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yeah that ant bike is a better design, to be honest i hadnt really considered how it would actually work, i just prefer a bolt system at the dropout to a big messy coupler. sure the SS coupler will work, but i like my bikes clean and minimal. a bolt design has got to be simpler/cheaper to produce as well.

i think the SS couplers are a bit of a messy solution, i much prefer the MTB style removable dropouts. i want a belt drive, but im yet to ride one. i really was a XC bike with a belt and hub gears.

oh man, whenever i see de-rosa bikes in the flesh, i get that "stairway denied" feeling.

ive never bothered to fix a puncture i just swap out the tube, whats the point when a new one is £3. i always have two strapped under my saddle, but ive never had to use them. i dont ride around london so dont have to deal with the road debris, but plenty of the country roads i ride are fucked up, yet i rarely get puctures. i weight 150lb's and use conti gp4000s.

i want one too, but i dont think itl be much use for touring. 3 gears that are wide apart is always going to leave you in completely the wrong cadance for the terrain. itl be great for everyday riding as imagine you just stay in the top gear (3rd gear-direct drive) for most of the time like a normal fixed, but then you have the smaller gears for backup when you hit an incline (2nd gear) or a hill (3rd gear). when you factor in the weight of touring equipment being in the right gear is more important.

from my limited experience of touring i found that antyhing that isnt quite right about your bike is really going to annoy you when your doing long miles day after day. ive doen it on fixed, but at the time i didnt know any better :)

fuck doing this by hand, do yourself a favour and get a buffing wheel as Lpg said. if you dont have a drill get a cheap rotary tool. you can get this whole jive for less than £20 and the whole job will only take an hour max.

im really quite into belt drives, i want one badly and my next fixed (itl be a while) will definatly be one.

however i really dont like that bike. i dont like geekhouse frames, somthing about the geometry just doesnt appeal to my aesthetics, and i still dont like those fugly forks.

the sugino crank looks crap with the belt guards on it. the bars while jazzy, id hate to ride with them, surely the tops are all but useless due to thier depth and i like the tops for climbing.

i dont see that the QR is a problem for the reason scott stated. do the belt drive sprokets fit standard hubs, or do they have thier own proprietary hub that only come with QR's?

dont want to be negative but i dont think you should convert that. yes you can make is FG/SS, but its never going to be a zippy fast bike as its designed for touring. keep it geared and find an old racer to convert if you must.

i did some lightweight fixed touring and thought it was fine, but now ive had my geared bike for a while i think youd have to mad. i love riding with one gear, but not when you trying to cover lots of distance across country when your hauling a bunch of weight.

its not Osgood-Schlatter, i had that when i was about 11 doing lots of cross country running and growing like mad.

the lumps have gone down a bit today but heyre still there. im having a day off the bike today for a change as im feeling shagged by riding lots everyday.

im gonna play with my saddle position and see if that has any effect. ive only started getting it from riding my geared bike, so i think it might have something to do with spinning alot more than i would have on my fixed. it might well be some kind of muscle development, but im concerned it might not be.

i know forums arnt the best place for medical advice, but unless the problem persists or gets worse i canne be bothered to go the doctors. anecdotal advice is still useful, especially as my GP is unlikely to be a bike rider.

oh jesus that Motta is nice, i even want it with those silly bars and rear disk.

ive been riding alot for the last couple of weeks, both geared and fixed. i noticed today that i have some odd lumps on my kneecaps. they arnt very painful, but i can feel that theyre there.

they are on the top inside of both kneecaps, and roughly cover the area of a pokerchip :)

they dont hurt very much at the moment but im concerned it could become worse. ive done a search but couldnt find anything that related to big ol lumps on kneecaps.

anyone experience anything similar? is it my knees just HTFU, or a problem that needs to be addressed, be it bike fit, technique ect

ive used the touch up paint pens from halfords. they have held up fine so far after 2 years of almost daily riding in all weather. the pens come with two tips, a fine one like a pen nib, and brush like nail varnish.

i used the brush to do mine, and the pen nib to tighten up the edges. i also used a tightly folded piece of kitchen towl dipped in white spirit to correct mistakes. i did one application of the whole bike in a couple of hours and rode it the same day.

i couldnt comment on whever it would damage your powder coat or not, but it worked great for me.

whats going on there with the bars on the neil orrel above? are they aero bars?

i have QR's and it holds fine as long as you do it up really tight. its done up so tight i have to put my body weight on it to close it. on my old wheels i had slightly lower quality skewers, which held fine until i started doing bunny hops and such, but this was solved by using a chaintug.

id get a new skewer, and a chaintug to be safe. having a chaintug makes getting the wheel position right easier when using QR's.

dont ever ride wearing flip flops or barefoot. the only time i did it this happened:

i think the problem is that this isnt an auction site, or a place to sell stuff to make money. its a place for bike geeks to talk shit about stuff. the classified section really is for people to pass on stuff they dont want/need to other fellow enthusiasts for whats its worth, not to make profit. if you want profit sell it on ebay.

it doesnt help that the members here know how to do all the stuff you did in the "conversion". why would we pay more for a conversion when we could just do it ourselfs?

i dont mean to be an arse, but why would you want a bmx stem? is it just for looks or does it have any practical purpose? they all look too short to be comfortable on a track geometry frame, but i can see that maybe barspins are easier.

the only good thing about clips+straps is that you dont have to carry spare shoes. otherwise clipless is better for everything.

for recreational cycling i ride my geared with clipless, and flip-flops in my jersey pockets. for commuting i ride my fixed with straps so i dont have to take spare shoes. carrying less stuff is prefrable for commuting.

im a fan of my topeak, easily gets to full pressure, its a shame it doesnt have a pressure guage though.

a guy in waterloo evans recommened it to my bro and i ended up getting one as well. aparently he had a sick titanium fixed.

bit of a silly question, but do the garmin units give you alternative directions to get you back on route if you take a wrong turn?

ive always been a directions written on my arm with permenant pen kinda guy, but alot of the time i just remember landmarks from google earth research. this isnt always the best idea, and ive got lost hundreds of times along miles of hedged roads in penzance. it all the looks the bloody same round there!

im quite peeved that 02 arnt offering an affordable upgrade service to the S.

i also dont like that you have to pay for tethering, but i can understand why. luckily i dont have a laptop so i cant get myself into any trouble.

is there any history/reasoning behind the card suits and italien manufacturers?

im a tuck the u-lock under my belt kinda guy. for those that use fabric horses and the alike, what advantage does that have over my current practise?

woah, that moser is nice! great details, and for that price you got a steal. even though i just got a good modern geared im craving some classic steel

love that FES, what on earth is the GI of that thing? the skinny forks kinda look wierd with the fat tubed body but i love it.