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not without taking pictures to demonstrate!

See how a standard innertube is packaged in it's box for a guide to how you want your tub to look when folded.

what about using the canal paths where possible?

I got from new street to castle vale mostly along the canal last week.. Saw a few cyclists heading in to work on reasonable quality hybrids too.

i'm signed up for px newsletters from previous dealings with them, does that mean i'll start getting your offers and codes through craignasty? Maybe a numpty q but i can't tell if you're setting up a seperate list for fixed folk? Ta.

yeah aim uses that track on his Fabriclive 17 set...which i love. its got me into loads of artists:

tony D
InI
scott lark
Ed o.g and da bulldog
fingathing

Andy Turner is a genius.

Cold Water Music was a life changer for me. Fookin great album - Demonique played with the lights off still spooks me! That's one of the better fabriclives too.

Currently listening to Dub-FX - saw him busking in Bristol last weekend. Quality.

p.s. All cola soaking done at you own risk though ;)

coca cola never damaged steel or nowadays alu cans that it's sold in. It'll affect/effect (one for the grammar'tards to sort out) the corrosion though.

Coca cola. That shit dissolves everything - i was told to use it to budge seized BB from alu frame.

Failing that the sawing approach platini mentions is workable.

it's a risk you gotta take. hey, i'm taking a risk too, i mean you're a ginge FFS.

Admittedly your risk is a bigger one to take. You might catch gingavitis... I'll probably accept once an oldie explains to me what it means to be friends on here - i can't be arsed to search for the info.

could not agree more. lets be friends.

Hmm... we've only just met though - I don't usually friend on a first thread. How do I know you won't just befriend me tonight then ignore me in the morning just like all those other Forum Oldies?

You're boring me.

Good. I might encourage you to go somewhere else then.

You'll never be a Torpid Construct, or even a Wapping Warrior.

I'll never be something I don't wannabe [sic]? Oh well...

Firefox has built-in spell checking.. it ain't hard. I'm not being nazi about it but logic dictates if we can't decipher someone's post, they're gonna get less help.

A spelling mistake won't stop you deciphering someone's post. Maybe the forum Oldies need to re-draw the distinction between a post with a couple of typos + psts wrtn wd txt spk.

Edit. P.s. I use FF, and I have the spell checker installed. Life's to short though. Really. It is. I don't Iron either - same reason.

1. They've joined the forum.. that's more like subscribing to a GPS download service than asking directions and it's free so expect some ads or shit or both.
   
2. They value our opinion but what of our time ho ho
   
3. No argument here, Chop.
   
4. Wrong, they are all humourless retards.. until we learn 'em good.
   
5. I just want to take this opportunity to say hi to my family back home.
   
6. Racist!
   
7. Give that man a cigar!
   
8. Some of us might be. hippy is a cunt though.
   
9. Fixie fixie fixie is fine but fixed gear/wheel is better. Never let crash tell you otherwise.
   
10. Old couriers don't die, they just get fa[s]s[s]tter.
    
11. I'm going to kill you.
    
12. No effort on your part = no effort on our part. You don't have to be shakespeare but this isn't a 13yo's mobile phone emporium either.
    
    

1. You give your time as you wish. If you don't want to give your time to such a topic don't click on the thread link that says "What Fixie - Plug or Steamroller?" or similar. Or if you do click it and don't want to answer, then don't.
   
2. Are you calling me a humourless retard?
   
3. Ok.
   
4. I only wish I'd posted this in "Bike's and Bits".
   
5. I hope that was deliberate. ;) P.s. Shakespeare. ;)
   

You're not wrong.

You are though... Earlier you wrote that you edited posts for comic effect? House of Commons style name calling is hardly that funny is it?

P.s. Knob jokes are much more my level - see if you can do better with another go.

P.p.s. I'm also Ginger. You can really go to town on that I bet. :P

As someone who often re-edits other people's posts for comic effect, I really need to find a more rewarding hobby.

Couldn't agree more!

Welcome to the LFGSS. It may not always seem like it but apparently the forum is actually a friendly place full of kind and helpful people - you may even be one of them. I am relatively new here myself and have pissed off almost everyone I've encountered, most often for spelling things wrong, so I've plagiarised this to help you get the most from your newbies and to stop you getting off on the wrong foot with them.

1. Newbies tend not to use the Search function. Although most technical questions will already have been asked and answered they're in unfamiliar ground. It's like they're asking for directions rather than buying a map.
   
2. Many start by asking "What kind of fixed/single speed bike should I get?". They value your opinion.
   
3. Some may make their first five posts the "I am only writing this to get to five posts" variety. They will be insulted and then banned. And rightly so.
   
4. Don't get upset if you get a bit of abuse. Take it as a joke, don't be defensive or offended. Newbies can give as good as they get - they're not all humourless retards.
   
5. Look at the Members List - if you like looking at lists.
   
6. Don't make your every post an expression of your prejudices.
   
7. Be funny. If you can't be funny then at least don't take yourself too seriously. A bit of self-mockery will help you no end.
   
8. Be yourself. For example, I am a complete Fixie novice and whilst other members don't know that they will learn, and one day be quite accepting.
   
9. Try not to react to the use of the word 'Fixie'. Newbies know it annoys you. If you don't react to it you'll save yourself the inevitable grief.
   
10. Never give advice if you're an ageing courier. (TBH I didn't, and still don't, get this one).
    
11. Try and appreciate the sections are like a guide to a Newbie and posts can sit anywhere yet still be relevant. ;)
    
12. Newbies can't spell. Newbies don't care. Have you tried composing a long note on an N series Nokia? Newbies have.
    
    

;)

Ha! Best response to forum pedantry I've seen yet.

:)

Hurrah indeed, bully for you.

Why should I give a fuck about my reputation as reported on by you? I'm amazed you had to resort to re-writing my post to make it easier for you to score intorweb points against me from it.

There's possible bonus grammar-pedant points available above if you're that keen to find them, my Bitch.

Cool, i've got my own presonal forum spellchecking Bitch. I don't even have to press f7, not that i ever did.

re: possible bent seatstay, have measured the width between the dropouts and it's 126mm which is what it should be, so the kink is design.

Should've measured before asking really! Ta.

Rule n+2: Platini is always right.

Rule n+3: Platini must always have the last word.

Rule n+4: Newbies who don't conform and follow rule 5 are Whingers.

Rule Brittania.

Rule n+1: Don't direct friendly banter towards Platini until friendship has been confirmed, in writing.

+1
If the hole in the seat tube goes into the top tube, then it is probably there to vent gases during the welding process.

As for the seatstay bend. Put a very true wheel in, and see if it lines up with the seat tube. If it does then all is well. Looks to me, to be part of the design though (something to do with gears and stuff).

Cool, will do. Ta.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6jwab3HWk

http://www.wuchess.com/

Platini, i never said i was a friend of yours, just that my banter was friendly in nature. There is a difference.

All understood though. I'll make sure any future banter towards yourself is distinctly unfriendly until i get your permission to be friendly.

FFS.

Awesome. Nice bike. Cheers.

No need for the sarcasm. I presume that you made your original post with a view to helping people who wanted to find out more. Your typo (let's be generous) hampered that.
I put that right. What's your problem with that? I'd like to know.

No problem with that at all, except your choice to interpret my friendly banter as sarcasm.

For the record, Google generally deals with poor spellers. It is designed to cater for the lowest common denominator (unfortunately as this perpetuates poor standards), and as such still comes up with the goods.

Go to: www.google.co.uk

Enter: ballentine city cycling

Click: I'm feeling lucky

Get: http://www.citycycling.co.uk/issue26/issue26page6.html

The world keeps turning.