I need help picking parts for my new bike!

Your hub choices are a bit more limited for fixed/free (sprocket one side, freewheel the other). Formula/System Ex are the cheapest, Phil Wood on the pricey side with a few inbetween.

Loads of choice for rims, see Ambrosio, Mavic, Velocity, Weinmann amongst others.

Pick your hubs and rims and ask nicely on here if someone can help you with the right spokes and build the wheels for you, for cash or for beer or both.

I'm doing a wheel building session in mid-June - stick yourself on the list if you fancy learning it. You could get the SJS wheelset about £40 cheaper if you build it yourself from components.

The list of lists is also handy.

doesn't the brake on that require an inverse shim hippy?

buy my wheelset!
Its perfectly middle range and well within your wheel budget, and better than anything you can buy for the same price from a store!
and it'll be delivered to you door, perfectly true.

doesn't the brake on that require an inverse shim hippy?

Two, in fact.

buy my wheelset!
Its perfectly middle range and well within your wheel budget, and better than anything you can buy from a store!
and it'll be delivered to you door, perfectly true.

Listen to the man

should have added for the price!
balls.
but yeah, you won't find the same quality for the same price in the stores

Anyone got experience of Brick Lane Bikes home made wheels? They costed me £230 for 2 complete wheels with velocity deep v rims and their own branded hubs etc...

They're good, the wheelbuilder is good, the hubs are the same as Formula etc from memory.
you can work it out:
Cost of hubs = £65
Rims= £84
Spokes = £20 (+)
Wheelbuild = £25 ish per wheel.
and you've got your price (v. fair imho)

BLB's wheel build price is a bit steep. I'd get yourself on ehren fried chicken's course in June and learn a skill at the same time.

Anyone have an opinion on these handbuilt wheels by SJS?
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-Handbuilt_by_SJSC-Pair-Wheels-SJSC-Fixed-Hubs-with-36-Hole-700c-Mavic-Open-Sport-Black-Rims-18887.htm look like decent wheels for the price?

The stuff that SJS stock is, in my experience, never crap. Their hubs, which are also branded as Formula and System Ex (and a few others), are alright for the money. So are the Open Sports.

If you buy the components individually they are cheaper - look up the prices on their site.

There's a dude on here that was doing Mavic Open Sports on Miche Primato hubs for 135notes - Good deal.

I'd avoid the trendies and get a flite ti saddle.

Joining the trendies, I have a major prediliction for aero seatposts, most notably the older records with the Campag Logo.

Drop handlebars are just better if you ride a long way, so many more positions to stretch out. The weird elkskin shit that you sew on is also cool and is fun to do.

I also like the old single pull campag brakes with the aero mounting bolts. They look so lovely, you almost want to fit a pair.

Chainsets - I like older campag (athena espesh) and particularly old Dura Ace (the squareish ones)

Was that helpful?

Thanks for the advice all. Fried Chicken I'll be coming to one of your wheel build workshops but I'm going to get these ones for now, need to get on two wheels, the bus is killing me!