Any question answered...

I have one and I'm uncool.

I was uncool on a track bike too though.

And the fixed with front and rear brakes.

BRAKE all the things!

Thanks for the car rack advice guys. No tow bar, will investigate saris bones.

I've got a fairly long (115mi) bumpy ride lined up on thursday and wanted to go for a flat 60ish mile gentle spin tomorrow.

Whenever I think of an easy flat route all I can think of is London to Cambridge. I'm bored of this.

Anybody have any suggestions for an alternative flat route? My imagination is letting me down.

100 laps of Regents Park :)

Ride out to the Chilterns but not over them.

100 laps of Regents Park :)

Too hilly.

Go to Windsor or Chertsey and back, means you won't accidentally end up in the Chilterns.

SW is evil.

One of the springs on my left pedal (Aliums) has become wobbly and makes a grim clicking sound whenever I push down/pull up (i.e. all the time). It's the side I clip in/out of at lights etc. - dead or fixable?

unless it's actually broken it's probably fine. the springs are loose at certain angles.
the grim noises might be a request for general maintenance - do they just need tightening/cleaning up?

What's the grammatical term for things like wet rain?

Tautology?

fatally murdered

5AM in the morning

Boom! Indra, you're a champion! Been bugging me for ages

A new invention

I've got a fairly long (115mi) bumpy ride lined up on thursday and wanted to go for a flat 60ish mile gentle spin tomorrow.

Whenever I think of an easy flat route all I can think of is London to Cambridge. I'm bored of this.

Anybody have any suggestions for an alternative flat route? My imagination is letting me down.

How about a ride to sevenoaks in kent? There and back is about 50 miles. I did this route last month and enjoyed it.
http://app.strava.com/activities/56398674

Pleonasm could also be used but was not the word I was looking for

I have two brakes on my fixed bike, and I'm very uncool.

You always follow Ed's advice, don't you?

if i have a fixed gear bike that has two brakes, will i be uncool?

I have two uncool cantis on my fixed bike and still manage to be rad to the power of sick. Do it.

I don't think there's any even vaguely sensible way to use a 32h hub with a 36h rim.

If it's a dished rear you could build it half-radial onto a 36h hub and leave out half the NDS spokes to give a 27 spoke wheel. I'd want a deep and stiff rim to resist the unevenness - wheels should be round not nonagonal. (I've heard of people doing something like this with 24h rims & 24 spokes onto 32h hubs.)

Are the rim holes offset towards alternate hub flanges, or drilled at an angle aimed towards alternate flanges? If not you have more options:

Find an 18h hub and you could build a radial wheel with every other rim hole. (No, it won't work with every other hole of a 36h hub - you'll find half the holes you want are on the wrong flange.)

There's a whole family of 24 spoke patterns that will work on a 36h hub by skipping every third rim hole. You can do radial, 0.5 cross, 1.5 cross, 2.5 cross... On all of them the skipped rim holes come between two spoke that go to the same flange - lateral trueing might be hard.

If the rim holes are flange-specific then you have to skip pairs of adjacent rim holes, so your wheel may come out hexagonal.

Thankyou for the answer, enough to regret thinking of such insanity.

How about a ride to sevenoaks in kent? There and back is about 50 miles. I did this route last month and enjoyed it.
http://app.strava.com/activities/56398674

Nice work mate. Its a toss up between Maldon and that part of Kent.

I associate Kent with my usual Toys-Cudham-Ide hilly route so didn't think of heading that way.

There are a few hills but very gradual. I doubt you would need to leave the big ring.