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I feel the anger, but I really don't see how pissing people off is going to get us anywhere good.

great idea, i'm in in whatever colour and time is decided. White seems good to me as it is not generally associated with death and negativity nor with being a 'tie-dyed' protest lobby. It would be a bold statement and would be an easy link for the press to the ghost bikes.

But it could fall into the 'bloody cyclists think they are are whiter than white' cliché. (Not disagreeing with the choice, just saying.)

I'm in favour of a weekend protest, aiming for truly huge participation, lots of media, celebs, etc. The event should be a memorial for those who have died, and be as specific as we can be about that (sadly, statistics switch most people off).

Rush-hour disruption feels too much like an aggressive response, an invitation to escalate the violence of the roads.

Quite sunny for a night ride, but a lot of fun. I absolutely loved rolling along through the countryside as colour seeped back into the sky, the cool air between the mist filled fields, seeing a long snake of red tail lights ahead of me slithering around a roundabout, a river of cyclists flowing along between the high hedges on little lanes nearer the end, swooping down into Brighton.

Extra special thanks to moth for tightening my crank bolts without the aid of a torque wrench and tentative diagnosis of pitted bearing races.
Yes, really not confident in the calibration of my hand's torque settings. Hopefully i've not overdone it.

Oh yeah, stunning show from neverclever and esther_rabbit, shame they missed the pretty bit after Gatwick.

I am so burned. Don't fall asleep on beaches, people.

A lot of determination shown at the back - must be really awful to catch up with a lot of riders lounging around on the road-side, only for them all to zoom off again.

I fled the beach when i realised i was starting to scorch, so am a little rosy red.

Hope this doesn't break the internet:

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m35/blackdice23/LFGSS-DITCHLING360.jpg

That's awesome. I remember that sea of blazing white mist that had flowed in over the land to the east.

Thanks Oliver for making this happen. To all for good company and the great spirit of the ride.

gunna go home glue some of my spokes back to their nipples

...?!

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. gormley
   
3. coppiThat
   
4. damo (nothing in the calendar clashes, in. and willing to act as backstop as well)
   
5. Broker
   
6. Steff
   
7. Middleofnowhere
   
8. kx.001 - you know I'm on this one. Will act as backstop if you need.
   
9. Jung - will bring many spares tubes after 3 punctures in 2 days :(
   10.yeh731
   
10. atk - alex
    
11. porter7474 +1(maybe)
    
12. CYOA
    
13. marcom
    
14. Ben
    
15. huge
    
16. jacklamusica - will be my first night ride, looking forward to it!
    
17. hoonz - at AC/DC on 26th, not looking good
    
18. mattty
    
19. edmundro
    
20. [Josh] MURR
    
21. Spins
    
22. CRISPIN GLOVER
    
23. okwithmydecay + 1
    
24. Sasmon
    
25. villa-ru
    
26. joesmooth
    
27. Brun (birthday beers in Brighton!)
    
28. Tiswas
    
29. Library Music
    
30. neverclever
    
31. esther bunny
    
32. SJ
    
33. DirtyD
    
34. matt_ha
    
35. nukeluc
    
36. Bad Matt
    
37. skiver
    
38. CRANE!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
39. Wibble
    
40. josephine
    
41. Conservative values baby
    
42. reeen
    
43. eoinmc
    
44. moth
    

right.
can someone bring a headset spanner? i have one but something doesn't feel right when i'm riding.
will explain in another thread and post a link to it in a second.

What size? I have a 32mm spanner i can bring.

you pay them 80 quid and they tell you they re-greased everything ( allegedly )

Or if it's a free service of a bike you recently purchased from them, you give them the bike to look after for a day. If you don't accept the offer and your bike subsequently fails, they tell you it's your fault and not covered by the warranty.

By the way, I hate it when people write without capitalisation of proper nouns (and the beginning of sentences). I also believe that anyone who talks of times (rather than multiplication) is either a primary school child or a moron.

i have seen it argued that text editing would be easier if only proper nouns are capitalised: you could cut & paste sentences around without having to edit the words they consist of. if capitalisation is still wanted to draw the eye to the start of sentences, programs displaying text can easily add it (while leaving the underlying data unchanged), or even provide some alternative indication. ambiguity about whether the first word of a sentence is also a proper noun currently precludes automatic capitalisation correction during editing.

not capitalising proper nouns is lazy.

oh, and:
'multiplied by' -- 4 syllables
'times' -- 1 syllable
(implicit multiplication) -- 0 syllables, but a restricted audience and ambiguity around multi-character factors.

Obligated? Made more oblong? What's wrong with 'obliged'?

How the hell do I take the freewheel off? More to the point is it worth me just going down to BLB and giving them a fiver to do it right?

Also will going from a 16t to a 18t kill me?

http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=48
See about half way down for pictures of the plethora of tools that may be required, and a link how to destructively remove a freewheel using a pin spanner and a vice in case no other tools are suitable.

Does the hub have a reverse thread?

i.e. looking carefully at where the freewheel attaches to the hub, might the threading be in two parts like in the OP's second photo, with your freewheel engaged only with the wider, right-handed part of the thread, leaving the threads at the end of the freewheel you can see hovering over thinner left-hand threads? If not, your hub probably doesn't have the section of thinner reverse thread required to fit a lock ring, and you need to think again about this project.

So is a sprocket the same as a cog?

Technically, a cog or gear has teeth designed to mesh with the teeth of another gear, or at least something else with teeth. A sprocket has teeth designed to mesh with a chain, or something perforated.

But sprockets often get called cogs or gears, and on a bicycles the front sprockets get called chain-rings and the other terms reserved for the rear sprockets.

Thanks Fiddy for the hospitality, and thanks Pip for the Stroh - it was (and continues to be) an experience.

Has anyone noticed whether the increased busyness of bus lanes has had any effect on the number of cars turning left across them without looking?

I was tentatively in favour of sharing bus lanes with motorbikes, partly on that basis, but I haven't had enough experience of them since the change to form an opinion.

I've gone for both options in the past.

Me too. I emailed OS when they sent me two sets of the maps i'd ordered, and posted the extra back to them, but kept the extra copy of a CD i'd got from another place (both copies in the same package - someone was having an off day). The only option i'd never pick is exploit their mistake by new fraud.

I've bought a litre of this for all my leather needs. Smells like dead cows feet, but works a treat.
£3.30 a pint.
http://www.cheappetproducts.net/77650_NEATSFOOT_OIL_PURE__PT_12-UKP113935.html

Hasn't done my Storika any harm. Can't speak for brooks though

Yes, but the Storika seems to consist of small leather panels stretched tight in all directions over a chassis made from something else, where as Brooks saddles are stretched only lengthways and rely on the stiffness of the leather to retain a comfortable shape.

neatsfoot will only soften leather if you really soak it many times, because it dries !

I know you can ruin a Brooks with a single application of neatsfoot oil because i've done it. I did it many years ago, but i've just dug that saddle out of the box of old bits it was living in, and while not exactly floppy, it is still flexing in ways it shouldn't (the sides flap out when you put any weight on it, and tightening doesn't seem to help).

neatsfoot oil from any saddleshop, perfect for all kinds of saddles, and not expensive, much,much cheaper than proofhide. will slightly darken light leather.

Noooooo. Brooks saddles rely on the stiffness of the leather to retain their shape and function. Neatsfoot oil will make them soft and saggy and basically ruin them.

Have you heard of the trick of marking recently created bits of the forums 'no robots' to give us time to report spam before any of the forum's google juice spreads to the spam links? I'm not sure it significantly discourages spammers, but it might marginally reduce the benefit they get from doing it.

I wasn't expecting scientific testing, just wondering if through using or dismantling* your pump you'd noticed any features that could be the basis for such claims.

• I can't be the only one who obsessively dismantles most of the things i own can i?
  

my favourite type of rocket:

I've got a medium Lezyne Pressure Drive: it's very reassuring looking! I've only used it a couple of times but it was pretty quick (and I'm a weakling!)

Lezyne make some vague claims about their pumps, e.g. "20% more pumping power than most frame pumps" for the 'road drive', and "inflates to riding pressure quicker with 30% fewer strokes than conventional pumps" for the 'pressure drive'. Can anyone who actually has one shed light on the basis for these claims? From the little I can find out online they look like very shiny but otherwise completely conventional single-acting pumps.

edit:
I feel this thread needs a link to the mini-pumps thread. The second page has one of GA2G's lists.

I will courier anything less than 1kg from my office to my house for £300.
Discounts for multiple items (up to a maximum of 2).

How radioactive is it allowed to be?

Has anyone else noticed some of those sensors that tell you to slow down are super-sensitive? Ive had one tell me to slow down when I was in a 30 zone, I was doing 20. Even checked behind me thinking there was no way it could be me who had set it off but the road was blissfully empty!

It could be their radar is getting a reading from your spokes, which near the top of your wheel will be moving almost twice as fast as you are.

The worst of the "oh shit" moments that afternoon was when a woman pulled alongside me whilst I was in the right hand lane waiting to pull onto a roundabout, to turn right (naturally). I pull away, as does the car to my left, as does the car that has shoved its bonnet against my elbow, fast. The gap between the cars closed to a gap significantly smaller than me. Fortunately I saw it coming and backed off so I was behind both cars by this point, otherwise could have been hairy!

Nice anticipation. You might have sat further out in your lane, stopping the second car from overtaking you (riding in primary position - cyclecraft), but there seem to be some drivers it's just better to get out of the way of.

Epping forest is not too far away.

I agree that bacon sandwiches can only be made with white bread, but my dads breakfast just wouldn't be right with anything but good dense wholemeal bread. I also accept that beans and sausages are a key part of the traditional fried breakfast (and i do enjoy them, even though they feel wrong).

The bananas are definitely not for every day, but warm and sticky on the inside, sweet caramelised and almost crunchy on the outside, they go really well with a fork-full of egg and bacon.