Dahon build

oh bloody hell don't start I am married to a Polish girl from Chicago
God bless the pope (the old one) and bloody sausages with everything

A co jest nie tak z moja polszczyzna? Wypraszam sobie!

I don't understand a word of it

but they make me sing that hundred years song

stolat - stolat -

at every bleedin opportunity

whilst making me eat sausage

I take it that you is a polish australian then hippy geezer*...?

No vodka? What kind of Polish girl did you marry?!?!

I think she she was going to be a nun

Poland, Chicago Style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-C3Bx4Cc8g

the-smiling-buddha I take it that you is a polish australian then hippy geezer*...?

Nope, I'm Aussie-born with Scottish roots. I have a live-in Polish translator (http://www.thehippy.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=144&pos=0)

I was all 'new age man' until I got a Polish bird , you ever seen a dirty or untidy Polish house...?
never, it just doesn't happen, I ain't allowed to do house work no more, I just don't make the grade

oh and they're , cute

Yep! Wouldn't trade mine in.. not even for a really nice bike!

kowalski
I'm given to understand that ISIS, like Octalink, isn't really up to the task of fixed wheel road use.

There are lots of bikes out there with ISIS bottom brackets (ie last five years of or so of Bianchi Pistas). My lady's bike has an ISIS bottom bracket and its been working well for years. Lots of new off-the-shelf fixies come with Powerspline BBs so for the majority of folks they work ok.

Where you start getting into trouble is if you're really hard on equipment - if I was a brakeless messenger for example I may want to avoid splined stuff (more because its a pain to replace due to the different systems out there - Octalink, ISIS, Powersplines etc).

The first generation Octalink had a problem where the interface wore when skidding and cranksets failed. Haven't seen too many other failures in splined BBs apart from people who beat the living daylights out of their gear.

the-smiling-buddha [quote]Momentum I'd be careful of those FSA cranks. I've read about problems with them - apparently the crank arm/spider connection isn't great and can come a bit loose.

I read something somewhere also

what about these

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Same problem. the new ones (first you posted) have an aluminimum spider and carbon cranks. the older ones have alu cranks and a carbon spider. In both cases there are problems because the splined interface between crank and spider develops play. I would go for something more proven and that's gonna hold up better. If you want black cranks then Sugino 75s come in black, although the anodising can rub off after a while.

EDIT: the problem is not the play between splined BB and splined crank. It is between the two pieces (crankarm and spider) that make up the cranks. they are also splined and develop play.

Splined cranks. They can't be that week, BMX cranks are splined and they have to take a hell of a lot od abuse.

BMX cranks are usually steel though rather than alu, yeah?

some and some. Racing ones are alu and many people still use them on dirt jumps, plus a raincing BMX rider can sprint hard and fast.

TheBrick(Tommy) some and some. Racing ones are alu and many people still use them on dirt jumps, plus a raincing BMX rider can sprint hard and fast.
Look at Robbie McEwan..

So STAGE 1 (single-speed) complete

Everything heavy or superfluous has been striped off and binned.

I have replaced the pedals, front wheel, seatpost and saddle

The orginal chainring was the cheapest most 'orrible thing

I have ever seen on a bike

So I fitted one from some middleburn cranks I had lying about

Now the weight is down to around 10 kg

Still getting used to how this bike 'feels'

it doesn't ride like any other bike I have ever ridden

Looking forward to doing a little bit of 'shopping'

oooh that looks sweet

Just bought this little baby for £30 squid !!

Single speed, internal cable routing, great condition, of course it is set up for a 12 year old kid, but a bit a work with a hacksaw will see me good.

ahh thats a cool ride.....im still on the look out for a shopper!

aidan ahh thats a cool ride.....im still on the look out for a shopper!

I love shoppers !!!! I might start a whole *grown up men riding customized single speed shoppers scene*™

Or more simply the single speed shopper scene (SSSS™)

On my quest to find a shopper I came across these, might be of some interest to you:
(I really was looking for a Raleigh 'Twenty' but couldn't resist the internal cable routing on this PUCH, just like a Klein !!)

Blue Raleigh Twenty

Green Raleigh Twenty

Brown Raleigh Twenty

Green Raleigh Nova

Crazy little Raleigh-RSW

d/p

go shoppers! fixed shopper conversion's been on my to-do list for ages...

ive got a couple liying around one of them is a friends and dont think i can touch it but ant the other has had the front wheel nicked to go on the chopper

a set of eggbeaters went on today

I haven't ridden it much, I am still getting used to it, it still feels a little 'twitchy'

I took it down to the Paris Plage on Sunday though

alot people commented on how much they liked it

now I am trying to figure out a rack

because a 'shopping bike' has to be able to carry shopping

leeww Just bought this little baby for £30 squid !!

Single speed, internal cable routing, great condition, of course it is set up for a 12 year old kid, but a bit a work with a hacksaw will see me good.

What you going to do to it...?