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^^ Total gash.

the brompton is your nicest bike

What's wrong with my lavoro?!? :(

Each to their own I guess. I do love my brompton but the lavoro is far nicer and more rewarding to ride. And i think it looks a lot nicer.

verbs & nouns, our very own purebreed resident hipster.

Here's a classic example.

Scroll down for some hipster popcorn :)

Heh. The Stylist crashed this bike; totalled it RLJ'ing. and I bought the spok off of him. :)

damn right. Face mask is the best way to keep warm and protect your skin in the winter. None of this faffing around with a balaclava.

Going back to the whole alu failure in frames.

When I worked at cyclescurgery, we used to see a cheap marin hybrid once every week or so. Normally ridden into the shop with complaints about noises while riding. On one occasion the seat tube was completely sheared off.. makes me wonder a) how it was ridden and b) how the rider didn't notice.

The best was a story I heard about a very expensive Marin aluminium/scandium hard tail mountainbike, which developed a vertical crack down the HEAD TUBE. I'd have loved/hated to have been the shop assistant deal with that.

Here is my brompton. I love this bike and will never part with it. Custom 2-tone green S3L.

oh ok. gimme a second...

ahh I could watch that all day..

Like most of the photos so far, its out of date :)

me:

Feel like it's time I updated this, 5 years on... God knows what bike was in that picture or what my face was.

This is what I look like now, and what I ride:

I got a brompton as well but i guess you don't wanna see that.

My new bike.

Used to belong to eyebrows, been adjusting and tweaking it this week (until it snowed).

I'm pretty sure this is the nicest bike I've ever owned...

Not much of a project, all I've done is stick some pedals, a smaller chainring, a new seatpost and some handlebars on it, but I think this is a keeper. :D

Next things to do: clean the wheels, get a matching thomson stem? Upgrade to an actual arione as opposed to the P-X?

I end up trying to figure out what equation I got wrong last night, only to do this stupid diagram;

reach remain constant, but BB end up staying the same, if not further back (example is extreme but enough to show my point), what point am I missing?

The point you're missing is that, as that diagram shows, the reach stayed the same after changing the forks and lowering the front end.

Because you thought the reach had got shorter, you moved the saddle back, which increased the reach, thereby facilitating the need for a shorter stem.

If you'd changed nothing you probably wouldn't have even noticed.

I think I'll just get some disc tabs brazed on.
I need a brake, always have, always will.
Don't want it to be a trick bike, and theoretically a fat tyred 26 should have the same diameter as a 23c 700c, and since I love taking it through the nearby forest already, may as well make it as practical as possible!
Will probably just get some 38c cross tyres.

Henry - wanna buy some rokshox forks (not sure which model, not particularly high end), complete with an avid juicy 3 and a hardly used rotor? :D

to be fair, £650 for that with two sets of wheels is great value! Looks to be in great condition, decent parts, and a fairly unique english handbuilt frame. Will you be including the clamp-on brake?

I've always had a soft spot for those orrell flying gate style bikes. Best of luck with the sale.

My grandad was the scientific advisor on that film. He also designed all of the laboratory sets and equipment. :)

Oh ed...

I think you need to be prepared to take in second opinions every now and again, rather than learning a particular way of doing something and then extolling it as gospel much to the ire of others who are more educated on the matter.

That's pretty much your only weakness, that's why people get frustrated. Simple as.

hippy's hill climb machine is 165 gear metres. each climb requires merely 1 full rotation. Which he does at 120 RPM.

I was going to say

1) front brake
2) your face

but I didn't want to be inflammatory. :)

I prefer 2 ways of stopping on my bikes. Preferably 2 mechanical ways of stopping. a brake and my legs, 2 brakes, etc.

But each to their own.

haha. I'm out. Buying a bike this weekend, I think I'm at risk of going on a spend spree. It's yours if you want it amey.

There's two ways to fit a headset. One with a press, which you can make yourself (threaded billet, some big washers and nuts, and a big turny gubbins. The other is with a block of wood and a mallet.

My advice, hop on the bus to B&Q and buy the bits you need for the former. The latter tends to be a bit hair raising and probably not that good for the frame, your headset or sanity.

It's too big for me

It's too small for me

I just don't think it's sky blue enough