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^First offence? Is possession of offensive audio equipment criminal? It should be.

Great to be back on the bike for the coastal commute after 2 weeks of stupid crash/minced hand/can't grip bars induced idleness. Considerate drivers, no kamikaze peds, flat calm, sunny. Was it just a dream?

I agree with Odonata for once, this is another excuse to post my latest bike!

I have no chance of beating my PBs (short 22, long 55) set on long-dead dragstrips in my last 'proper' racing season 15 years ago, but I'm going to have fun finding out how fast I can go. My previous PBs were similar, but set in '82 on spokey wheels and upturned Cinelli 66s.

Time to set some new targets.....

^Someone buy it ferchrissakes!

TT fixed completed.

^Nope, it's a stayers bike for riding behind big motors, you can see the reversed fork.

Nope not ridden yet, only finished two days ago plus crash injury/crap weather/random excuses....

It may well be fast, but probably not with me on it. I might put up some pictures of the maiden voyage next week and await the Internet bikefit and howls of derision!

Raltech covers over my dead body, trispokes were good enough for Obree. Besides, I can always use my disk-shod geared TT bike in the unlikely occurrence of a perfect day.

With my immaculate manicure? Oh no missus!

^If you're wondering why, there is no sidewards force on a track chain (unless you've screwed up the chainline), there is plenty of sidewards force on any geared chain.

You can also free up a stiff link by shoving a screwdriver through the link and giving it a wiggle.

^I'll take the wheels if splitting, anyone got a furnace for the rest?

Really liked Walter Mitty, the original with Danny Kaye....

Yer 'tiz.

Four chopsticks through inner tube and stretch over end of bar, remove two and use the remaining two to wriggle the tube along the bar. It works, eventually....

Full build photos in an hour or two!

I'll buy the cans, video please!

Dads bike, utterly original, nut and bolt rebuilt last year. 'Nuff said....

The £18.60 (incl postage) in-line seatpost has finally arrived, I think it stopped off for a holiday in Tierra del Fuego on the way. With 3" cut off it still extends an inch or so below the top tube, so I should finally be able to ride the bike without fear of castration.

Hopefully pictures tomorrow.

*Wicker seat £30 from Hastings antique (junk) shop.

Whatever YOU choose will be wrong, Hippy, you ride a bike properly and therefore know nothing about how to build one for others to gawp at.

On the bright side, just received my £18.60 200g in-line seatpin from Sayyoulluseme (yes, really!) and it seems robust enough and is well finished. At that price I probably deserve to have it explode and ream my butt with splinters.

Hurrah for us!

Goddammit

Dammit is no god.

the levee has broken..

Levee fixed, flood avoided (except of vitriol)!

Check out the spoking on the front hub....

Things are happening in Catford? Really? I lived much of my childhood in the area, it would be great to find that is true!

Lovely Argos, please tell me it isn't the one you were going to put my old Angels on. Australian picture?

Take a selfie and send it to all your vague acquaintances who are baristas.

Wanted: pictures of Scillys blue-treaded past for blackmail purposes.

Awaiting Tester with precise details of lost Wattage.....

So vintage, latin script, much death.