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Chromic Aberration. Not coloured spokes.

Ah! Grand.

I'll agree about valve and lack of foot retention being a drawback, but I love the sloppy rakish angles!

With exception of coloured spokes (whose idea was THAT!?) this is gorgeous…

BSA Racer

Just have to hope no copycat muggers take their place.
And a long term solution would be nice too...

Sorry, no jacket chat from me. I'm just a total COAT (cunt of a thing), but Re: The Mather – Frame geometry is incredibly lush, and dropouts are wonderful. Badge and colour also lovely. Not my dream bike, but certainly a beaut.

just realised I've lost the USB charger for my blackburn fleas. O well, think it was broken anyway. Time to charge them for 12 years with the battery charger.
My Blackburn Voyager rear light kept getting stuck, as you have to press the light in to turn it on. So I took it apart and cleaned it and put it back together with some grease to keep it moving smoothly. Now it's got all stuck again and I've not even used it since. It turns on and off fine, but it's really weak. If I hold it down then it's normal brightness, but not under its own pressure. Highly annoying.

My USB charger for my Fleas will charge the front light but not the rear. I’ve got two USB chargers now because the first set had the same problem, so I took the old set back but forgot to hand back the old charger. Neither work.

Does anyone know of a better built substitute? Thought these would be my best bet, but I can’t find any other USB lights that look like they’re made to last.

EDIT
Just tried the older charger on my rear light and it works, but not the front. Vice versa with the newer charger. This is all very confusing and weird. My advice is if you can somehow wangle a free second USB charger and don't mind fiddling about a lot, these are OK. Otherwise avoid.

@bigtwin: Word!

^ I don't think a pair of handcuffs could ever be more secure than a 18mm shackle D-lock, ossifer. It would be irresponsible to recommend this method anywhere like London where bike crime is an issue.

If your bike said 'POLICE' on the downtube, maybe that's what kept it safe? Otherwise, I'd chalk it up to locking up in secure or low risk areas. Or just very very good luck.

^ That's the badger! Cheers Erudin. They're pretty cheap so might give em a go anyway and if they're no cop then it's no great tragedy.

Edit: Just noticed they don't seem to have washers attached. What's the verdict on this, as I'm not a mechanic?

GA2G: Not the ones I was thinking of. Those are skewers and the ones I was thinking of were just tracknuts for solid axel hubs that can’t have skewers replaced. I’m not sure they’d be much more secure than a standard hex nut, but I was interested to weight up my options. Cheers anyway though... I’ll try trawling again.

HatBeard: I think common sense ought to trump Sold Secure, so I wouldn’t worry about it (obviously this is just my personal feeling, and perhaps shouldn’t be recommended).
I don’t have insurance. I lock up with a Krypto M18 round rear wheel, frame and object, and mini evo through front wheel and frame. I don’t leave it outside like this for longer than 30 mins unless I can check on it easily (sitting in a caf or ducking out of a pub for a fag every so often). From reading this thread from beginning to end, I feel this is all the insurance I need. Your setup is better than mine due to the Fagh’s thicker shackle and less space for leverage, but if you can’t check on it regularly, then maybe it would be good to get a third lock. But I can’t help but think that it’s overkill and needless expense just because the rating system insurers use is poor.

Sorry... Not really the advice you were hoping for. I’m sure someone else will have a view on this that might be more helpful.

This is probably the right thread for this question:

I seem to remember someone posting up a link to a website that sold no nonsense track nuts that require a special spanner (possibly triangular?) to loosen them. I know they can't compete with Pitlocks for security, but it's primarily for added peace of mind on days when I leave the house quickly and forget my second lock.

Searched for ages but couldn't find it. Any help appreciated as always.

Your account won't accept PMs. Tried to PM you the following:

Hi James,

I still have these. I'll have to check my drawer to make sure I've still got the instructions, but if I don't, they're here:
http://www.pitlock.com/images/blisterrs.jpg

Just to reiterate, they're not packaged as new (or I would have taken them back) but they're totally unused and unregistered with Pitlock, which you can do on reciept of them here:
http://www.pitlock.com/code-registration/index.php

£30 + free P&P alright with you?

Any questions let me know,
Jonny

I'll send you my number when you've got PM sorted.
Cheers.

^ Nice avatar only_forward. My dad designed it! :)

This is my favourite thing at the moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

Maybe because it's TEDx not TED proper?

Can you wiggle it at someone else please? It's making me feel ill.

Lidl sell angle grinders!?
This is the start of some kind of distopian film where gangs of PCP smoking skinhead girls armed with Primark knives and Lidl angle grinders terrorise preening trendies and young professionals.

I saw a fellow in on of those this morning on the commute.
His rattly bike, fluro backpack and bandy-kneed riding style screamed "unsophisticated nodder" whilst the Paul Smith Rapha jersey whispered "creme de la creme". In my view, the nodder gear was winning the shouting match.

Pony's on the ball.

sports cave

^^^ Yes!

Crime map is interesting. Never knew Southgate was all that bad. Kingsland can be a bit shady up Dalston way, but didn't know it was any more so than other areas around that part.

The Barbour remark made me laugh. Originally, though, I read "walking labradors" as "waxing labradors" and for one crazed moment my brain conjured a petrifying toff-faced human-hound hybrid with waxed cotton for skin.

If that's the only downside they sound like a winner.

'Llow it bruv. Bare yootmans nar ramp wi nar folly.

Also, I think it’s fairly obvious that the phrase “traffic free” on a London cycling messageboard refers to motor traffic, no?
The only way I could image a street being traffic free would be if it were in a ghost town. Which London certainly ain’t.
But then, how about tumbleweed traffic? Does that count as traffic?

Let's please not spray the words "pikeys about" on anything.
Also, unless anyone has serious balls and some crazy Krav Maga skills to sort it out themselves, comparing the police – who, let's face, are the most likely to resolve this – lazy pigs, seems a little counter intuitive.

Having said that, I'm all for twatting some slags round the loaf... or something...

Seen a couple of bikes with lights attached to the hubs so they spin round.
Probably more decorative than actually helpful though.