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yeah this is what i'm worried about. Its shit, its obvious to anyone who knows anything that it is shit. But to the average south london bike thief it could be worth £5, and thats worth stealing.

Gonna take the belt sander to it tomorrow eve, strip the paint off it in a childlike destructive manor, if it still looks worth £2 even then.... well, got a few interesting tubs of paint in the barn ;)

hope you guys are ready for some plain aweful.....
My theme is 'anti-theft', though it has some way to go until it is truely unstealable.

I started off with these two. Both freecycle finds from the far far far far north (moah north than manchester, but not as far as scotland).
The blue one, a 1976 (ish) Dawes Flambeau, in completely original spec (actually I lie, it had a replacement weinmann rear wheel in the early 80's) and perfect size for me (st57 & tt57), mechanically perfect as well, but visually distressed. One gentleman owner from new who was about to chuck her on the heap until I spoke up. She has been stripped to bare metal, and resprayed in a very close match to the original, the hand painted (or looked like hand) names have gone though.
She is almost there rebuild wise, luckily found a pair of un-used 80's Mavic tubeless rims in grey with dura ace hubs (?) in a local junk bike shop for a few quid, a donated tub, some donated brake blocks (cheers Mr.BC of glasgow - he runs the recumbent shop), and a free saddle from Mr.Crabtree on here.
Unfortunately haven't got the patience to properly re-dish the rear wheel yet, but its almost done. Debut soon!

The next, is the ultimate in anti-porn. Original idea with getting interested in roadie bikes (up until october I thought anything with tyres less than 2.2" was pathetic looking, stupid and probably dangerous, though my view of road riders* hasn't changed all that much ;) ) was to beat TFL of robbing me £8-9 a day while visiting my girlfriend in london, so the brief was....

• get the bike as cheap as poss (It was free, though £10 of fuel to fetch both of them from other side of county)

• fix it up with as little effort as poss (well, took probably 5hours to strip, replace all the bearings & races with spares from the drawer of junk in the barn, re-fit, recable and true up the wheels)

• make it look as aweful as is humanly possible (I'm somewhere near)

• make it practical (52:16 with 160mm cranks, 27" wheels, huge tyres is fine for the city, but here in mountain country its a bit of a joke).

She actually rides quite nice, though its a bit short for me, tt57 and st54, and seatpost is too short so it kills my knees riding it around them hills (not pictured & shameless plug for a free tatty post in ???? diameter).

Also its good for cyclocross.... (picture lost, but imagine the above axle deep in mud and cow shite down an un-used bridleway) and overtaking kit freaks with carbon fibre racing bike with gps, heart rate monitors and a back up car following them to provide shelter from the wind when it gets too much*

Anyway, hope to come to london on the weekend and see just how un-stealable it is. Please leave comments of how I can make it even less appealing to thieves. Note. picture does not show rusty chrome rims, badly surface rusted frame and tatty components etc.

This is my general view of road bike riders, too much kit, mid life crisis type guys who can't ride for st and even though they were overtaken by a young guy (who has not ridden in earnest in 18month) on a 40year old wreck of a bike running a ridiculously high gear, STILL feel the need to mutter rubbish under their breath about how fit/fast/good/better they are at life and how everyone else should dissapear.*

as above, make your own!
black nylon flat webbing can be had from most walking/climbing shops for pennies per/metre, you can get cheap plastic buckles & parts again for a few pence.

For leather ones hunt in charity shops 10pence bins, fit 'em and stitch them to the right length or use the original buckle and just skewer holes through the leather. I mean for £9.50+postage you might aswell hang on classifieds and get some MKS ones, I think those are only about £12 new for the plastic ones, and often go for £5 in usable condition on here.

nervex: No idea what it is, but that is one damn nice field find!

EnglishBikes - custom folding 29er. God damn sexy as hell, and ridiculous attention to detail.

external butting, some intricate tube bending, and neat moving dropouts. They made it to fit into a standard airline suitcase (rear triangle swings around the bb and sits over the front triangle when folded). Do Want (if I was into 29ers)

people will buy d40's all day long for £200. I don't see the problem. Yeah its silver, noone wants a silver plastic camera, but all tog students invariably buy one of these or a canon 100 series and move on at some point, they always have £200-300 in their pockets and are quite happy to pay.
if you get it on ebay at teh right time (e.g. no others ending at same time) you would probably see even more for it TBH. people on ebay are thick at the best of times, make the best of it ;)

YouTube - The Tuss - Alspacka

musiKal magiK if you stick it to the end.

YouTube - The Tuss- Death Fuck Mental Beats

brain implosion

YouTube - Radioactive man - Trespasser

its what I do for a living, no jokes

YouTube - Radioactive Man - Uranium

then a nice wind down. Relaxing :p

YouTube - Boards of Canada - Sixtyniner

its meant to sound like its played backwards through a trashed grammaphone (boc maxima), newer versions (twoism) were much cleaner sounding.

bah. knew there would be a thread somewhere, I did look for about 20mins for an existing thread, but somehow didn't spot that one!
calling hippy.., thread cleanup in isle 5!

heyup peeps of LFGSS

just caught the last 5mins of this programme, from the blurb...

Clare Balding sets out on a two-wheel odyssey to re-discover Britain from the saddle of a touring cycle.
In a six-part series, Clare follows the wheeltracks of compulsive cyclist and author Harold Briercliffe whose evocative guide books of the late 1940s lovingly describe by-passed Britain - a world of unspoiled villages, cycle touring clubs and sunny B roads.
Carrying a set of Harold's Cycling Touring Guides for company and riding his very own bicycle, Clare embarks on six iconic cycle rides to try and find the world he described - if it's still there.
Her first journey takes Clare to the rugged and beautiful Atlantic coast of north Devon - from Lynmouth, scene of Britain's worst flood disaster in the early 1950s, to Ilfracombe via Little Switzerland, and a hidden silver mine whose riches probably helped England win the Battle of Agincourt

linky...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t4lqf/Britain_by_Bike_North_Devon/

65 is more realistic, easier to deal with on the hill too.

I think the average ratio on the forum is 67.

Is it? asked somebody when i first came on and they said mid 70's?
Mine works out at 77, pretty steep and got to tackle muswell hill daily :/

Also MOAH filth shots if you please..... :D

shiney inside for sure!

actually love the harlequinn colours and tidy paint job too, like the detail with the chrome patchs and dropouts being clean. They'll be someone somewhere will want it!
Would take the ITM forks if my bank was feeling healthier, damn sweet price. Good luck & free bump.

hartxander, yeah thats the one!!!

Both were probably more in shock than anything and didn't really react as they probably normally would. Fuller version hints at what each were thinking, little bit more banter at each other than that version. But yeah, guess it happens quite a bit! Riding wrong way down a street is never good though.

bike is now rolling again, just in time for me to fall off in this shitty weather

Nice to here your back out and riding again! Insurance companies are wankers by definition, its what they are paid to do. With car deals its the same thing, find a real shop quote for like for like (not some internet car supermarket clapped out, smoked in, ex mini cabber - in bike terms) and ignore at least their first 2 offers.
I guess in the end you just went for it and built yourself then produce the receipt to insurance? TBH its probably the quickest way you'll see any money anyway.

Pics of new bike vs. old bike!

Also did you ever catch the driver whodunnit? Being squished by the rear end of a bus or worse, a bendy bus, is probably my greatest riding fear (in london), most of them driving those things are barely qualified to operate a 1.0 nissan micra never mind a 12t volvo.

paperwork. if you were just read rights and then spoken to you will have nothing. If they decided to call it a stop & search you will have a little bit of coloured paper, else get all medieval 'pon their asses.

Sounds like a pretty crappy situation though! Pretty reminiscent of all my close calls in london, not one to do wtih a vehicle (yet), all to do with ped's not watching where they are stepping/launching into the road without a moments thought.

[insert video of messenger riding wrong way whacking into business man crossing without looking youtube video/ can't find it!]
Did it feel like that video? (if you've seen it)

want more 'raped by winter' type photos...........

also filthy bikes, coated in black salt, dirt, grease, mud, dog, evening standards, the works...... Should there be a therad for this particular genre of filth?

Two Geoffrey Butlers, one is called Geoffrey, the other is called Mr Butlertron

been watching an american cartoon that only lasted 1season? ;)

WEEESSSLLLEEEEYYY

if this was holland the letter would read more along the lines of.....

*"Dear All
Its snowing! yay! Everyone finish work early then come out and play snOwball fights in the park. Bring your bikes and we can have epics fun. There might even be time for a little schmoke :p

Bikes in SNO YO!"*

We must learn from them.

fail indeed.
I think I just got excited as it looked like a normal roadie hub and a BB lockring job. Didn't even notice the threads on the other side of the hub. my bad :/

OP: Interested in item, a few questions...

1) will you ship to denmark?
2) is it compatable with continental string?
3) what color is the string? I need the string to be baby or powder blue to match my rig

okthxbye

Wrong.
Track frames have gussets near the seat lug.
Plus beefier seat and down tubes.
Even mine, which is from the 1st generation.

The guys right!
Haven't noticed anything else on giants line up that would fit the description though.unless its some oe random prebuilt, or mauve somethinwe don't get on the uk?

Also used to have a giant mtb in team colours, really distinctive

we went biking with what was meant' to be a fairly decent 'mountain bike ride' up in the mountains, hotel was in the orgaine valley, the village we went to was about 10km up the valley from beardy bransons expensive hotel, cannot remember the name. But anyway, we paid about £60 a piece for a day out, which turned out to be 'ride up a gravel mountain road pass' despite the alitude it was baking hot and my brother was seriously ill with it, so we had to return not even getting a 1/4 of the way up. Gah. Bikes were pap budget 1990's things that were 'rough' to say the least. Guide was a mint fella though.

MILREMO SMALL FLANGE SOLID AXLE HUBS Rear is gear/fixed with 15T sprocket

just out of interest really, how is the cog fixed? Looks like a normal freehub/wheel thread?

27" track 36/40 wheelset
Front is high flange 36h Maillard laced to a 27" x 1 1/4" rim Weinmann, rear is a low flange 40h Airlite fixed/fixed hub laced to a Weinmann rim 27" x 1 1/4" rim, Michelin tyre and tube included on the rear... 50GN

GRRR exactly what I needed for my build. No hope of purchase though I have less funds than Ireland right now :/ + free bump :)