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Thanks guys....

Hi guys, Just to let you know that they don't fit!

Koolstop's site says: "These will fit most Shimano® type brake systems"
But the sleeve nut does not pass through the slot in the caliper... :(

I could mill/file/drill it out I suppose...
Or could I safely just use an M5 locknut on the end of the post thing?

I have a pair of Shimano M424 pedals like these:

Not many miles on them, so bearings are fine, some slight scuffing to the nylon bits..
.....£15.00 +£2.00 for the postie
http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p145/wakou/Specialized%20Tricross%20Sport%20Triple/PD-M424%20Pedals/

I can totally understand that. Some of those pictures are heartbreaking, but no more so than some of the sights you see on certain estates.

I suppose what's really painful about Hine's work is that it documents the norm rather than the exception. For each one of those photographs there were thousands, tens of thousands who went unnoticed. In a way, rather than being a 'lost childhood' it is simply what childhood used to be. Hard, exhausting, mind numbingly dull.
Modern society has many, many flaws but one of it's greatest achievements is giving a 'proper' childhood to the majority of children.

+1 to this guys..

This is a picture by Lewis Hine and is of Child labour so is not really cool at all google Lewis Hine to get the full story

So it is, and thanks for the heads-up... some more of Hines' work here:
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
An interesting portrait of 'The American Dream'...
I still think the little lad is 'Cool as Fuck' though

Hi guys, there is an 11 year old lad at the local cycle club, he loves his cycling. For his birthday he got a 'road' bike, it IIRC is like this..

Problem is he does not like the thumb shifters which are mounted on the bar flats up by the stem... I rashly said that I would try to find a better alternative... But after some googling about it seems that 7 speed Brifters are like hen's teeth, and even if you find a pair, they cost about the same as the whole bike did..... Could I make this into an 8 speed? Or would bar ends do the job? Anyone have an old pair knocking about the shed? (or even just a RH Brifter?, I could leave the LH as it is with the thumb shifter).. Any advice or suggestions welcome..

I don't see what the fuss is about, their stuff is not expensive, IMHO:

http://www.cyclingequip.com/cycling-equipment/rapha.html

:)

http://www.cyclingequip.com/cycling-equipment/rapha.html

Watching it on Ebay.. He had it reserved @ £150.00, and it has made the reserve!

What time is kick off?

Thanks dicki, it is a Specialized Roubaix, 2008...

Hi I have found for sale a frame in my size, I would like to buy it but there are some big paint chips, are these merely cosmetic, or more serious?

You do realise that "a bit of gardening" is a euphemism for bum sex?

Yep, and the bike was that nice, I'd still take his place!

I still have nightmares, I was walking down a busy street, saw a bike outside a shop, I crossed the road to have a closer look. It was love at first sight!! A competition standard CX bike, Full Dura-Ace Groupset, Mavic Krysium Elite wheels. My size. Beautiful. Gorgeous. Lock strategy? Cheapo cable through QR front wheel. I waited outside to see the bellend who owned this object of lustful desire, and who plainly didn't deserve it. ....
After 10 minutes or so, came this little old fellow, about seventy years old. Dressed in MTB shorts, Oakley's, SPD shoes. I explained that my bike was nearby, and I could have gone and got my front wheel and ridden his £3,000 beauty away in about 20 seconds. He explained that he 'did a bit of gardening' for a pro coach, and that when he got a bike stolen, he just went to see this coach, who let him choose another one from the many that sponsors gave him on a regular basis.
I must get the phone number of this coach. I would do a lot more than 'a bit of gardening' for an endless supply of bikes like that!
I saw the same bike a couple of months later. Outside a shop. NO LOCK AT ALL!

Eeek it is VERY windy here in Essex today... (scared)

tut tut! i'll pm you the url :)

Thanks, but even I sleep sometimes... :)

^ Correct.

BTW - when you paid, did you not see a page of instructions/acknowledgement on our website?

Hmm I might have been slightly drunk (Dutch courage!) so I don't recall.... :)

Dear Stephen Parry,

You sent a payment of 20.00 GBP to Southwark Cyclists (treasurer@southwarkcyclists.org.uk)

(19/05/2012, 03:00 AM in the morning!! = Deffo slightly drunk!

Hi missmouse Could you confirm that all I need to do is take a printout of the paypal receipt to the start? I am worried that I will get there and draw a blank..

Linky no worky

Fixed now..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mrspurnell2010/m.html?item=330742460735&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AGB%3A1123&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2562

Sorry about that, fixed now..

Someone seems to have come across a job-lot of Specialized forks, also some carbon seatposts... Not silly cheap, but might be handy if someone on here has crashed...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mrspurnell2010/m.html?item=330742460735&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AGB%3A1123&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2562