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OK - either over priced or undesirable.

How about no money to me - just collection and a donation to the forum?

Great. She loves owls, so we're in, date pending.
Any ballpark date at all? (Just to make sure we're actually likely to be around to participate this time)

Just checking with my friend how she feels about owls.

I would love to touch all the owls.

^ps I really like your Ciocc JWestland.
Was that frame bought off the forum?

I'm getting the itch to drop some pounds on a modern road bike.
I like the look of the Boardman Compfi, even though the name is hideous.

http://www.boardmanbikes.com/fi/fi_road_comp.html

I think more of entry level, but not the lowest level. I don't know if I'm going to like it, although I don't know why I wouldn't.
Has anyone tried one of the Boardmans? What are they like to ride?

Any other suggestions?
(Not Trek, I know it sounds ridiculous but I had such a disaster with a Trek a while ago that I just can't think of them without getting a bit angry and flustered)

I am, naturally, meant to be getting rid of larger items rather than accumulating them, but I'll worry about that when I move. The chap may just have to get used to tripping over bikes on the stairs, or sharing a bed with one when we run out of space.

Youch.
Looks potentially rather good though.
I'm not yet sure what my limit budget is for wonderful comfort. Possibly that much, but most likely only once I've spent six times that trying out various cheaper options.
Shopping logic.

What I would be interested to try is a firm saddle with a decent amount of width at the back, but with the narrowest possible 'between the leg' but that still allows for a depression / cut out.

I'm glad someone finally said something about flappy bits. (At least on the pages I've read).

I've still found nothing I absolutely love. Or at least don't really notice.

On the 'nag I've got one of the gel lady flow things with a cut out. Generally it's rather good, but I still think it's a little wide in the 'flappy bit' area so thigh chafing has been a slight issue still*It is, however, more comfortable in other ways. Maybe the cut out is helping with pressure from my riding position.
On the beater I've got an old generic selle italia which is also pretty good. Very comfy on shorter rides, but I doubt I'd feel the same anything over 20 miles.

Interesting reading about this T shaped idea. Something I'm going to go and do more research on.

After all my trials I'm kind of left wondering whether I have a particularly unusual anatomy. I most likely have the typical wider sit bones of the 'average' female, but I have never found the width at that part of the saddle an issue, just the part at the, err, under-carriage (for want of a better word).

Overshare?
Oh well.

I was getting all excited about this and ready to confirm attendance, and then I remembered that's the last day of my holiday so I'm not here :(

Starting a new thread for this in more appropriate location.

Lovely old kids mixte. I was going to do this up for my goddaughter, but quite frankly I've run out of inclination and her parents bought her some hideous modern thing.
All there except saddle and the red bar grips which were rotten. It needs someone with time and know how, a polish and a bit of effort. the mudguards are knackered, but someone on here mentioned they may be able to do a reasonable restoration job on them.
Suitable for a small person of around 5/6/7 although who knows with kids. Theres a picture of it complete next to a standard park bench for size reference.
£40>£30

It has been taken apart for storage, but when built up it looked like this:

It has rather fancy lugs for a littlun:

Photos can be found at: http://s1169.photobucket.com/user/Fa...0August%202013

It (and I) am Highgate based.

I love that pub bike. May have to attempt to recreate...

I've still got the 'nag, but with a swanky new saddle.

And the new addition is this jolly orange knackered beater. It's ever so fun.

Im seriously tempted by this for the chap.
What's the TT and the stand over height?

Items added, post updated, price reduction on little bike.

She looks like she's plotting. Which cats usually are.

Unless they're completely daft and as easily perturbed as Robi is.

Here he is in his new favourite snoozing spot:

Talking of which, does anyone have a cat that actually likes cat beds? Because if so I have one going spare. Robi looked at it once, a while back.

http://www.houseofpaws.co.uk/product/HP028B_Tweed-Oval-Pet-Bed-HP028.html

updated.

Kids' mixte - please someone give this a home!

Any interest in the childrens mixte?

Price dropped and negotiable.

I've not got long before I have to move house and there is going to be no room for anything that isn't essential. Plus it really deserves a nice home with an awesome kid to ride it.

So very sad and so very avoidable.
RIP.

updated.

Closed

I was calm and thinking it through! And then when those things didn't work I got a bit irate and sad. My brain cannot figure out how it happened in order to reverse the process.

FixedStar - thanks, I would love to do that. Alas I don't have a chain breaking tool, and if I did I wouldn't know exactly how to use it. One of the many bits of bike maintenance I have failed to learn.

I'll give it another go in a day or so, and after that I guess I'll chop it off with some secateurs and try and put a new one on.

Well, perhaps not physics but certainly logic.

I was perhaps a little enthusiastic when changing down gears (yes gears, the shame) and the chain jumped off and got rammed beside the spokes. I ended up taking the rear wheel off and wrestling it out, but on replacing the wheel I have a double twist in the chain.
Goodness knows I have searched and googled and tried what it said, but it's not working.
Links won't pass, making the loops bigger and shaking things etc. Nope.

Now I'm in a right pickle, covered in filth and utterly bemused. Does anyone have any amazing ideas or words of wisdom? (Or better yet a chain breaker in Highgate that they know how to use)

Yours beffudled-ly with thanks.

I'm tentatively signing up for this - have started proper bike riding again, so will be back to brighton distance fitness by this time.

Excellent news!
But I'm ever so impressed. I haven't stopped riding and I don't have a hope in hell of being at brighton distance fitness by then!

This is just awful.
Rest in peace, rider. Thinking of you and yours.

I use this stretch of road pretty much daily, and I always feel iffy about it.

My recent favourite:

Outside Bethnal Green Tube station a couple of days ago.

My friend is looking to sell this if of interest?

It's a 52/53 c-t seat tube. I'm a bit under 5'4" and normally ride a 49cm and this fits me well.