit as one of the mainn reason i got into initially SS was that you could put together a cheap knock around bike for fuck all, but the hipsterising of the scene has made this far harder

Any one ever seen this before?

i just stumble across it as they did a piece on a friend of mine who has just done a John O Groats to Lands end charity ride on a four person custom quadricycle.

You can download it here

http://www.urbancyclechic.com/2008/09/free-pdf-download-of-latest-urban-velo-magazine-9/

Brilliant