eBay and Craigslist finds

clicky
http://www.gumtree.com/london/88/10824188.html

A couple of fixed on gumtree today.. both around the £165 mark but you could probably drive them down...

http://www.gumtree.com/london/82/11028082.html

http://www.gumtree.com/london/11/11031011.html

and not so cheap...

a condor...
http://www.gumtree.com/london/29/11029129.html

a Bianchi (might save someone buying one new from Evans :)
http://www.gumtree.com/london/14/11025414.html

quite big...but currently at £21

These weird carbon hubs...

Ohh these hubs are wicked man!

hawt dang, what hubs!

araya rims:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/new-ARAYA-CT19-RIM-set-clincher-32h-brown-anodized_W0QQitemZ280130160260QQihZ018QQcategoryZ56197QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

arayas are good for brakeless riders only as the braking surface is REALLY smooth...not so good

i'm learning to use the brakes less stef, and it looks like good braking surfaces don't do me good, bet you saw me throwing myself over the bars yesterday...

yeah! - how's that arm today?

But those suzue hubs are nice - their aluminium ones look nicer IMO, very well finished, but I guess the carbon ones must save a fair amount of weight. I wonder how those carbon flanges stand up to spoke stress?

Suzue went out of business last December so now might be a good time to pick some up.

where are all those cougars coming from ?

scott not scot the flanges look like aluminium to me with carbon centres?

That's right

Stef arayas are good for brakeless riders only as the braking surface is REALLY smooth...not so good

i don't think they have a braking surface at all.. i have a pair in silver which look similar, and there isn't any.

yeah, excuse my lack of knowledge but that is what i was trying to say...learning day by day...

It ain't fixed but it's a nice mercian... Friend of mine has put it up for sale:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230148685674

Haha, thats the most expensive piece of wood I've ever seen. Click on the pic. He's selling hundreds, I was thinking of winning them all and re-building Manchester velodrome in the back garden.

I have a knackered Conti tubular that was used on the legendary Manchester track, It comes with a 'certificate of authenticity' that I made on MS word. £80???
Anyone?

is the picture dodgy or does this look like there is no way to tighten this stem around the bars ?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SHIMANO-Dura-Ace-AX-stem-70mm-22-2-26-0-New_W0QQitemZ320132138412QQihZ011QQcategoryZ42333QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

It has an internal wedge which tightens onto the bars fromthe back (ie frame side of the bars). looks nice but concentrates the force on a small part of the bars.

when you tighten the stem into the frame it tightens round the bars at the same time. well flash!!

Mmmm, Shimano AX stuff is nice. I polished the $hit out of one of those AX stems, it looks so bling. If you get dazzled, loose control and die, that was my AX stem what did it.

did you have any problems with bar slippage tommo ?

i getcha it kind of feeds in from the turn
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Japan/shimano/Shim_6ax_stm.htm
clearer in these pictures

dicki did you have any problems with bar slippage tommo ?

Um... vaseline?
That'll teach me for reading the thread upside-down..

Maybe I added some shine with Photoshop too.

I dream of these...