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Recieved the wheels i bought off ebay today:

and unfortunately the front rim has quite a lot of wear to the braking surface. As i only run a front brake im considering switching the rims to put the one with the wear on the back.
Whats people thoughts on how safe this'd be? The braking surface is noticeably concave. :S

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Its coincidental whether they are a cool wheel, how strong they are, how expensive they are because they just aint available anywhere and i.d. are being cunts and keep changin the stock due date.
They may well be the wheel of summer '09 coz its probably gonna take that long to get hold of them.

What kind of tensioner do you have?

Slack chain, and front tyre.

Your talking about forward facing horizontal dropouts right? If so then what difference does it make what is behind the axle/nut? Sure you don't just need to htfu and tighten it up properly?

As the title says, really, thats all I'm after, cheap and quick as possible.

If I want a camera, snowboard bag or wireless router or any other none bike related crap, I will got to ebay/relevant forum/shop to get it.

Please look at the name at the top of the forum and think, is it appropriate to sell my sh*t here before you make the post... PLEASE

You must be using that new internet browser that forces you to look at threads you have no interest in.
Wank.

My order got delayed again, so I've canceled it. Guess I really should look at building a semi decent one from scratch.

Surprise surprise, just checked the i.d. site, they are now saying 12th of nov for stock.

Oh god this thread has brought me out in a cold sweat. Poor you DixonB. I have nothing but sympathy.

Have you thought about contacting the police with regards to your neighbours? Surely, if someone has accepted your parcel, this is theft?

I think that if you are sent something by mistake ie theres two of something in the parcel instead of the one that you ordered/paid for or theres a lens in with your dslr that you never ordered/paid for then its the company-that-sent-you-it's responsibility to realise, inform you and have it collected. You have no obligation to own up to having received something that you weren't meant to.
Probably a similar situation here. Unless the delivery driver asked the person "are you joe bloggs and is this flat number 1a" and the person lied and said yes thaen i can't see that they would be guilty of anything.
Anyway, there'd never be enough evidence to convict someone of theft.
It does suck though that someone would do this.
Look out for it being moved. If one of you neighbours did get it then i doubt they would be stupid enough to build it and ride it themselves but they might sell it on ebay/get a junky mate to come round n take it away in exchange for sum crystal meth.

Is it the bike or the rider thats anti porn?

Couldnt you and the other residents chip in for some kind of lock system for the shutter such that if sum thieving cunts do sneak in they will be unable to raise the shutter and be trapped there until you and your neighbour can go down with a blow torch and pair of pliers.

Happen to me with my camera, some prick signed the delivery and kept the camera to themselves (This was DHL), I think really it doesn't matter what courier company it is, there's always some prick screwing it up.

DHL are fucking morons. They had a phone of mine to deliver and i missed them the 1st time and then i rang them to arrange to collect it the next day, when i got to the depot the parcel was in a van and another attempt was being made to deliver it at my house where noone was in. I used the website to track it and for 3 days i watched it being "transferred to delivery vehicle" or sumthing similar in the morning, i then waited in for it to be delivered only to see it "transfered to depot" at about 4pm. And they wouldn't let me come collect it because it was "scheduled for delivery".
Wankers.

Yeah i guess its really gonna be down to Mercian and what kind of small print/disclaimer they have but id reckon that they should have some sort of insurance for this kind of thing or be sending enough large parcels out to have a bit of bargaining power with Parcel Farce at least.

Get Mercian to embelish the value of the frame on the proviso that you buy a frame from them with the compensation you'd better be getting from parcel farce.

Yeah bikes don,t bark or shit, get it inside the flat.

nice mustache

Maybe its an ironic one, everyone is wearing them these days.

Just popped into bicycle repair shop on the cut and saw these halo track hubs, flippy floppy. In the hand quite nice...
32h...£85

linky...
http://www.halorims.com/HaloNew/hotproducts.html

picky...(taken on my phone)

Left thread looks fucked.

I was really into getting a rear aerorage when the i.d. site said mid september for stock. Quite into it when it said end of sep. Not so into it when it said mid oct. Now that it says end of oct iv bought myself a set of really nice wheels off ebay for less than the cost of the rear aerorage.
Pandering to a market is fine and good but you wanna ensure your supply chain is upto scratch first.
By the time these are actually available everyone will have forgotten about them.

http://chargebikes.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/10/dsc_12022.jpg

sorry for not resizing

She actually looks real, not just a girl used as a marketing ploy.

Back to business... Just spotted this on Prolly's blog... The AZONIC Zero Stem... Me fucking likey! Apols for the big pic, but you need one to see it properly...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2026/2934961816_66f1d1d31d_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2934962890_6bfa844746.jpg?v=0

why not just get the DNA saucer from billys £10

Some dafty on ebay musta seen this and presumed he could flog his £10 stem at mahoosive profit:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fishbone-Straight-Up-Flatland-Stem-New_W0QQitemZ380073330471QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item380073330471&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

And i will say it myself,

SLACK CHAIN

the wheel was just on there to see how the bike looked, wasnt tightened up.

I want to get a bit of colour about my bike but not sure how.
Currently looks like this:

other than that the Brooks has made way for a more bum friendly bmx saddle in white and the plain black rear tyre has been changed for one the same as the front.

Iv got new wheels on the way:

And as the finish on the pedals is fucked i was gonna order some Odyssey Twisteds (i ride freewheel flat pedal). Not sure what colour of pedals to get, i was going to get the green ones and have some parts coated a similar colour but im not really feeling having bits here n there a colour so might just order the white or clear ones instead.

Frames barely 2 months old so not wanting to shell out on getting it powder coated yet.

Any ideas people?

One idea i had was to do a fade, spray the front of the frame bright green or pink and fade it away.
Or maybe get hold of as many stickers as possible and plaster the front of it kind of like the toptube on my other bike:

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wouldn't like to ride it!!

Thats ott surely? I couldn't trust it.

Just for velodromes as it only goes left?

que?

I used the band that holds a road bike brake lever on, just bent it into the right shape.