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Thanks rih, but still on the hunt.
Realised that STI or brifter is a must.

Thanks, sending pm

a last, hopeful, bump

cheers

looking to buy a steel mudguard (Gilles Berthoud), but couldn't find yet a 27in (630) specific. Is there such a thing? If not, what's the closest match, 650b or 700c?

Did I see this today at the Old Street roundabout, around 3pm?
Lovely!

or is it Tour d'Italia?

sorry if re, but there's a flying gate going on for £650 BIN!

bump

Raleigh Royal 531 £195 BIN

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Vintage-Raleigh-Royal-1985-Reynolds-531-Frame-Forks-Exceptional-Condition-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/72wAAMXQlgtRozeu/$T2eC16ZHJHoE9n3Kft0kBRozetorLQ~~60_58.JPG

Hi Vince, thanks for that but yes, wanted something a tad more practical than that. Don't mind 650B, but need more gears, possibility for STI, etc.

Thanks again.

Hi there, looking for a small tourer with cantis. Can be built or frame.
Cheers.

sure, donation goes without saying (at least for me, pretty dodgy to not donate when selling here). Price negotiable — as is on ebay to be honest, one can always submit an offer.

I'll close the thread then, don't want to create problems.

It's on ebay here, but being a camera instead of bike stuff I wonder if it's ok? If people get crossed that this is selling elsewhere let me know and I take this down.

Cheers.

and will be a bike by the end of play this week end.

let's have a look at it, then!

too many variables - could be a foot varus, weakness in a muscle, old injury, hip or spine alignment, different degree of flexibility...

yes, I know, it's useless to try and speculate on stuff like this.
It's just so annoying.

My left knee is fucked. could hardly move my leg on friday night and saturday.

I thought the pain was orignally just a little thing, nothing to worry about. This is worse. Scarey worse.

Same here. I was wondering, if both my legs are the same measurement (they are), and the right knee is okay after riding for 4 hours, but the left is fucked, does this mean that there's a smaller chance the problem is on the bike fit?

I know, depends, go see Scherrit (I will), etc, but just wondering anyway. Hope you feel better soon.

that just looks written in a font called Brush Script:

I'll probably be the only one with a bad story this weekend, then: my left knee is playing tricks on me since a few weeks ago. I'm alone at home this weekend and doing nothing would drive me nuts so decided to go out yesterday anyway, ride to Southend and see the sea. 10k in and the knee starts feeling uncomfortable, 15k in and it's a sharp pain that I think I can manage if I cycle rubbing the thighs against the top tube. After a while I'm convinced that the pain plateaued and as long as it stays like that I can carry on. In truth it was getting much worse but I just thought it was the same. I got to Langdon Hills through the old church road, but I had no way to put any power down and had to resort to a soul destroying walk up the lane. Decided to stop at the pub for lunch and then tried to carry on, thinking it'd be mostly downhill to the sea and I could coast a bit more. My average speed was so incredibly low that I didn't even think of it as training, and I was so far from having any sort of fun that it wasn't a leisurely ride in the country as well. It was just bollocks, really, and after a bit more of riding I had to stop because I was in so much pain that I was actually scared. Maybe this is normal for hard riders or something, but it was a complete revelation for me when my leg decided to not obey my brain at all. When I stopped the bike, I mentalised the action of my left foot rotating on the pedals, unclicking, and planting itself on the ground, but nothing happened. Foot stayed frozen, playing dead. I ordered again but nothing. So I kind of forced it to unclick and step down and when it did I had to let go a scream, and I realised my leg couldn't withstand me standing up. It was incredible, really. The problem is that at this stage I only had 12k left, and if I wanted to reach a train station it'd be at least 6k from there anyway. So I definitely wouldn't go back home without seeing the sea, and after a good 15min of despair, deep breathing, stretching, carefully understanding what movements I could and couldn't do, I climbed back and slowly went off to bloody Southend. I eventually got there, after having to stop once again, had a glimpse of the sea but didn't bother trying to enjoy it, went to Boots instead to buy painkillers, climbed on the train, back home. Cycling from Fenchurch St to home was somehow deleted from my memory.

I forgot to take a finished picture, I don't have a camera at home to do it soon but it'll come eventually. I've been riding it single speed through the winter and it's pretty much what I wanted. The frame is better than I could expect, but the cheap fork lets it down, so maybe it'd be worth upgrading for a proper light one in the future. Anyway, I thought it'd be a useful reference if I listed the costs.

With a bit of luck this will end up at £250

Oh well. Even though the parts are cheap beater stuff, my lack of patience made me go for new stuff. Also I had a fair amount of it 'lying around' but I tracked back how much I paid for it originally and included here.

Part .................... Brand .............................. Source .................... Price

Frame ................. Viscount ........................... lfgss ....................... £50
Fork .................... Generic Steel ................... eBay ...................... £12
Wheels ................ Open Pro / Planet X hubs . lfgss ....................... £80
Tyres ................... Marathon Plus ................. JMJ ........................ £42
Rim Tape ............. Generic ........................... LBS ........................ £2
Inner Tube ........... Schwalbe ......................... LBS ........................ £17
Mudguards .......... SKS ................................. Spa Cycles .............. £27
BB........................ Shimano .......................... Chain Reaction ....... £14
Freewheel ............ Shimano .......................... LBS ....................... £20
Sprocket .............. Generic ............................ LBS ....................... £11
Lock Ring ............. Mavic .............................. Chain Reaction ....... £8
Cranks ................. Spa Cycles XD-2 .............. Spa Cycles ............. £20
Chainring ............. Stronglight Dural ............... Spa Cycles ............. £14
Pedals ................. Wellgo 964 ....................... Chain Reaction ....... £15
Clips .................... Evans .............................. Evans ..................... £15
Straps ................ Evans .............................. Evans ..................... £9
Calipers ............... Alhonga Long Drop ........... Spa Cycles .............. £21
Levers ................. Generic MTB, used ........... Bike Kitchen ............ £5
Headset ............... Miche .............................. Spa Cycles .............. £23
Stem ................... Kusuki .............................. lfgss ....................... £10
Bars .................... Generic North Rd .............. Push ...................... £15
Seat Post ............. Generic ............................ eBay ...................... £7
Saddle ................. Cinelli Unicanitor ............... Chain Reaction ....... £25
Cabling .......................................................... Bike Kitchen ........... £8

Extras
Calipers ............... Tektro short, didn't fit ........ lfgss ....................... £5
BB ...................... Assorted spindles+cups ..... eBay ...................... £8
Welding to remove stuck BB cup .................................................... £10

Which totals £470, plus £23 of unused stuff. I made my calculations as I was typing, so forgive me if I feel seriously depressed now. What an idiot.

Taking the frame out, I spent an average of £18 per component. Is not so bad, but at the same time is quite bad because I end up with plenty budget parts on a £450+ bike. Now I'll spend the rest of the day sulking over what I could have bought with this money.

unfortunately the ones I saw in Japan were made in Taiwan, iirc

Mainly because for some reason they use standard geometry on the taller Bob Jackson with little altercation to reduced the flex, even Jammy found out the hard way and sold it almost straight away.

There was a huge article by Zinn who's pretty much the person to go to when it come to taller rider, the bigger a normal geo bicycle become, the more it no longer a triangle but a square.

thanks

especially the Bob Jackson

why? (not in an orly way, more like legitimate curiosity)

i wrapped a bike already, amateur effort but thought the result was pretty encouraging. Used a hairdryer and a scalpel, took me a whole weekend but was good fun.

pros:

— keeps the original paint intact, if you're careful
— if one area is scratched, you can just replace that panel
— it's quite easy to play with designs, if that's your thing

cons:

— lugs can be done with a bit of patience, but braze-ons and dropouts are almost a guaranteed no-no
— colours are somewhat limited (that being said, most of the colours look great on vinyl)

Something like this, basically, but in the right colour if it can be found (another impossible quest for you).