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cheers. yeah it is a bit dodgy, its tough to find a good position with the bmx bars. thinking i'm gonna get a new stem and headset and some different bars.

anti

hi Rob, its Ben, met u outside the library afew times - good luck on exams and hope to see u on some rides and at polo soon!

Right I need some FUCKING HELP with this god damn piece of shit I can't fix.
Every time I go for a ride, I get my rear tyre up to correct psi ('bour 100) and all is fine and good, but after about 5-10 minutes I get a feeling like my rear wheel is slightly eccentric, and after looking it works out that the inner tube has bulged out about a quarter turn from the valve. The tube has pushed the tyre off the lip of the rim for about 10-15cm of the circumference of the wheel. Try as I might, I can't fit it back on without deflating the tube, and still, the tyre won't sit right.
I've done lots, from rotating the tyre (still no love) to completely taking the tyre and tube off and starting again (was fine for about 15 minutes). Even cycling on low psi, not skidding and being well gentle it still fucking wobbles out. WHAT HAVE I DONE?

My fear is this is either a) something really wrong like my rims are slightly buckled in that place or b) this is the most basic problem in the world, that they teach you how to fix in fucking school and I somehow missed a day. Fair enough, I'm not the most experienced person in the world but this is beyond even my stupid, glove loosing mind.

Oh and on that note, if anyone finds some Knog Love/Hate gloves (black, fingerless) at the top of the Oxford road, they're mind and I'm a moron. Fucking bullshit day.

@nice chris - play nice.

anti

Way to welcome the newbie. Bell end.

@morgan

sounds like the tube is just getting caught under the bead of the tyre. it looks like a bigger problem than it is.

so if I just make sure the tube is aligned properly in the tyre then it should sort it out? Fuck me, if it's that easy I've sworn alot unneccisarily today.

good luck with that morgan. i've just patched up an inner tube and put it in so i expect to be woken in the night by BANG psssssssssshhhhhhhhhht. then i'll cry myself back to sleep.

welcome bobo! i've got those wheels+i should get some extra long valves like yours. i only just manage without. seeya round

Just normal long valves should do it, I've got 42mm rims and the long valves work just fine, my current tube alignment problem not withstanding.

as i said, i manage! uninterrupted sleep woohah!

Chris (aka Bicycle Repair Man from the Dynamic Duo Monty Python check point) slumming it in sunny Levvy. Recently joined the singularity with a Plug purchase, used to ride the butt ugly Sirus with the dodgy rack.

alright chris. was that the fish slap checkpoint? i kept accidentally punching my partner with the hand holding hte fish!

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alright chris. was that the fish slap checkpoint? i kept accidentally punching my partner with the hand holding hte fish!

Yup, that's the one. I think Chicken won the best punch from his team mate award but that was half the fun in having only small fish. I had been planning on using real ones but cost and vegan militants left me with the sewing kit and some dish sponges.

It was my humble attempt to lower the tone and stop some of the testosterone loaded hipsters from taking themselves so seriously.

hi snoops, i managed to get your txt a whole 10 days later...yop phone
which is why i didn't reply or show up - not being rude!
will catch up with y'all in sept.

Turns out the bead of my brand new Schwalbe was split, that's why it was so easy to get on. Piece of crap, and my spare Armadillo had a rip in it. Fucking tyres.

All Terain Cycles are doing Bonty racelite hardcase for £11. I'm running the 25mm and loving them so far. I've used Scwhalbe and the Aramdillos and they roll better than either IMHO.

WOAH, I only just worked it out!

Craig Nasty = 'Tyres' from Spaced!

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oh my word. am i that bad??? that makes me like pikey wayne then...

im ed 25 and not actually from manchester, but sheffield. currently converting a 70's claude butler into a flip flop.

Alright Ed, come up for drinks or polo some time! Sheff ain't that far is it?

hi spooko from bolton building a bike .and got one for sale too

Hey up,
Im David, live in New Islington (haha, I mean Ancoats!), new to all this fixie stuff, got a Fuji Track that I just did the Manchester to Blackpool on.

Would be great to hook up at some of the meets, Im signing up for the Manchester 100, so I could do with some longer rides before then if anyone knows of any or is organising one!

go to sandbar friday nights, say hello, get wrong...

we could do tt's from sb to your gaff (or a local bar to you) over that lovely cobbled bridge...

@ newton see the rides and races thread. we ride every week around 40-70 miles. NOT fixed. i mean you could try winnats on a fixed and I could laugh at you.