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If you can pay monthly I might for just for March until the end of the Vuelta or something like that

Mine just says --9 GBP. Not sure whether that £9 or £0.09. Guess well see. I'd have said it should be £9 or there abouts

That fucking straw!

worrying that a bike shop thinks it is from '1970ish', when 853 didn't come out until 1995.

Also, its a 58cm frame, so not small at all really

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Anyone have any advice on fixing this? It's a 1958 JRJ/Bob Jackson frame. I spoke to Winston Vaz about it but he said he wouldn't re-braze it as he couldn't guarantee it that way, and it was complicated than simply fitting new track ends as it has pencil stays that wouldn't match new ends.
I wondered if maybe it could be sleeved somehow or if someone has a stock of these old track ends somewhere stashed away that could refitted? All depends on cost etc of course as the frame is nice, but not original paint etc so it's whether it's worth it....

Oh yes, I've met Clyde. Good idea. Will give it a try. It happens a lot but yesterday evening was spectacularly bad, I saw 5 cars at least parked/stopped blocking just side of Lea Bridge. Seems to be creeping up a again and getting worse by the week

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Lea bridge roads full of arseholes as usual. All sorts of idiots parked in the cycle path. Anyway to report these in particular?

I don't have an ASC anymore and to be honest I wouldn't recommend one. They are novel for a but but I found mine finickity to set up and keep working. The feeling of immediacy you get from riding fixed is lost due to the noticeable lag when pedalling also. Much better to ride a genuine fixed gear or a time trial type sturmey if your after something unusual, such as an AC close ratio or AM medium ratio. The AM is meant to be a great hub. I have one but it is currently in bits....

I prefer how it looks with that crank set up actually

You commute backwards as it were?
That must make the roads quieter at least.

Oh to live close enough to be able to walk to work...

Took the baby seat off the 3 speed baby carrying Ellis Briggs this week for commutes, due to a loose crank on the 50s road/track that's been in use recently

Gave the wall a paint with the Jewson silicon waterproofer this morning and all seems good. The damp part of the plaster took it okay so all should be good with just that I think. Will see how it feels in 24/35hours when fully dry and soaked into the wall-if it works it should stop any plaster crumbling if memory serves as well as stopping the damp.

I though it sounded a bit drastic too, it was just my dad ( ex engineer/builder) mentioned it so I figured it would be worth looking into.

You mean hack the old plaster off? That would work except I need the cupboard I'm building under there to be good and clean for kitchen storage etc, so it really need boarding out with something. The point of adding the insulation board was really just because I thought it preferable to add it than not as warmer house=lower bills, better for us living there and better for the environment. The damp really is not too bad, I can just see/feel it's been there that's all. The wall was packed front to back with boxes until today, so breathability of that wall in the last 12 months will have been f-all, which prob helped cause the damp to show.

It's just above ground level, maybe a foot and a bit up, outside looks sound, but that side of the house gets no sun as in-between houses, and all the plaster on the inside is a mess as apparently when the houses were built it was plastered mid winter, and in a hurry ( were taking 1950s here, so some of the materials were a bit 'experimental'. Condensation was a right fucker last winter, but the loft is much better insulated now, the radiators are better,
and the rest is getting plastered too so that should help with warmth and I'm retrofitting trickle vents in some windows too so that should help with breathability etc. The house had next to no proper upkeep for the last few years, so I will repoint that wall in summer as some other areas need it. I've used the Jewson's silicon damp proof stuff before on a similar age building ( 50s council flat) and it worked a treat

I'm boarding out the inside of my understairs cupboard next week. The exterior wall currently just has some shutty old blown plaster and one patch has a tiny bit of damp, as does the concrete floor- not much, just enough to send a cardboard box a bit mouldy over the course if a year. I have some Jewson silicon wall sealer for exterior masonry that you paint in and it permeates the brick to water tight it, and my dad reckons I should paint it with that black bitumen type paint as well. I then plan to batten out the wall, add some cavity wall insulation board such as kingspan ( leaving a few mm for an air gap) then board it out with 12mm ply or OSB.

Questions are; is it worth using the black bitumen type paint as well as the other or is this likely to cause probs with the bricks rotting in future etc?, and what type/depth of kingspan should I use on the exterior wall ( bearing in mind I don't want to loose to much storage space under there?
The whole thing is a bit of a dry run for doing similar in my garage next year in order to turn it into a studio/workshop/utility room, so I'd like to get it right this here first.
Any wisdom anyone? Cheers

Yeh, saw the stuff Mario's workshop, some really nice frame. Some lovely stuff downstairs in Winston's workshop too, casually lent around!,

Also, if anyone has a ready built alloy rimmed 27 1 1/4 rear wheel they are willing to sell for a reasonable price, ideally with a 50s hub, let me know, the rim got a flat spot bent into it as well so need to replace the wheel

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Went to pick up the Gillott frame from Varhona today. As the frame has already been modified in the past I decided to get two newer style dropouts fitted which will hopefully be stronger- they are later Campag style ones as opposed to period correct gran sport dropouts. The original 'Stallard' dropouts are not available anymore I obviously, and the chances of finding some on eBay seemed slim so this seemed the best option to get a good match and a strong rear triangle.

Just need to straighten out the Gran Sport rear mech now, which also took a hammering in the 'incident'.

Though brailsford had moved aside and was rumoured to be on his way to sort out Man Utd?

Lovely all original paint Hobbs Barbican in Kent to collect. Please someone remove the temptation from me
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166441998730?