eBay and Craigslist finds

in the peleton i am known as

'il ganitto' or 'the gannet' -

purely for my descending skills i imagine...

Sure it's not "granite", as in "descends like a lump of.."
That's what they'd call me.

but he gets up the hills faster than anyone else his bird loves him for that i'm sure
if he got rid of that chain he'd be even lighter

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Peugeot-frame-fixed-gear-singlespeed-fixed-wheel-surly_W0QQitemZ130135388558QQihZ003QQcategoryZ33503QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Now this is insane. Anodized blue Nitto 123 bars, which the seller claims where 200 quid new! and they're 36cm which is damn narrow.

Why would you spend this much on bars?!? You'd have to bring your own security team anywhere you went.

not sure I'm convinced by his "only pair in the UK" claim.
Hasn't Conrad got some on his Kalavinka?

what does he mean by mercian not included? it obviously will only go on a kalavinka and nothing else.

wOw another Mercian with same bars.. What's the chances?

Yeah Con has them bars

check this bad boy out!!! its propper nice:)

this would be perfect for my stead!!

Techno

can people stop saying 'bad boy'
as in look at these 'bad boys'
it grates

im really sorry......i hope i didnt hurt your feelings

I don't 'do' feelings

ahhh do you want a hug?? me hippy and murtle are planning on having one soon.....your welcome to join:)

its not for my benefit its for your benefit sunshine

don't trust that hippy geezer neither

had me wearing padded lycra shorts today he did

which made my 'bits' go numb

as Johnny rotten always said

NEVER TRUST A HIPPY

ahhh i havent been called sunshine in ages.....it really makes me feel special,thanks:).....hippy's going to be disapointed,he was looking forward to it

I hate the word "sunshine".. it reminds of that place far away where i used to experience it...

Sounds like user error that numb thing dude. You sure your saddle didn't move or something? Did you buy the shorts off some kind of which doctor? Were they also selling VIagra in the store.. ?

So many questions, so little time..

hippy
Techno

Funk me, looks like the saddle Robocop would use if he rode a bike!

user error...? what are you on, they are a pair of bleedin shorts, you just put them on, I mean thats it, there is no 'user instructions' , there are no operating bleedin proceedures, you just wear'em, and as to the saddle moving I done 80 klicks today you think I'd notice wouldn't you, as to Viagra well I am bloody going to need it if this happen everytime I wear lycra, funny innit, never had this problem with jeans, I think I need to lose the padding

Go back to jeans then. Guess you're undercarriage is built different or somethin'?!

hippy Go back to jeans then. Guess you're undercarriage is built different or somethin'?!

Oh no I ain't giving up, not while the sun is shining, I may as well have brown legs to go with my six pack, or at least a farmers tan, I am a bit surprised that it only me that goes numb in lycra though

They do work. You don't think people dress in this kinda thing because they like the look of their own beer gut in lycra? We ain't all that daft!

Some of the '3D' chamois designs can go too far. All my early knicks had a chamois that was essentially flat. You could also try the tri shorts which have only a very thin pad.

? http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&safe=off&q=lycra%20shorts%20numb&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wg

All my early knicks had a chamois that was essentially flat

that is what I want some of them old fashioned nothing to fancy nice bit of chamois abd a tub of cream...;)

Used cycling socks, anyone?