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I happen to really enjoy bikes, is that a crime or could there be a little hint of jealousy - understood?
Not really jealousy, just boredom...and 'use the fucking search' syndrome ...
hey, if you are really into bikes...thats great, though why oh why in all damned hell are you tossing such gems of 'wisdom' around...it's sort of obvious you have a brain as you sell software to dorks...on the other hand...admit it...you are not 'into' bikes, you like to look at them....tell us you are a complete noob when it comes to two wheels...
as a standard answer...just get deep 'v's...everyone else in the world without a speck of imagination has some.
If you are clever enough to get someone pregnant...and have a 9 month old baby...then next time he wakes you up in the middle of the night...peruse the mavic and phil woods catalogues that you picked up, you can discuss all the options with him as he settles down. When baby sitting for my sister I found that they will listen to anything as long as you read it to them correctly.
you can then buy some ludicrously expensive kit and have someone build your wheels for you....then if the world doesn't end in three years...you can give it to your son unridden for his 18th...
Everyone is happy.
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Thats bad luck...however it seems more like just bad technique,
as a child...My dad always told me to check the inside of the tyre for grit and thorns, then when putting it back on fit the tyre near the valve first(as there is more 'room'), and then check for 'pinches', as he had been a motocyclist and having to take one of those mofo's off by the side of the road was a f*cksite more tricky than doing a bicycle one.
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Hi, I have a couple of ladies bikes,
I have just pmed you.
one a dawes in metallic light blue that is really nice, I have another mixte raliegh that is burgundy.
if you're interested give me a shout, I'm reasonably close as I am in hackney wick.
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You are as wrong as being born a hermaphrodite...... .....obviously copyright theft is more important than being a hermo-phobic facist nazi... But we'll leave it there.
fixamatosis.....
Win on the bike situation...
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I've never heard purple refered to as patronising before?...........gash bike
she means that it's a ladies bike...so lo and behold it has to be either purple or pink...
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Did they dress you like a girl??? Did they make you play with fucking dolls?!?
hey...wtf...they stopped me doing shit like that and made me dress like a cowboy?...
a dress over chaps and pistols any day...well...depends what day...
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4) Shimano UN54 107mm x 68mm BB, is used but ace condition. 10 GBP
dibs please.
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...........expecting every Met copper to look for your bike because "it's the only Bert Scroggins track frame sprayed metallic purple in the whole of London" is actually a bit much. To most police, a bike is just a bike.........
...this is the case with cars mostly as well, you report and they generally wait for someone to find it.
you have to think of the lebowksi scene with cheech as the officer lebowski says..''you have any leads? and the officer laughs his head off...
Agreed with mostly every thing you said...and tynan too...though if you wanna where a hat..it should be your option as to whether you do, we base these reactions to the amount of people killing people because they are smoking, texting, late, pissed off...or just not paying fucking attention in a 1200kg piece of metal with inertia problems...
though another factor in helmet use is probably that they are sold with new bikes from halfords? and also madam...would you like to see these new shiny helmets? (see other post by mitretester) they are far more likely to be had/bought by an inexperienced rider...rather than someone that has been riding for 10 years...and is a really quite skilled and road aware?
if you asked me if I wanted a new helmet...I would say no initially, as I have been riding for god knows how long...and like to live vicariously.
secondly places that did have less cars (...ie india and thailand spring to mind) had never had traffic gridlock problems until recently...they just had thousands of bikes deilvering everything conceivable at a reasonable pace and everyone had to be a little more considerate, to move, to think a little more, take another route, go on the pavement for little while, cut through the housing estate, walk a staircase, knowing that if you do crash and it is/isn't your fault you will still likely fuck up your head/elbow/ankle/pretty arse and they generallty take on a little forward thinking and responsibility...you stick someone in a seat with a heater, music, a box of fags, a phone, some sweets, and they will fucking sit there til the cows come home rather than eleviate the problem/boredom.
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*you could also buy a Create if your were on a budget (199) but they look pretty horrendous to my mind
I am a newbie here too...(though not to building bikes) but would never suggest to anyone that they buy a potentially murderous bike to anyone. It's just terrible advice, if he's a big guy...he will kill it or it will kill him within a hour/day/week?
He said he was looking for help...? how is that helpful? It's huuge fail and very bad advice.
Ride the mountain bike, leave it in a reasonably hard gear i.e one that makes you push a little and sweat a bit more, sit back for a couple of weeks whilst reading this damned forum more that the metro, and buy something that isn't made of cheese...
there have been a couple of decent bikes in here that have been built by competent forum peeps for the £250 mark...within the last month, and would be infinitely better than the unipack/create/angelfire option(whilst only coughing up another £60, which you would cough up on the unibomber within the first week?) Also those angel fire look ok...but are shit. anyone that paints a bike in a pretty colour that cannot mask off any of the bearing cups properly needs a kick in the arse.
good luck.
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meanwhile ladies, continue with private pleasures..
Robert Downey Jr is hot, bike or not (he could be standing next to/sitting on a chest of drawers) ...and the two guys at the bottom (especially the one on the right) are as fit, bike or not...however...the fact that they *are *on bikes isn't a bad thing? is it? as it would suggest that they are extremely healthy, have talent, passion...and have good balance. Ahem.
I get what people are saying about the 'base' notes of a fourm and does it have to be brought down to a Sun newspaper readership level...However by and large this forum is rather highbrow...so it's an evenn balance really...
though as for cock shots in lycra...fail...It's a bit of a specialist subject...can we just have a few more fit guys (on bikes optional) please..
though what were you thinking when posting guy number two? Man in a suit..standing next to a bike? meh!?...*just read that he may be your boyfriend...enjoy your cup of tea anyway you like it..;D...
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she's a skag head. she looks like she'd kill an old lady for her giro.
whatever she is on...it's not skag...her pupils would be pinned..(tiny) and she would not have such terrible red eye...
tense jaw muscles and huge pupils...is yer mom and yer dad....
though she might kill an old lady for her hairdid...
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Hey,
do you still have the chainring?
Cheers
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Hi Hilary, I have sent you a pm regarding the veloce cranks...Many thanks.
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a friend bought one and he should have known betterer, though when he came home with it I rolled my eyes...
If you change anything first change the goddamned brake cables ok? He had to stop hard...and low and behold, the nipples broke ...at once....and he had to bail.
People can try to defend them but hey, why defend that shit? I'm not a snob, I don't mind cheap, if cheap isn't bloody dangerous, and they are hugely dangerous, and if you do anything other than 'tootle' about on them then they are death traps.
please be careful.
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It would be easier to cut off the chainring, or take off the whole crank. And which thief would ever do that?
As its a theoretical solution, I also can't give figures for how much or little vibration, movement is required to trigger the alarm. I'd be happy to simply reset it, if I was in a pub having a drink, and it went off.
Just so you know there were some very resourceful wankers around richmond about a year ago...he lived in hackney and was doing a job there for about 3 weeks.
that after they had seen my friends fixed mtb with kona project2's and hope discs...all in all a pretty hybrid thing,
with pitlocks etc and even so paranoid as to araldite in the heads of the allen bolts...on the stem, brake calliper bolts, and pretty much anywhere else...
still stole the front of his bike...
they had somehow...undone his head set, stem, bearings and forks...etc...and unlaced all of this in a 6 hour period. which would be easy, if you were in a workshop or your front room...this was in a street in the door way of some 3 storey town houses, locked up snug to a railing., between 3 and 9 in the morning...the time limit wasn't astounding, the audacity, stealth, temerity, and abilty was.
how, well...we still really don't know how, ...it was all really tight a fit with the hose from the brake disc being wound through the frame, it would have been a fucking nightmare to steal...let alone remove the stem, the brakes, the forks and so on.
we figured they may have got the araldite out the maybe hammer the fork out of the frame...but then...there was so much bloody faffing to be had...we thought it too annoying to steal, it was anally retentive theft proof...
and they still stole the front of his bike, and left him the front cups, that was it, everything else was gone. including his thomson stem, hope disc brake, nice bars, grips, forks, rotor, and mavic wheel and hub.
so just be aware...if you don't have to leave it anywhere for a long, i.e. more than long enough to take something apart...
try not too, some of these people are really, really good at nicking shit.
andin response to things that you lock too being taken apart, outside the galleries near bistrotheque on wadeson street in bethnal green, are some key lock railings, it is a known fact that these are regularly taken apart to steal bikes, best haul was last december 6 bikes in one hit...locks and chains taken too...including my bike that my mate had borrowed (I would never have locked it to them...=[...
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hhhmm....
that top tube has a fairly bad angle on it...is/are the front wheel/forks correct??....=P...
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''Mr Darcy, may I interject? I have a habit of sounding ...elitist? When, I am only trying to report faithfully upon the subject in question.''
''Of course Ms Bennett'' added Darcy protectively.
''The chrome on the lugs seems to be of the amorous small horse variety (ie fucking pony). I must add that if you can see the polishing marks in chrome, it means that overall the production has been cheap, cheap, cheap...''
''Yes, Ms Bennett...'' continued Darcy carefully, aware of mocking her contrafibularities, ''not enough time or effort was spent polishing the components between each layer of production..ie the steel, the copper, and the chrome. The chrome should look like crisp cold liquid, it should look as though it was applied by Mercury himself, its finish be perfectly smooth, though not to bulbous at the edges (which would also imply a hasty polishing) Even in this poor detail it is easy to see...''
Ms. Bennett agreed with Darcy further, hesitantly looking with pang of guilt toward the tired metal worker...''Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, phrasmotic, even comspunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation....'' though paried with effort, ''as an aside, the lugs themselves look heavy and ill worked, as though a man with a file (though with little talent and poor eye sight, she added) has been locked in a room and asked to find something new to copy then sell...after all, it isn't about the specific operation of the parts in question, however, more so the intention and skill with which they were made. If one has to be assured of somethings quality, and cannot see it for ones self, then one should avoid the haberdashers altogether and send the Seamstress.
Quality of manufacture has little to do with fixed gear cycling, moreover so the components used within each project...a cheap suit is still a cheap suit...which ever buttons you may apply to the exterior.
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Ha great post! do you want to buy the forks? are you trying some sick reverse psychology?
ahh, 'fraid not...I just hate slope shouldered forks...
now..
go and flirt with your dad for that hub...
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that was a proper steal!!
if your dad gives you a hard time show him the screen and all the love and kudos you got in here with your entreprenuerial skills...make him admit you are a hero...
and then drop on him you've already sold the wheels at a profit...to someone in here...and admit that your even more of a 'little' alan sugar..(no not a wanker)
bat your lashes and get him to buy your new hub...maybe if you're a boy you can drop the eyelash batting routine...
obviously this is all bullshit if the £50 was going towards your nans hip replacement/dad's new toupe fund or 'something'...
oh and use the old black forks....those chrome ones are fugly...
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without stating the obvious....
You do what you did when you were messing around on bikes as a 'youth'...
You put your feet in the wheel, you put your feet on the floor, or steer it into something...or you ditch the mofo and cope with breaking your wrist/bike and not your neck...
You should ideally have two methods of braking on a cycle, it's ok if you are tooling around however if you actually cycle with a little passion ..ie fast...then hey...those brakes are essential...thats why those guys on the big races like the 'tour' and 'stuff' swear by them...also...unless your chain is really old, fucked, cheapcheap, rusty, made of cheese...or all of those...they rarely break.
typed with a medium slice of WTF?
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Dont think thats a unipack. Poor looking components though.
If you want something speedy. This quality alu frame with carbon fork is a good offer.
http://www.cyclebasket.com/products.php?plid=m4b1s213p628Or some steel
http://www.alienbikes.com/gear.phpTheres so much out there you really need to narraw your search.
They are /It is a unipack...or very close...
A guy I know bought one and it is shite after all...it's just a bit better finished...ie 'shiny'...the crank, the wheels, the bottom bracket, the 'everything else...'
is still just cheapo cheapo 'moon cheese' shite...
Advice...
1)Read loads of threads in here about nice bikes...(see bike porn thread) and why everyone agrees 'why' they are nice, then loads of threads about 'nice' parts, and then loads of threads about how to put it together.
2)When searching/spotting for a frame...Look at the clearances, on anything other than 'shite' it will have a small clearance ie the gap between the wheels and the frame...if there are no wheels in said frame...It should look 'pointy' or spiky...and not 'long'...This helps it turn quicker, is stiffer so that it transfers your leg power to the road, and looks 'cool'. When you have looked for all this 'stuff' on loads of bikes that you don't buy...ie.you just perve...then you can find one that gives you a thrill...it is then you look for .....
3)Quality. look on here and ebay and find out what a 'good' price is for 'stuff'...ie...a reasonable clean set of mavic rims on 'not bad' hubs...£30-£70...see what I'm getting at there?this should take you about 3-4weeks of swotting...upto maybe an hour a day....some times upto 4...jesu christos...
then build a bike...
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really...I get a link off it...just checked...I did...but now I don't...
meh...ok ..hang on.
thats the holdsworth...it's quite nice...and looks like it has a campy rear mech...
and thats the vitus....
he has another dave quinn vitus frame thats needing a little love but it's pretty...
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Ramon,
I sort of get where you are coming from, a good working knowledge of 'not getting your ass kicked' mixed with a little 'fuck it before it fucks you' are useful skills to learn.
However, bringing it up in a thread that details someone getting smashed off there fricking bike from behind whilst cycling home, is in really poor taste.
No matter if he was Bruce Lee, if someone smashes you from behind whilst you're clipped into a bike frame at speed and you go down with it, the bike and its momentum will fuck you up, not the punch that caused it. And you as a 'master' of bullshit should know that.