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Ah nice one :)

Black Brooklyn with fluro orange forks.

You get V1 or painted the V2?

Awesome :) Love the colour.

Yeah that's the one.

Not sure what's going on with this. Its like the rusty water has shot out of the fork.

Spotted this a couple of times now

I like it. What is the fork?

Pretty quite commute in this morning, though there was some sort of gridlock around Kings Cross.

Did see one guy going down greys inn road, squashing his bike helmet onto his head. It was clearly unclipped and didn't look like the clips were broken. I confess I did think about tipping the back of it as I rode past, but that would be bad so I didn't.

^ Yeah this.

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^^^^ The lock rings that come with those hubs are really shit and have heard of lots breaking in just that way.

I use Paul and DA lock rings now and tighten them up just a little less than 'really fucking tight' and haven't had a problem.

Glad I'm not the only one they've broken on. Though it sucks they break.

Got the DA ring on tonight, been for a blast and seems solid now. Will consider changing the hub once I get some spare cash.

So basically generic shit isn't worth the metal it's forged out of?

Not in my experience :(

Theyre still going, I think the Japanese market alone keeps them pretty busy, guess they just didnt pay the hosting

Good stuff :)

I was just looking around at some of the japanese sites. They seem to have loads of different BMW stuff, some really nice looking frames.

I check http://www.brooklynmachineworks.com/ every so often to see if the new site has launched, but it now appears to be totally down.

Wonder if they've just not paid the hosting, or can't be bothered with a website, or something else...

Good to know, thanks :)

Was the cog on properly tight before you tightened the lockring? Also I don't think you want any a part to be 'as tight as possible'.

Yeah it was. At least it wasn't moving and more after going up the hill pretty hard.

Normally I use a torque wrench for all of the parts, but the lockring was one part I'd thought needed to be really tight on.

I've got an On-One high flange rear hub which I believe is a rebranded novatec.

After building the wheels and fitting the cog, it slipped a bit. So I hit a hill hard and tightened the lockring at the top. All seemed fine.

A few days later the cog slipped again on my way to work. I was pretty close to the office so I continued, taking it easy. Bought a lockring tool and tightened it up. It got real tight, then loose and fell into two pieces. Not sure what it was made of, but there were some cracks on it around the notches where the tool grips.

The hub is fixed-fixed, so I grabbed the ring from the other side and noticed that it has torque values on it. I wasn't following these values as I'd always thought I wanted the lockring as tight as possible.

I've just went out and bought some dura ace lockring, which I notice have no torque values on them. I'm going to tighten this one as much as I can.

I've never had any problems like this on my Brooklyn, which has a Paul hub on the rear. Is tightening up the lockring as tight as possible not the right approach, or does it sound like the on-one lockring was basically made of cheese.

Just had my bike stolen on the 23:43 train between Slough and Ealing Broadway

Has black deep V's now. Not likely a bike you'd ever find in the UK either

Brazen buggers, I'll give them that. I had my head down working on my laptop and it was just behind me in the vestibule.

That sucks. I've always been a bit worried about this and end up standing up next to my bike any time it's on a train.

Spotted this at the Tour De France fan park at Canary Wharf.

Hard to see on the poor photo, but it was setup single speed:

Original - http://i.imgur.com/LihZwsR.jpg

Pulling away from some lights last night, the left hand lane is left only, right hand is straight on. I'm going straight. Almost clear of the junction and check right shoulder then left to see whats going on. The car behind giving plenty of space. I start to move to the left hand lane when a guy on a scooter comes flying up it, he's obviously decided that he'll go straight on, or he's come out of the traffic. I don't know. I abort my move and he flys past leaning on his horn. He got pant shittingly close. Then he weaves through the traffic into the right hand lane and darts over the road and down a side lane to avoid a red.

My set arrived this morning.

Looking great. Thanks for sorting this out :)

Cheers :)

I don't think I had an address on the paypal payment so I've dropped a PM with details.

Poor quality photo but I've finally got this 14bikeco 14r on the road and I'm loving it.

I need to get some shorter chainring bolts and once I've got some cash I'll change the seatpost.

Someone on what looked to be a black leader. Flying down parkhurst road. No DAS as you were already skidding like a madman.

The kids at home :)

Such a teasing shot of the Park Bike in the background, love to see more of that one.

Loving this colour. Bet it's fun to ride too :)