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Kleins and their paint jobs are glorious - that is a good one

Bump. Presumably it's a done deal already but objected nonetheless.

Or:

"How can a bike cost eight or nine hundred pounds? I think we should be told!"

It's government procurement gone mad I say.

interesting point. I wonder to what extent cabbies busines will be affected by this. I'm surprised that the daily mail doesn't feature a winging cabbie in this piece

Some of the comments are perhaps a touch on the moany side though... This one is spectacular though, "BORIS BIKES CAUSE CANCER" is presumably the headline of the (upcoming) related article:

"Cyclists breathe 7 times more rapidly than motorists . Breathing in London air at that rate will hugely increase a non smokers chance of chronic bronchitis , emphysema, lung cancer etc ."

I put velo orange 'guards on my Yates (the 37mm ones) and I bloody hate them, rattly and utter shite, frankly. There's no way a single stay on a muguard is a good idea. I'm going to adapt some good ol' plastic SKS to be direct fited instead.

Yes - I did this too. They came off again in short order, terribly noisy.

I didn't read N3lsons as a misunderstanding of the placebo effect. Earlier in the page we've been talking about branded versus generic versions of the same drug (Nurofen vs generic ibuprofen).

I also misread MDCC_testers's post as being of a similar issuec (i.e branded verson of the same thing).

Interesting. One trial I heard about concluded that pills that were coloured red were significantly more effective than the same ones in green - and both of these were significantly more effective again if delivered to the patient by a "doctor" wearing a lab coat.

But my mum used to say medicine works better if it tastes bad, that's true right?

Or is that placebo effect?

It has to have the ability to alter some part of your metabolism, otherwise it's simply not doing anything. Anything that, taken in the quantities of overdose that those 'experiments' were demonstrating that does nothing (not necessarily kill you) means that the thing they were taking did nothing.

OK, can see it now :). Not quite the finish I'm after but many thanks.

Annoyingly I can't see the pictures at work - I may be interested in the front (assume!) 650c wheel. What rim is it?

You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi

Yeah - replacing the dropouts is an option, but probably more expensive than the hub - this frame is nice, but it's not my main one so may not stick with me forever. Doing something around the wheel makes sense to me, as the problem is then solved for good and you could use it on other frames.

Will probably end up with the ENO, but just wondering out loud really.

White Industries hubs are expensive. This (admittedly old) article suggests that there are alternatives (Fixed Innovations axle mentioned).

http://www.63xc.com/hubchoice/willhubs.htm

I've not been able to find much out about them, but I can imagine it shouldn't be hard to create an eccentric spacer for any standard hub. Just asked in Condor, and they suggested it's doable but would be a custom CNC job - unfortunately I don't have a CNC lathe...

I know this has been asked before - but has anyone any information about ENO alternatives, or about some "of the other companies now nosing around this niche"

Cheers,

Chris

At work so can't see all the pictures on the auction page - suspect the problem is whether you'd be able to bend them through the double clamps (unless they open up completely)?

@Spaceman, just buy the whole thing :)

Ahem - no... I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that having your entire bike stable comprised solely of lo pros would be indulgent...

At least if I just got the frame I could hold off building it until I got a more sensible bike for pottering around town on.

I was half tempted on this frame when it went up the first time - let me know if you split. I may be up for it.

got an aende myself was hoping it was going to be advertised again for less to buy it to increase the pongo collection

haha! glad it's not just me that checks all the Aendes that come up with a view to expanding the stable!

I've been watching it out of interest - be annoying if it did go for £90 in the end (as you say, it probably is worth a punt at that sort of level!). Wouldn't want to bid on principle though :)

The owner of that Vivalo has his mates shill bidding on it (and wants £350) - there's a thread for it thats been linked earlier in the page where there was some doubt as to whether it would be fixable anyway given the thin lugs. I reported it to ebay earlier this week, but I guess they're not interested.

Wouldn't bother - its (probably) not a fair auction and won't be cheap to fix, obviously each to their own if you feel comfortable with the risk.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread44152.html#post1430099

Thanks chaps - the gopro looks a bit unwieldy for a helmet, though footage obviously pretty impressive.
Pifko - cheers, maybe a cheapo one would do the job, at least to see how it works out. That thread's pretty useful too. We got a picture of him and his reg with a phone camera so the Police are following him up, obviously there'll be the usual letter writing afterwards, so might steal a couple of those examples on there.

Old thread - apologies for the bump. After a particularly traumatic encounter with a coach (managed to actually hit one of my party, then tailgate her through heavy traffic for about five minutes without letting her off the road), I'm in the market for one of these - obviously for the polive but also to post it to the CEO of whatever company they work so the knob gets a proper hiding.

There's a few out there and obviously I can just google, but if anyone has any more up to date reommendations than the earlier posts in this thread, then that would be much appreciated.

Yes, this will be number frame number two, number one was this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33937019@N07/sets/72157622019662845/

I think this one is going to take a long, long time to get done. Number one was mainly built on the dining table, this time I have to convert the coal hole under the front steps into a workshop first. Women can be soooo unreasonable.

haha! yes, I may encounter the same issue with the shed :) I think I've seen your walrus flyer - perhaps the tweed run or at hyde park corner some time. Looks great - I've got some carpentry (instrument building) but little metalwork experience, going to take it very slowly.

^^ You frame building yourself s.walrus? Be interested to see your progress - I'm half planning on a frame being my summer project (though bigger shed required first...)

I don't like this paint job much although I can appreciate the effort that's gone into it and the finish looks to be good. Mostly I just coz I don't like pink. Don't think there's anything wrong with the new owner changing it as it is their bike now. I would have painted it matt black myself. If you wanted to keep it like this you should have bought it yourself.

Agree - it's his bike, he can frankly do what he wants with it. I liked the pink too, though I've never been a huge GT fan (I think it stems from disliking the shop that used to sell them around my parts!). Polished bikes look nice, that one is nicely polished, therefore it looks nice.

Someone was polishing a Klein MTB around here a few months back, and it looked killer - I imagine that had some pretty nice paint on it beforehand, but no one got so excited about that.