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Persona doesn't seem to work on my Blackberry Z10 :( so I can't login from there. Shoot!

Also tried to upload an image via the iPhone and it all worked fine until I hit the send button. It tried, but after a while it came back to me with a generic error.

Two mobile man eh?

#BoastPost

Only two ? :) I work on them, so yeah I got many.

These are two of my favourite pictures I took of it:

and

I used simple stuff you use to clean the kitchen. A dirt remover. Worked a threat and easy. In the end it was just that, dirt.

It rides beautifully and comfortable, but fast if I want it to, albeit didn't go fast for long yet as I need to calibrate the brakes and possibly get Koolstop pads.

I tried to level the handlebars, are they not?

Persona doesn't seem to work on my Blackberry Z10 :( so I can't login from there. Shoot!

Also tried to upload an image via the iPhone and it all worked fine until I hit the send button. It tried, but after a while it came back to me with a generic error.

Last pictures. Will post more if there are changes to the bike.

Thanks for all your input people!

@hippy said

Highlight the text when you click "Reply" and it will quote.

Gmail works like that and I don't see why we shouldn't be replying?

So how much for the frameset ?

I got logged out too, but then when I reconnected I was asked how long my session should be: just this or a whole month. I suppose I'll get logged out in a month again

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but here you can find and download over 100s research papers on cycling (free until end of August)

http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/cycling

re: quote.

Doesn't seem to work here too, Firefox latest on Mac. Is this a Chrome specific thing?
Nope, just tried on Chrome and hitting reply under a message doesn't seem to quote (unless it'll do when I hit Post reply)

Nope, it doesn't.

Re-posting after the LFGSS move to Microcosm.

Got a Brooks B17 saddle as I found the Rolls surprisingly uncomfortable (on the contrary, the white Ergo Rolls is very comfy, even if they look the same.)
The Rolls looked MUCH better on the bike though :(

Also managed to find Golden Arrow wheelset with all the bits and in great conditions (yeeee!), so the old ones are now spares in case of issues.

Zoom in (real dimensions: 1024 x 768)

I also managed to clean the brake hoods, but haven't taken a full picture of the bike with them, but on my flickr album you can see the before and after:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/anidel/sets/72157643692675805/

Below a list of the components as it is now:

= Shimano 105 Golden Arrow full groupset (excluding the bottom bracket, pedals and brake levers) comprising:

• Downtube shifters
  
• Headset
  
• Rear / Front brakes (nutted)
  
• Rear / Front hubs with oil cups and skewers
  
• Rear / Front derailleurs
  
• Crankset (non fluted)
  (I do have the GA bottom bracket and pedals)
  
  

= YST threadless bottom bracket
= White Shimano 105 brake levers
= Lyotard 460D Pedals
= Christophe steel toe clips
= Christophe leather straps
= Allez! pump
= Unknown rims, spokes and cassette
= Brooks B17 black leather saddle
= Campagnolo rear dropout adjuster screws
= Campagnolo Record seat post bolt
= White Campagnolo brake cables
= Kalloy fluted 27.2mm seat post
= GB steam
= Unknown handlebars
= Ping bell
= Scwhalbe Marathon Supreme 35x700c tyres
= KMC Z7 grey 7-8 speed chain
= Cinelli black cork tape

So we lost the list of the "following" threads?
Unless the Following link only shows the ones with updates?

Buy a 2nd hand ss or fixed wheel

Try it for size

If you don't like it sell it on

That has meant I have some stuff to sell that is sitting in my garage for the lucky combination of moon and sun to line up properly in order to slightly increase my chance of selling :( :/

You only need a tensioner if you have vertical dropouts, and can't move the wheel to tension the chain.

You should be able to get a reasonable gear *and *a reasonable chainline, by trying both positions for the ring on the cranks and seeing what gear they line up with.

Certainly good enough to see if you like it.

Yep, the frame I'm planning to use for SS has horizontal dropouts so I can move the wheel to tension the chain.

As above, I will try with my geared bikes a few combinations rear/front and will use what I have to build a SS.

If I decide to go SS then I'll probably get a flip-flop one anyway as 1) the cassette/freewheel is designed to help shifting, and don't want risk it shifting alone and 2) the wheels I have have an Helicomatic hub, for which I doubt I'd be able to find a suitable conversion kit I suppose...

You won't be able to ride fixed or have a coaster with a tensioner so it will just be like not changing gear as you ride. Pick a comfortable gear and ride in it all day, if you can do that and find it nice then single speed could be for you. Beyond that is just a less full handlebar and maybe different style brake levers+bars it should feel the same.

That is also true. Stupid me about not thinking about that! I guess I was only looking at the 'look' of it in order for my brain to 'switch' I'm on a SS.

But yeah, I do usually ride always on the same gear, but I think I will need to switch to a 'faster' one as the one I'm using now, it's for 'easy' commute and translates to spinning harder to go faster.

But yeah. Will try some combinations and try to ride on those for longer periods.

I understand, but is just a quick 'test' for me to see if I'd like it or not.

Found a few posts by using "freewheel conversion" or "cassette conversion".

Reading...

Hi there,

building up a bike, but would like to try it as single speed first. That means I don't want to spend money on flip-flop or Fixed or SS rear wheel or even on a SS/Fixed cassette/freehub.

So was thinking of using the cassette I've got on the rear wheel and the crankset as a SS setup and was wondering what should I look for in terms of possible issues in the short/medium/long term.

Possibly the chain will never have a proper straight chainline, but will that be an issue?

Will this make things more complicated in terms of chain length / teeth (front and read) number?

Thanks!

ps: I am sure it's a topic which as been discussed already, but can't think of what to search for to find the threads!!

Funnily enough I saw a Peugeot Professional yesterday parked in Richmond-upon-Thames (grey rather than red).
Great bikes!

There's seems to be very little about steel Cinelli Unica bikes around the interweb. Found these two great purple ones:

A fixie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/18884139@N00/sets/72157635491849415

and on Velospace (mentioning the flickr set above):

http://velospace.org/node/36838

Plus this guys who seems to be in love with Cinelli, but also has no info about steel Unicas:

http://cinellionly.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/cinelli-unica.html

Oh no! I will be more productive tomorrow then :((

AFAIK there's no Shimano 600 Golden Arrow.
This group set looks like a mix of Shimano 105 Golden Arrow (brake set) and Shimano 600 Arabesque (the rest) except for the gear levers which are Campy.

Overall a great bike though!

so, as I understand it, the layout will be different?

Bit of playing around with the new unknown stem I just got in the mail

(crappy phone picture)

Got also a pair of Lyotard pedals in almost NOS conditions.

It looks like a hole because of the bg, the raw material underneath is in similar color, but it doesn't look like one to me (also because it'd have the very same shape on the other side, which would have been real weird)
Also you could see in second picture that that side is just perfect.