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are you talking to yourself now? you're taking this hard, aren't you?

hippy is alway so negative. someone send him flowers.

I wonder if i need the wide ones. the buckle is already at full extension because my feet are big/tall at the bridge. The very vague achy sensation is coming from my two smallest toes on the left foot.

What do you reckon about braking in Murtle? Obviously i don't want to HTFU and then later, once they're un-returnable, find that they aren't right.

thats sounds small man. Mine aren't even close to that. This is not the impression I had from your original post. i would send back for a size up/wider.

Mine are cranked down all the way, and i never ever have any kind of toe crunch. Mine go from snug and stretch to slightly too big. I was thinking yours would go from slightly too snug, and stretch to perfect. thats not my impression anymore.

as nice as Pins are, i always hate the curvy fork.

that bianchi can go left or right. looking forward to seeing it built. certainly a mean looking frame.

that i can't say. I've got nothign to compare it to. I can tell you there is some reversible stretch. i'll bet a dime that they break in over time as well.

edit-- maybe this phrasing helps: they stretch more than any other shoe I've had the pleasure of riding in. to the point that it annoys me.

my sidis stretch a lot, toe box included. I have to tighten them at least once during a 50 mile ride. If they aren't blatantly small, I wouldn't worry about it.

We just got a really nice 3Rensho TT. Check the brake behind the BB.

that doesn't look set up correctly. Seems to be missing some housing.

this forum has surprised me before, though.

i just don't like the way a bike rides when hands are postured "down and out", wide apart, and swept behind the steerer. beautiful bike though. really well put together. fenders are perfect. colors are perfect.

Oh that is Skully's beaut, now that is defintely porn.

I agree about everything, but those bars.

something about aero wheels just turns me off.

...most likely it's that i can't shell out for em

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I've noticed 'chain stretch' on all the chains I've used. Granted these have all been at the cheaper end of the scale: izumi, sram and KMC. Not so long ago I had to find a magic gear for my first vertical dropped frame and used a fresh(and cheap)! KMC. STretched half an inch in about a week. I then switched to a chain about two years old (sram + pre-stressed) that has the same number of links but is about a sixth inch shorter and has done me well since.

Chains stretch!

I've had similar mysrterious break-in periods with some chains. I just don't talk about it. it's a dead horse though right?

here come some half-assed jokes.

Christ, is that just to protect the chainstay from chain slap? faints

I'm think that I might put my name down in a couple of years, get one when I'm 40.

all legitimate touring bikes have spare spokes somewhere on the frame. I guess he's using his for chain slap as well. pretty clever.

Vanilla are beautiful, but i think they are kind of over the top. My heart belongs to ANT cycles.

wow some nice bikes up there.

the turquoise bike up top is really ass ugly. It's a relatively nice frame under the paint, but thats about all it has going for it. I mean could it be trying any harder? Looks like an 18 y/o girl with no future.

don't follow. oh the date of the op? whatever.

long story, short... i was in a hurry. end up taking a corner too quickly and flew off a 3 foot drop. Being in a turn + trying to slow down on a brakeless fixed + inadvertently landing a 3 foot drop = lot of force on the front end. If i hadn't been trying to slow down when i landed i would have been just fine. I was really exhausted and in a huge hurry it all just went to embarrassment quickly.

yea i smile... trust me! just not after 8 hours of driving while listening to a shitty book on tape.

oh i have an IRO Marv V with a big basket, a Cervelo Soloist, and a Clifcat Tankass. plus some other randoms.

me driving across Pennsylvania and my bike sitting in my driveway.

i have a lot of bikes, actually. this is the fixed.

actually i just destroyed the fork on that bike, so it's sitting in a heap right now. can't believe it, really.

so, just picked up my fuji track, and omg the pedals are shite, also dont like the plastic toe clips.

coming from a bmx/mtb background, ive always just used flats, even racing xc (was worth it for the comments).. anyway, are they really that import for fixed, if im not that bothered about skidding??

just asking, cos these are gonna drive me crazy

pete get good pedals, clips and high quality double straps. i grew up with BMX and riding MTB with platform pedals... I know you think you've got all the bike control in the world, and i'm sure you do, but this is different. you'll need and want some retention.

way too skinny no?

i like all types, as long as she looks natural, and she ain't not got none them creases in no places they don't belong. this one looks great to me.

well well well.... quite a looker.

They are about as original as eggs at Easter.

not really so. they have some neat features, if you read the link... but not necessary for me and i also don't think riding a bike needs to be this complicated.

Even funnier than the antiporn is when people post photos of bikes that aren't trying to be anything. They're just bikes that happen to be ugly. Makes the poster look like quite the tool.

Totally pointless wanky anecdote:

I've got a cheapy Cateye one that goes absolutely apeshit when I cycle past the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital or the Us Embassy (probably cos of all the electromagnetic shite they're pumping out).

I'll bet none of you fuckers can boast a recorded top speed of 134.6 MPH

My iPhone turns off and reboots whenever i walk by the hospital here. Sounds weird, i know, but I've noticed it 5 times because the only time i walk by there is when i'm leaving work and I've driven my car, which is rare, and during that time I invariable pull my phone out of my pocket.

Cateye strada, I've been using one for the past two years and it's flawless.

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