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You know what I'd like... magentic allen key chunks.

As in... you drop them into allen nuts and bolts, and they stick their using magnetism.

They'd seal up the nut or bolt, making carrying just an allen key useless.

To remove the thing, you just need a stronger magnet.

I just think that aside from making things lovely and smooth, it also makes it immune from opportunist theives.

Of course, the other option is superglue and a ball-bearing.

Feck... I missed it because I finally looked up from my desk and asked what time it was, just to be told 6.05pm and I was still on a conference call.

Why can't America just take a freaking holiday for a day and appreciate that we brits knock off early before a long weekend. Sods!

There's really four fixed gear forums:
San Francisco, New York, Chicago and LA.

I'd say in that order too.

I hope London will very soon be the fifth. Just because it will give us all even more socialising, blasting around, and having a great time.

There are other forums, but it's about vibe, influence, mayhem. Large cities with a unique style really do the fixed gear thing in their own way. I have a feeling we're all a bit more reserved about the wild fashion, and are likely just to get drunk and ride ;)

Strangely, I happen to host the Chicago forum. These forums aren't entirely free things, but thankfully I happen to have chunks of server hardware laying around with enough spare capacity to run these things without noticing.

As for which is best? I loved the Chicago one, but London is where I am and my home, and the thing that makes these way better than bikeforums, or whatever... is simply that the stuff in them is local.

They're all linked to from the links page, or from this:
http://www.fixedgearforums.com/

I run that too.

Cranky, the word fisting comes to mind. And that is not a bad thing.

I'm paying about £25 for my Phil Wood sprocks... but this is duty and postage free as my wife brings them over from the US for me.

Jesus... some of those guys have camel toes.

I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

It's the bianchi in the background... honest.

White is the colour that most reveals genitals... this is a fact.

So why on earth make your skin suits out of it!?

Well, this flask was free with Glenmorangie... I'm usually a Bowmore drinker, but this will do for now.

I don't know, he could start by taking the label of the Mavic rim. He would've topped what he had in one go.

Lining up tyres logos to the valves... pimping.

I do it too, just sayin'.

Love that saddle though.

A6 ?

Sounds about right-ish.

Lamination is essential... just to make things hard for you ;)

One flask acquired. Thanks Royal Mile Whiskies.

I'm damn fast on SS, somewhat reckless too. On FG I just cruise more, admire the sights and such.

Really?

If you can make 50 today for tomorrow, I'll give you the money in the morning... just let me know how much they are... and I'm assuming a cost price of less than 50p per card at the very most.

Have you really got nothing better to do?

What about all these V-compatible brakes... not going to work with nice Campag road callipers are they?

So I'll probably end up with a Paul lever, they're about as simple as they get and at least theirs state that they're calliper compatible.

And where's the compatibility anyway? The amount of leverage and force applied? Likelihood of endo'ing when using V-brake levers? Stuff like that?

Mine's always when slowing. Attempting to coast to a stop, that's always when I forget. I never feel it when I start or cruise... just when I stop.

Done... 8.45 at Earls Court it is.

Damn, need to buy a flask before then.

damnham:if your coming in through earls court we can meet up there then head down together, if not we'll see you at 9:30 outside the HH gates

I'll do that. What's the address? Or just Earls Court Station... the entrance with the Tardis?

Oh, and what time... how long do you reckon from Earls Court to Herne Hill? And I shall be cycling much much slower. I've switched to fix and am determined not to forget and send myself flying again (sick of doing that).

hey beatz, do you know the way? I could always ride by yours first and then ride down together. I promise a much slower pace than the other night, commuter pace this time ;)

Well if the jumble is before... then shall we say 9.30 for breakfast somewhere?

That's a lie-in, a leisurely ride down there, grub up and time to go around the jumble before it's too hellish.

Cool, when are the gates? ;)

Organisation and planning, never been one of my strong points :)

This depends on whether I'm conscious. What time are you thinking of having breakfast and where? If there's a chance of me making it, then sure... otherwise I'm staying in bed that bit longer.

OMG! PONiES!

Fab, let's make spoke cards for the fuck of it... guerilla marketing, if we see a fixie parked up anywhere, card it.

And a skin-suit? Is Jos getting a VCL skin-suit? It's all we want to know!