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@winston and RPM: er....obviously I'm not getting the right idea about ff spacing measurements here.

back to Sheldon's site.

oh yeah sorry BMMF probably obvious but can't help out with 16t cog, kind of the next hunt for me..

I found one ages ago, trawling for tunes in a charity shop, that cracked me up enough to buy it. It was dark blue with a mysterious silver thread emblem on it, kind of like an elongated fleur de lys. Then if you caught it at the right angle you realised it said "charlesanddiana" in mirror writing.

I'm comin as I am now offically in the catchment area even if my heart's still in the east.

ha!ha!

btw I'd like to offer my stomach in friendship to anyone who wants to split a double deal. Though I did get through two last time I felt sullied by the experience, like I'd let myself down somehow.

sorry for the pause in proceedings guys, not been trying to keep people hanging but been nipping in and out today...

okay thanks for kind offer BMMF but looking for silver and 1/8 so hamster welcome to step in.

pj (pj) not been trying to mess you around, just thinking hard at the moment about costs and maybe would appreciate a chat at Monday drinks - for now not to cause ruction Tommy if you are ready for that chainring you did claim it first.

Marxist_fixie seem like he has the ideal chainring at the moment for my beater's existing cranks so I think I'll talk details with you dude.

Thanks all, most kind and helpful.

I suppose I'll get the blame if it grows up nicking bikes.

Cornelius A Blackfoot's titanium bike making light work of the incline on Vesta Rd, SE4, around 1600 hrs. CB atop his steed, red Campagnolo hat as usual, cycle top as usual, headphones rendering him oblivious to "OI COOOORNY!!!" as usual.

I have worn ties less than most, and always grudgingly. I have had to wear one at times as a cheese-eating demonstration of my need to pay rent.

For me the tie doesn't suggest an arrow to one's cock, rather the sarcastic tease of a hangman's noose.

I learned the windsor back in the early naughties, as an ironic response to a long-term office-dress ball-ache.

I believe I have to wear a tie tomorrow. So I'm just dusting off the few I have, trying to work out which one least says, "I haven't bought a tie for some time."

I just bought a pair of these:

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-SJSC-SJSC-Double-Fixed-Large-Flange-Track-Hubs-with-high-quality-sealed-cartridge-bearings--Polished-Alloy-finish--per-pair-36-hole-11137.htm

£40.00, double-sided fixed.

winston any idea whether the front hub can be spaced to 110mm?

Sammy if it's any consolation there was a sense that it was turning into one of the lamest threads of all time very early on and we have been taking the piss out of it with some of the lamest humour of all time - sorry if you got far enough to post something..

..asm I told you you should have left it well alone... look what's happened now, someone's got miffed..

this thread is officially closed...thank you and gut evening...

oh no problem if Matt isn't around Mary, I was just coming over for one of your breakfasts...

;)

hope to see you in a couple of weeks' time then, not around next weekend myself.

Hey!! how's about this? instead of a sign saying "Golf Sale " I could give you one saying "Thief" and then when I come and and the bike's gone you could just forlornly point the arrow in the direction he went. Oh, man!! That would be so cool, like Marcel Marceau..!

Okay going for a long bike ride now.

Matt is the Sunday workshop open this week? Thought it might be nice to stop off, will be rolling back from a mate's over in Totteridge (Way up north London).

Also a chance to bump the thread back up..

very cruel of you asm, very cruel. I checked in today and was relieved to see this thread nestling snuggly down the page, 15 hours after Mister K had also commented on weirdness. Then it gets brought to the top so even more people can go "WTF"....

I could stretch to two pound sixty. I'll throw in a sign to the nearest golf shop.

cheers Jonny but I've got a 52, trying to bring it down so I can have more options on for the rear.

can you tie a windsor knot, phil?

I can't. but then I never wear a tie..

Half-windsor, yes. The windsor is in theory elegant but requires too much tie to achieve discreetly. A contemporary example of the pitfalls of attempting this most solacious of knots is best illustrated by sportsmen at prizegivings and young working men at weddings.

The half windsor affords a more satisfying knot - and pinch - while retaining sufficient length not to require a waistcoat.

would I be able to space it out to 130 though? those threads look like they haven't got 5mm either end to play with..sorry Mikeymerk, not tryin to hijack or nuttin'...

cheers guys, formula gets rebranded so much I'd lost track of what it lurked as...:P

I do know - that Tommy. I think I need a pause in the process here though - know you want to sell them and not bowing out yet but maybe I should try and work with the crank on my beater.. I'm thinking about the bottom bracket too - the costs are mounting for what was ostensibly supposed to be a cheap alternative and for my nice build (currently up on bricks, not the Raleigh) I need a bb for sure among about another 250 quid's worth of stuff..

How much did you have on the chainring orgininally?

provenrad what kind of response do these Zenith hubs get compared to say Formula? are they a good option for a beater or will I rue the day I bought about three months down the line?

GA2G will be wading in on that one.......

yeah the first two definitley aren't the ones I'm trying to get hold of, they're awful.

The last ones may just be photographing nicely, not sure, but still fairly certain they're bagged in with in the others.

I was rather young so memory may be playing tricks, but they were gorgeous to look at and to hold and the grip strangely enough seemed to have the texture of the underside of a mushroom.

re the tagging and flaming: this is dumb. There are fixed riders who buy from these shops who aren't on this forum; there are also loads of us on here who'd never dream of banging on about someone so vindictively and explicitly. This shit starts making it look like the whole "community" is a bunch of shitstirrers and the bike shops that we rely on to go to for parts and juicy slave bling will view us warily at best and as demanding, arrogant cunts at worst.. great for those of us who already have a shop they have built up a relationship with but for newer guys still building (I include myself) an obstacle to be overcome where none should exist.

I can't believe a guy has been mentioned by name on here and had pretty much a thread devoted to ruining his reputation (the bad comments always carry for more weight than the good ones). He must be either mortified or thinking "fuck this whole shit". Come on guys does anyone love to feel like that?

I might stave off the fixing of the CS for this one, I don't think I'd be pulling it off without gears if it's any hillier than the Cambridge roll. Looks like spires, signed up for oysters, gonna be brilliant no matter what..cheers Jonny.

cool that's what I thought. Somebody assured me different, think wires must have got crossed.

Cheers - so next question about brake levers n hoods comes into play..