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+1 rpm. Take it out and go to your lbs and get the threads chased out. Then try again. Clean threads are the future.

stephen frys just tweeted about this on twitter. sounds like he's on board.

We got a co-pilot limo a couple of weeks ago for our 7 month old. He loves it. It is a really good seat I think and fits onto a standard Blackburn ex1 pannier rack. It reclines, has good side protection and just leaves a convenient pannier rack on the bike when you remove the seat. Am well pleased with it. Look and the Hamas ones and didn't like them.

Thanks sumo. What's google again?

does anyone have pics of a cinelli mash with open pro cd rims? have the frame but cant decide on wheels.
cheers all.

i ignore that bit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52042204@N02/4818873053/in/set-72157624560593126/
kinda like this.

[QUOTE=Jeez;1399252]is there any way of mounting a frame clamp onto the Tacx stand so that it could be used in the park tools way as well as the Taxz way? Someone should (or maybe does) offer a Tacx-style stand with a futher post / clamp that can just be slotted in somewhere to increase the flexibility of the stand.QUOTE]

not that im aware of. but that doesnt mean it doesnt exist. shounds a bit like over complicating things to me. get which ever one seems best to you. for me thats the park.

yeah have used them to carryout most repairs to bikes including stiff bb's. not easy but possible. usually clamp seat tube as close to bb as possible and go to town. (depending on frame of course.) failing that take it out of the stand but at no time on my cytech course did they say you could not remove a partially dismantled bike from the stand. i found that the tacx one became unstable when trying to undo the bb and worked best if you placed it up against a wall to stop you pushing it over. but most home mechanics wont try too hard on a bb. theyll take it to a shop where if they fuck it, they pay for it. thats my experience anyway.

at the end of the day either are better than that shitty prop stand and you would be happy with either. me and hugo just differ on which is best. (hugo's wrong by the way):-)

that tacx stand is ok i just alwys found them a bit top heavy, and if youre using them for a number of different bikes they are a pain in the arse to keep adjusting. plus theyre uselss for adjusting the headset/front brake cause you have to take the wheel out to hold the bike. not shit, just flawed imo.

oh and theyre reasonably heavy, which in use is ace, to move about is a pain.

they will clamp up on just about frame you put in it. the clamp on this stand is infinitely adjustable up to a diameter of about 8inches. if you go into just about any bike shop their workshop will be using a variation of this stand and for the home meachanic they are excellent. their ony draw back is theay are a bit bulky to store. but still not the end ot the world. i have used a number of stands over the past 15 years and nothing comes close to a park.

my reccommendation is to buy the park stand from ribble. you will never regret it. unless you should be spending the cash on life saving drugs.

it was like working on a bike on the deck of a ship mid storm. spent more time lying down than stood up.

julies never supplied the frames just the stickers. the stickers are from the 80's when they sponsored the local zenith team. names escape me but they sponsored some top national riders, some of who went pro.

Just won this. Going for a classic look seeing as it has nice lugwork - any ideas where to get it painted? Asides from the Dovvles super-service, of course, I've heard there is a really, really long queue... and although armourtex are on my road, I think i want a nice contrasting lugs type job so powdercoat is prob out too

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It's having silver dp18s on Miche hubs, and, er, that's all that's decided. Ideas on a postcard please...?

i used to work in the shop that is shown on that frame. will probably have belonged to a member of the ratae road club that the shop sponsored back then. can see if i can find more out for you if you'd like.

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they dont stretch they wear and get longer. they may stretch under pressure but they dont stretch on a permanent basis.

try betd.co.uk they have loads and will almost certainly have one to fit. although they arent universal, they are often common between a couple of frames. failing that any fuji dealer will be able to get you one.

the problem with carbon is it doesnt dent, it it breaks. which is bad and as such can, i repeat can be an issue is certain crash conditions that an ali bike would survive.
cheap carbon frames are not inherently bad. the are generally made by the same people who produce the more expensive frames. they take ideas from the large established brands, incorporate them into a frame that they can produce cheaply, sell them through a random importer/direct and voila, cheap carbon fibre. most of these frames will have been fatigue tested because they have to be, they just dont have the expensive r and d to pay for as the established manufacturers have already done it.

cheap shit chainring do this alot. also bent bb axle but youd feel that at the pedal. most likely out of true chainring.
with a bit of filing you will get it to fit, just dont go mad. if its a tiny bit then fine, if its loads (more than a mm) then leave it. get the chainring that goes with the crank arm.

Brilliant thread. Thanks for the advice.

Having watched for a while I thought I'd join In. Newbie to the whole fixies. Mountainbiker for as long as I can remember. After cheap bit for my project if anyone has stuff going spare.

done.

as a tool to attempt to understand cyclist behaviors it is a bit simple. alot of the questions need expanding. if road designers were obliged to ride a bike when they're designing cycle facilities it would make our lives alot safer.