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rkn:Is it just me who finds the on-one site really hard to use?

That's a pet hate of mine, the vast majority of cycling shop websites are bordering on impossible to use.

I'm sure there's a killing to be made if someone could just make a really intuitive front-end with nice pictures and all of the technical information on products. A prettier Harris Cyclery or something.

Sounds like the way to upgrade... next thing is the frame and fork ;)

Stronglights look a bargain too:
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/details.asp?D=P&Cat=CRANKSETS&Section=CRAT&GenCode=STROCRAT0200

Not quite that cheap, but the Miche Primato Pista cranks aren't bad looking for £90

Looks similar to the Shimano Dura-Ace ones too that are over twice that price.

You'd need a BB for it though, so that bumps it way above the Sugino price you've got already.

Yeah, but that's because the rock in the late 80's was dire ;)

Tubs, quite an expensive jump when you're already running clinchers. I want to find out what difference it makes without having to outlay for new wheels or go through the glueing stage.

I might just ask Cycle Fit to loan me some tubbies to ride on my geared bike for a while, I'm sure they can be talked into it.

It's moved. It's no longer down in Soho, now it's underneath and at the back of Centre Point... up the back of Hanway St.

I think it's still a Rock pub with some Goths in attendance. Don't all the Goths just hang out at Garlic and Shots in Soho?

I like the mid-life crisis bike. You go camping on that?

Ah, If I can just get the wife into the idea of touring. Even just buggering off down to Cornwall would be gorgeous. A train to take you down there, and then just amble along the coast.

Sam Smiths... that's where cheap and West End come together.

There's one called The Angel behind Centre Point just down from the Intrepid Fox.

The Intrepid Fox is worth considering too, always a few messenger bikes chained up there, must have some advantage to it.

The church between the two offers the perfect place to chain your bike up too.

Tickets are £12 for adults, £6 for kids, and there's a £30 family saver thing (2 adults plus one or more children).

Available on the door according to mickster above who's working there on the day.

Lots of places to lock bikes apparently, so I'll be riding down from Kew Bridge if you're this neck of the woods.

I have no idea on catering, I'm going to bring a flask of pasta and a little vodka and water :)

You have no excuse then, see you there.

Has anyone tried the Tufo Tubular Clinchers?
http://www.tufonorthamerica.com/tires/lite.php?seriesid=5

Momentum:One of my friends is thinking of going there and back on a bike (with gears) so I'm thinking (even more idly) of doing that with a flip flop hub.

We tried this last year and made the mistake of going back via the South Downs. Get him to check hills on the route back ;)

Annelise!

Computers and programming, lots of music stuff, drinking vodka, and eating out with my wife. Not in that order.

Yeah, that's answered it all quite comprehensively. I'll pop into Condor tomorrow. I tried Cyclopaedia in Kensington but they only have mountain bikes and commuter things in there and he didn't know if the locknuts were available on their own.

Thanks for the advice :)

Riding through Hyde Park earlier, felt and heard something crack around the rear wheel.

So I stop and remove the wheel to have a look at the seat stays properly (not knowing what else might crack), and one of the axle nuts just fell off the bike, in two pieces!

That's the bit I lost, it's the inside nut that goes against the seat stay. It was literally in two pieces so I left it in a bin in Hyde Park. I flipped back to the free-wheel for the rest of the way home, being careful not to exert any significant pressure on the drive train for fear that the wheel would move.

All I've done for a quick fix is tighten the outer bolt down, so that the stay is now against the inside washer.

Is this part something that Condor would actually sell? Or is it a case of finding someone with an old hub and seeing if I can beg it off them?

McGlynn's near Kings Cross wasn't bad, and there was a good fence for chaining bikes.

No beer garden though.

Fun stuff... motor pacers return to Herne Hill for the Good Friday Meet:

http://www.londoncyclesport.com/news/article/mps/UAN/1917/v/1/sp/

Software Programmer, I still wonder just how this came about. All my experience suggested I would be in the music industry forever, but then I managed to stumble free and land a job at BT writing web portals. Moved on to writing football sites and porn sites before settling into working for THE MAN.

On the side I have a server full of things I like, from music clubs, to music forums, to cycling forums. If I have to know the stuff I do, I might as well put it to use making myself and others happy.

Oooh, the Eclypse is quite nice, and for the price a bargain:

I think my steerer is 1". Damn, now I want to take it apart and check.

I'm definitely going to be there on Thursday.

Afterwards I'm off clubbing and drinking in Brixton to this place should anyone like the music and want to join me (in bike gear, sod changing just to drink and dance):
How Does It Feel

It's usually on Fridays, but because of the bank holiday it's a Thursday shindig instead.

After a winter of miserable greyness, shit-loads (actual unit of measurement) of wind, and a few fun days of slippery snow... Spring has arrived!

Well, it's arrived enough that sitting in this office overlooking Bloomsbury Street, and glancing over to the other side of the room where my bike is standing... I'm not getting much work done.

I don't envy messengers their low wage, but on days like this I envy their working outside on a bike. Could I do it? No, never... I'd miss the money that allows me to splash out on some stupid and pointless bike purchase. But on days like these I wish whatever job I had involved riding around London at full pelt.

I know an ex-messenger who's doing some work for TfL at the moment, riding all of the cycle routes and noting the condition of them, the sign-posting, the difficulty in following them, the obstacles. That I could do. That would be a blast. Except I know it's really a process of riding 10m, stopping and noting something else, riding a bit more, noting that.

If I were a little healthier (I have a cold) I'd throw a sickie. But I hate to waste them on actually being ill.

Don't tell me yet! I haven't watched the last bit of it yet!

Ah fuck it... spoil away, the guys at work will just tell me anyway.

But yeah, sucks big time that one of the few things we're absolutely ace at we get very little press for. If it were given more exposure it might even help encourage some more kids to investigate Herne Hill on a Saturday morning or other athletes to switch sports (Romero did an incredible job for only having spent a year in the saddle).

The alter's are garish I know. But the Thomson is hardly elegant. If I can't have a nice classic and under-stated quill stem I'll go the opposite route and get the loud stem.

I looked at this one on Hubjub:

It's nice, but I can't justify £70 on it when I can get an Alter off eBay for £15 (via my girl picking it up in the US and bringing it back).