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I guessed by the use of that tragic picture that "meh" might be your reply, fair enough taste, or lack of it, is a personal matter.
But how can tit for tat work when most of them are encased in steel?
A cyclist is going to lose 9 times out of 10.You won't get much of a response from 'quickvit' (TM). He's a pissedandateher in waiting
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Do you not think you should have been a bit more careful going around a blind bend?
Surely you realise that unexpected things happen on the road so you should take more care if you can't see what''s ahead of you?
If it was a ped crossing the road as you were going around the corner rather thn a taxi in your way, would you still be calling them a cunt or would you have accepted responsibility of being a cunt yourself?
I know the road pretty well, there's plenty of space of stop after the bend and before the crossing. It just never occurred to me that someone would stop there. Lesson = never underestimate the stupidity of the blue badge brigade. I also didn't help myself by going flat out pretty close to the back of other traffic. Definitely my fault I hit those guys, and I feel bad, I'm so pissed off at myself for such a schoolboy error. It's frustrating though, cos I've broken my bike, hurt myself, and if the taxi hadnt stopped on double reds, it wouldn't have happened.As for my brake fail, I have those charge plug bullhorn bars, a bar end lever, I wasn't covering it, and by the time I grabbed it, that was it. That's life I guess. I might be less pissed off tomorrow when I buy a new frame and forks.
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at the end of the day you should always expect the unexpected, if you rear end someone 99% of the time its your fault
This wasn't quite in the 1%. I know it's my fault (too fast, too close), and I was just looking to blame someone else and rant. Fortunately, the forum came through and brought me back down to earth -- first reply was a suggestion to take lessons!More importantly than me riding like a div, what frame/forks?? Anyone got a 64cm+ frame and forks knocking about?
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at the end of the day you should always expect the unexpected
1+ althought that does not mean you have to cycle in a defensive manner, just with extra precaution is all that needed.
This wasn't quite in the 1%. I know it's my fault (too fast, too close), and I was just looking to blame someone else and rant. Fortunately, the forum came through and brought me back down to earth -- first reply was a suggestion to take lessons!
More importantly than me riding like a div, what frame/forks?? Anyone got a 64cm+ frame and forks knocking about?
least you realise that it's your own fault and accept it, just put it down to experience of which you've surely gained.
64cm?? bloody hell, I do feel for you, keep looking in the classified section as well as the ebay/craiglist topic as I'm pretty sure you'll find a replacement.
failing that, just concentrate on looking for a replacement fork, threaded or threadless it doesn't matter as long it's 1" and long enough for your headtube (that if your frame appear to be fine, i.e. the tubing near the headtube aren't slighty bend, which can be hard to spot).
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Just thought Pink Earls Court jumped to conclusions.....
Is Earls Court a pink place then?
1+ althought that does not mean you have to cycle in a defensive manner, just with extra precaution is all that needed.
least you realise that it's your own fault and accept it, just put it down to experience of which you've surely gained.
64cm?? bloody hell, I do feel for you, keep looking in the classified section as well as the ebay/craiglist topic as I'm pretty sure you'll find a replacement.
failing that, just concentrate on looking for a replacement fork, threaded or threadless it doesn't matter as long it's 1" and long enough for your headtube (that if your frame appear to be fine, i.e. the tubing near the headtube aren't slighty bend, which can be hard to spot).
The frame's pretty old (70s) and the cost of getting it properly checked out would probably exceed the value of the frame. I do want it checked properly, my face is too pretty to stack hard onto when my headtube detaches from the frame... I'm also pretty hefty, so I can't afford to take chances with little cracks and stuff, they'd be huge cracks pretty quickly.The headtube is so ridiculously long that I really need to find a 1" fork with an uncut, or at least super-long steerer. My tap and die set doesn't go up as far as 1", so i'd have to pay bikefix or someone to chop it to length and thread it. Again, probably exceeding the value of the frame.
Stop making sensible suggestions, I want to buy a new frame!
There may well be a huge frame with bent forks available on the forum later this week.
New question: is it morally acceptable to sell it to a hipster as a "super-rare close clearance vintage frame"?
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Went back to the westcountry this weekend, no track frames in my size, anywhere. Got back this morning, phoned in and explained, then went and bought a frame. Bob Jackson were quoting 7 weeks, and the 62cm steamroller that Brixton Bikes had turned out to be a 62cm box and a 59cm frame. Gutted.
Anyway, Cavendish Cycles sorted me out with a 62cm IRO angus, that black fork and the headset. Walking in the door - walking out the door, about 40 minutes. Recommended!
The rest was bodged off the frame that expired.
http://static.londonfgss.com/memberpics7145-albums745-picture4518.jpg
Apologies for pants pictures
And the knackered frame:
http://static.londonfgss.com/memberpics7145-albums745-picture4521.jpg
It folded up just behind the lug, and there's a nice little crinkle in the frame. Underneath the paint, it was actually pretty rotten. There's a little 2mm x 1mm hole in the underside of the tubing. To be binned. I'll stick the fork and headset in classified later on.
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Well one bit of their site said "all frames in stock in all sizes, almost all the time", and another bit said "we're working hard to return to previous stock levels, but we're pretty much making to order" or something, hence the wait. I'm going to run this thing into the ground and then go to cyclefit and get measured for a custom frame. And then i'll start persuading the wife ;)
All chrome BJ vigorelli? really? why thank you darling, how ever did you guess = me on christmas day 2012.
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7 weeks is perfectly normal, some people just don't like waiting for their frame to be made.
why should they want to wait for a supposed "off the peg" frame of ordinary geometry and tubing, when you can have the choice of getting other stuff, like the IRO that he bought?
I can understand waiting for something custom made, with care and decent tubing, and properly welded joints.
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I know where you mean and that corner is a bit of a bitch especially when peds are stepping out from the front of buses.
A black cabbie nearly rammed me just outside Oval station last week, yards from the bus lane andright by by the bunch of flowers for poor women killed by the HGV a month or so ago. Actually the first incident i've had with the carriage in a while. Those Addison Lee twats are a law upon themselves. Not only for bad driving but also for ripping off customers, cnuts the lot of em. -
ever thought about riding lessons?
That place is a black spot. I used to work in The Oval and have seen all sorts. Even driving can be a pain with mad bus drivers, cab stopping on the bus lane... and pedestrians notoriously crossing on the red light (also estate boys on the bikes riding on the zebra crossing despite the red light).
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I guessed by the use of that tragic picture that "meh" might be your reply, fair enough taste, or lack of it, is a personal matter.
But how can tit for tat work when most of them are encased in steel?
A cyclist is going to loose 9 times out of 10.