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I'm sorry to hear that you're in Atlanta, I'm sure you don't deserve it though.

would not go that far. atlanta is great

Does that Merckx have a tiny ratio? or did campag make their own version 10 pitch?

how is that an either or? unrelated variables.

or a long bike... fuck i reckon one of them alone is a relatively long/tall bike in this context.

should bought two!

;-]

You could rescue that Brooklyn pretty easily by putting risers and v-brakes on it then using it to jump down stairs.

something tells me ed isn't going to be getting airborne. or putting risers on anything. the brakes are such a mess.

i also think ed can handle the criticism.

(need to modified the surly canti holder as it's too long, hence the temporary one).

this bike keeps getting more and more fucked up. and at quite an expense.

[QUOTE=GA2G;2047738]I found it in the Stolen Bikes thread. [QUOTE]

Now I´ve read some of this thread and I´m trying not to become paranoid :-)
Bike theft seems to be a real disgrace in London. Here in Nuremberg it´s not that bad, most bikes are secured with rope locks or armoured cable locks. My Krypto NYL is quite unusual here but my bike was worth 2400€, so I need a decent lock.

when i first joined the forum, i had the same impression. seems theft is popular way of life in London. No US city i've been to has such a concern for locks. i've used a 13mm On Guard for my 5000 dollar Waterford for years. no other security at all. this is in a few cities too. Atlanta, Wash DC, Cleveland...

i definitely do lock up in high traffic areas though, as a point of security.

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It can be either way, it's period corrected.

yea but that way happens to be backwards.

brodie is nice. others are nice too, but in a typical manner.

i hate that hat, see it every where.

also wtf is he eating?!?!

it's funnel cake. google it.

I'd previously thought sugino messengers had a good rep, but sounds like theres been quite a few failures, albeit all have propagated over time as far as I'm concerned it shouldn't happen!*

*if you are using the right crank for the right job. e.g. if you were using a super lightweight touring/ racing crank I would not expect it to put up with years of abusive fixed/ single/ out of the saddle riding.

I used to ride DH/mtb a LOT, probably out 30hours a week or more on my bike doing various things and I've never had a crank fail, not even shitbox OE ones that I'd borrowed from a mate (when a gen1 hollowtech bb failed after a few weeks of use). Between our group of riders we would tend to buy the same kit, as you do, one guy gets something new, then the others would want. ANd from teh larger commuinity if we had a repetitive failure, cranks/pedal axles/ suspension linkages/forks/ h'bars etc we would as a group ditch the product and move on.

What I'm saying is, why has Sugino themselves not responded to a number of their messenger cranks snapping through general use leading to various minor accidents (thankfully none more serious yet)?

had the same thought

You know more than me regarding track gear. But general bike gear seldom gets tougher, as you go up the hierarchy. weight figures become increasingly prioritised. This is exactly why I stick with standard deore stuff for the work horse.

cheap strong light, pick two.
but yea pretty clear that crack has been there for while.

thats actually expensive. I get it done for $30 for as many parts as you can fit in the bath. if you need a bigger bath the price goes up.

Black C-Record track hubs, wtf!?
for sale on the bay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Track-hubs-Campagnolo-STAR-SHERIFF-BLACK-36H-Pista-Hub-/110665266220?pt=Cycling_Parts_Accessories&hash=item19c429f42c#ht_8914wt_1141

i'm surprised people haven't figured out how cheap it is to anodize aluminum parts black. These were all sorts of colors when i bought them.... gold, silver, grey, etc.... few bucks later they look like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanielsears/4411215457/

all the weight is on the axle. the fork bears none of the load.

In term of design? appearance? or the notion of a 'track bike' having rack?

short chain stays and panniers are a ball pain.

i dunno about that one ed. make it black or raw and make the wood darker. i also hate cork grips. wooden fenders annnoy me and that stem is junk.

nice concept though. even if i hate bikes that make me think of surfboards.

All City Big Block?

from a distance they look nicer, but the Surly is better built. welds on the all city don't seem all that clean, and the dropouts don't mesh nicely with the stays.

surly wins at this game.

My brother rides a Steamroller as a rainy day bike and I ride a Mark V. Those are really the only two bikes i'd consider in this category.

I prefer the Mark V because it's a bit lighter and you can easily drill the dropouts to accept fenders directly.

If you want to buy a lot of parts for the bike, this may be worth your attention... considering you get a frame made by waterford and 20% off the parts. It won't be as pretty as a true Waterford, but it'll be quality.
http://www.benscycle.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=612_1546&products_id=1576

as far as i know you actually need steerer showing above the stem, with a spacer on it if the steerer is carbon so that the clamping pressure around the steerer from the stem is even. /rambling

this is the best technique.

So the top of the steerer is just over the height of the top bolt on the stem. The bike shop said it would be okay, but I might take it there tomorrow just to check.
Failing that what are my options, short of getting a new fork...as I really like this one

bad scene. don't do it.

was just curious....

I have 3 current projects, all beaters, all for family members... this is the only 'nice beater' of the 3, and it's nearly finished. Bought off the forum, I've serviced her and added Deore LX rear mech and Deore levers and SRAM 9 speed cassette that I had lying around, some old brake levers, as well as some old MTB wheels that had just come off another bike that I was upgrading. Just needs a new front mech, a bit of wheel truing and maybe different rear brake blocks because they honk like a very honky thing and send (quite pleasant actually) vibrations throughout the entre bike / saddle.

you need to toe the pads in.

Can you explain how derailleurs have changed 'paradigms' in the last 15 years? Mechanically the principle behind them is the same as it was.

So I'd say your opinion was, essentially, worth shit.

paradigm being the number of gears needed, number of rings needed, etc... brakes, threadless headsets, the manner in which wheels are attached to bikes, the interface between the BB and cranks, chain guides, interchangeable dropouts, thru-axles. I was not talking abotu the fact that deraileurs are parallelograms.

anyway... yes they are all parallelograms, but a major shift is in the size of the deraileur and the size of the drive train. Much less chain is needed to get a range of gears nowadays, leading to smaller derailoerus. People rarely use three rings upfront also, and so the rear deraileurs can be even more compact. In fact, i alluded to this a few posts back. In the 90's no one could really understand why shimano thought MTB deraileurs had to be bigger, and so we ran 105 road deraileurs with road cassettes.

another major change has been in the the angle that the housing enters the derailleru. much less housing and bending is needed. Better shifting is noted, especially when going into smaller cogs.