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You don't get hipsters in Cheltenham, so I look at bikes with more innocent eyes. Black rims and spokes, and black tyres and the colours would look good. I would add at least one, possibly two brakes too

I like it apart from the rims. Black and it would be sorted

Big old helmet thread in the bike and bits

probably a repost...nice and clean though.

Me want me want

If you frenchify the BAAD as BHAD (they call rum rhum, honest injun) and anglify the ASSS to ARSE it would work

Yeah call him a cunt at the base of L'Alp D'Huez and watch him fly up

Anyone got one going spare? Preferably black Sugino Messenger (which is what they're replacing) but anything in black/chrome/white would be ok, to fit Sugino Messenger cranks

Ta!

Actually the buzz you get from an argument means you can really put the hammer down afterwards

I don't know you mate but it good to know you're on the mend.

Long may you roll

Pa?

Approaching a roundabout, after an appropriate glance over my shoulder, I moved from the gutter and accross to the right hand lane. There's a horn behind me and I turn around and tell the car to fuck off, he's there with the window open saying cyclists are a menance, I'm like, I'm on a bike, you're in a car, who's the fucking menance? This is my road too. As this goes on as we're side by side going around the roundabout. Fuck knows what the cars behind made of it. I told him he was a twat then accelerated in front to get back over to the left to exit. We argued again at the traffic lights further on

Or like the car driver that pulled out without looking forced me onto the wrong side of the road, and after a threw a hand up over-took me, then slowed and cut me off as he pulled in again forcing me to slow and swerve back onto the right, to ask me what the fuck was my problem. 'You almost killed me' was my reply.

Or the driver that reversed out of a line of park cars without looking and I almost ploughed into, having to swerve onto the pavement

Maybe I do make mistakes riding my bike, but I can't remember any times where I've almost caused physical injury to other road users. And when I do seek solace on the pavement or path I get shouted at by pedestrians. We are neither fish nor flesh: the road belongs to the cars, the pavement people. We get the gutter (cycle lanes round here are a joke). Despite coming before the car we are now the after-thought, an inconvienience, hated by both walker and driver. So we hate them back. Wankers

Phew, needed that, ta

I've been car free for about 3 years and been walking or cycling to work instead. That's going to change if I get a job I'm going for in Brizzle. Gonna have to buy a motor and spend about 2 hours a day in it. Sucky

They did, except Clarkson being Clarkson he went up the Thames in a motor boat.

And still came second to Hammond on his bike. The stig went by bus/tube and May went by car. Think May was last

Cheltenham, and now the mud on the hills has forced me onto the tarmac got myself a fixed-wheel. Hadn't seen any others on the road until the other day, but I was in the car and couldn't have a chat

gonna try 44:16 then, gives me a mid-70s and I'll see how I roll

I wear an earlier version of these, about the least fugly of the Giro helmets. A compromise between the pisspot and roadie/xc lid, well-vented. There's also the Giro Hex

I have a massive bonce, and the Giro is about the only one that has fitted comfortably

Reserrecting this thread for some aid: first few rides on a fixed and thinking I need a bigger gear. I'm on a 42:16 which is about 70" but feeling I can't put the hammer down as much as I like and it feels a bit spinney. Don't think I need to increase massively, but a bit bigger I think is needed (particularly for the downhills: I live in Cheltenham). Do I need to change both cogs? Or maybe just the front one to 44/46?

There's no point climbing to the top of that if you don't get to roll down the other side!

Would be impressive training for the alps in Londres.

Flip-flop wheel for the descent?

Carbon rims and forks, yet a brick of a stem (24/7 yes? I have the same on a jump bike) and prison bars. Fashion gone mad IMO

The ones I use

Anyone use 5 10 Rubber and flats? Use this on my MTB. The 5 10 Shoes use the same sticky rubber as rock-climbing, and matched with a good flat pedal (DMR V12s and Terror pins) you get insane amounts of grips with spuds or owt. Gonna be trying this on my Charge

Downhillers do use this combo and have won World Cup races

Thanks, that's all as clear as mud

(although generally it seems to be some track bike chic. Fair dos)

If there is a practical reason for this, or whether its just an aesthetic thing? Not havng yet a huge grasp on the track bike thang, I'm aware of solid rear wheels on TT/Track bikes with more conventional wheels upfront, but I'm seeing bikes with deep rims at back/front with something completely different up front, carbon wheels at the back, carbon (aerospoke right?) at the front etc

Some one give me an in into the wonderful world of wheel selection on a fixie

(and I even managed some alliteration)