Current Projects chat and miscellany

Hope to start building these up this week.

...want.

How much are these btw? can you still get 'em?

come on bubblan, wanna see the rest

it's nice.

$375 extra for the s&s couplers though...... not that i'd need them for anything!

...want.

How much are these btw? can you still get 'em?

They where £3000. Last of the stocks sold out end of 2008.

£3k!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!

£3k!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!

Maybe that was dollars. Can't remember.

Anyway, still at least £1800, which is stupid, for a silly looking frame with weird geometry. Nice to ride though, shame it screams 'you're right, I don't have a girlfriend', about its rider.

Not really a project but my new toy

My first ever bike with either suspension or disk brakes. Not really ideal for the riding i fancy doing but it was a real impulse buy (as in once around tesco carpark, hop off a couple of curbs and back to the guy with a grin on my face and my hand in my wallet).

Only plans for it are to remove the stickers off the rims and possible the fork legs.. then pray for a couple of decent weekends before winter takes hold.

Hi there, first post.

I was in heavy traffic in Central London and cautiously moved out behind a bus to overtake. Although I was still on my side of the road, as I moved out behind the bus, coming down at full speed in front of me was a courier on a Fixie He was fully in my lane. He had no way of stopping and so instead kind of bounced off the bus and then did a wierd flip over the handle bars and hit the floor with his shoulder. Thankfully he didn't crash into me, which would have been bad.

Can anyone here please exlain how to perform an emergency stop with a fixed wheel bike? And please explain how track bikes like this work in heavy traffic in Central London?

It's funny because as I looked at him on the floor, I realised that this bike would probably work fantastic on a kind of track with no opposing traffic, but are ridiculous to be used in London - unless of course one's aim is to travel faster than it's possible to stop safely.

And this fits in current projects because?

//Can anyone here please exlain how to perform an emergency stop with a fixed wheel bike? And please explain how track bikes like this work in heavy traffic in Central London?//

Skid or use a brake.

//I realised that this bike would probably work fantastic on a kind of track with no opposing traffic, but are ridiculous to be used in London - unless of course one's aim is to travel faster than it's possible to stop safely.//

Plenty of us use track bikes on the road safely (more safely than most of the hybrid nodder morning peloton). It's not the bike, it's the rider

Troll.

And this fits in current projects because?

and that.

Troll.

that too.

I realised that this bike would probably work fantastic on a kind of track with no opposing traffic.

Could be onto something. Maybe with banked corners so as to reduce the need to slow down. This could really catch on.

Not really a project but my new toy.

Nice Orange.
subtle but bling at the same time (from what I can see).

Hi there, first post.

I was in heavy traffic in Central London and cautiously moved out behind a bus to overtake. Although I was still on my side of the road, as I moved out behind the bus, coming down at full speed in front of me was a courier on a Fixie He was fully in my lane. He had no way of stopping and so instead kind of bounced off the bus and then did a wierd flip over the handle bars and hit the floor with his shoulder. Thankfully he didn't crash into me, which would have been bad.

Can anyone here please exlain how to perform an emergency stop with a fixed wheel bike? And please explain how track bikes like this work in heavy traffic in Central London?

It's funny because as I looked at him on the floor, I realised that this bike would probably work fantastic on a kind of track with no opposing traffic, but are ridiculous to be used in London - unless of course one's aim is to travel faster than it's possible to stop safely.

fucking bus drivers.

Nice Orange.
subtle but bling at the same time (from what I can see).

cheers, should look more subtle once i've had the nail varnish remover to the rims etc.

I've never really been into mtbs but a few of my mates ride them plus i'm in halifax so i always fancied an orange.

They where £3000. Last of the stocks sold out end of 2008.

...just seen the sale thread, I was on holiday, gutted. I'd have had that in a heartbeat.

If you ever want to sell Mr Kingcutter ;)

Hi there, first post.

And probably last as well.

If you ever want to sell Mr Kingcutter ;)

Watch the Classifieds, it's bound to turn up in a couple of weeks. Mark my words.
May have white tyres though ;)

Missed a few pages of this thread recently.

PeteScotch the chrome thing is blooming marvellous.

Wish my dad had things like that knocking around in the garage. Hasn't even got a garage come to think of it.

http://i28.tinypic.com/30nc48w.jpg
http://i27.tinypic.com/rcmpu1.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/acg6j8.jpg
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Carlton Corsair rescued from skip (Can;t put it back,skips gone!)

I got few old bits lying around I'll build it up

Question Is it 531>
Why dont my 27" wheels fit in the dropouts, Should I file them?

Noticed that noone responded to scott free, so i thought I would.

Nice Corsair!

Presumably the axle on the front is the one that won't go in? Older front axles were skinnier than now, can't remember what diameter exactly. Airlites and other old english stuff would fit.

I once filed some small flats onto an axle to get around this, only as wide as the thickness of the ends. Doesn't affect the bolts as this section is for the ends.

Otherwise you could file the ends out a bit, but that would be harder and possibly a bad idea to 'ruin' an old fork. I chose to 'ruin' an axle instead.

I still have the hub, if you want it, Campag record high flange track, 70s I think it is, 36 hole. Needs a good polish but all good (unless you count the filing!).

Have fun building it.

Hi there, first post.

I was in heavy traffic in Central London and cautiously moved out behind a bus to overtake. Although I was still on my side of the road, as I moved out behind the bus, coming down at full speed in front of me was a courier on a Fixie He was fully in my lane. He had no way of stopping and so instead kind of bounced off the bus and then did a wierd flip over the handle bars and hit the floor with his shoulder. Thankfully he didn't crash into me, which would have been bad.

Can anyone here please exlain how to perform an emergency stop with a fixed wheel bike? And please explain how track bikes like this work in heavy traffic in Central London?

It's funny because as I looked at him on the floor, I realised that this bike would probably work fantastic on a kind of track with no opposing traffic, but are ridiculous to be used in London - unless of course one's aim is to travel faster than it's possible to stop safely.

Every now and again, our civilization is advanced by an 'agent of change', and i feel that Okay may be one such figure; an almost mystical being who moves among us bit is not, quite, of us. As such Okay richly deserves are thanks and reverence. Until i read his post today i had been falling off my bike several times a day, yet the reason for this painful routine remained elusive. Of course, now, thanks to Okay's erudition, Eureka! it's dawned on me why.... all this time i had been riding a fixed gear bike. Knowing this will surely safeguard me from future mishaps. And, conversely, the knowledge that I've been riding my great-great-great grandfather's penny farthing for many years now at semi-professional track racing events across the UK will surely mean I no longer finsh last with quite such alarming regularity. Thanks once again, Okay!

Hi there, first post.

I was in heavy traffic in Central London and cautiously moved out behind a bus to overtake. Although I was still on my side of the road, as I moved out behind the bus, coming down at full speed in front of me was a courier on a Fixie He was fully in my lane. He had no way of stopping and so instead kind of bounced off the bus and then did a wierd flip over the handle bars and hit the floor with his shoulder. Thankfully he didn't crash into me, which would have been bad.

Can anyone here please exlain how to perform an emergency stop with a fixed wheel bike? And please explain how track bikes like this work in heavy traffic in Central London?

It's funny because as I looked at him on the floor, I realised that this bike would probably work fantastic on a kind of track with no opposing traffic, but are ridiculous to be used in London - unless of course one's aim is to travel faster than it's possible to stop safely.

yeah you are right doesn't make sense, neither does a lot of things in life, just wondering how the poor fella was and if you offered any assistance.

indeed your "sense of agency" has developed far beyond anyone i have come across..

Bianchi arrived this afternoon waiting on my cranks now.

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Hi there, first post.

I was in heavy traffic in Central London and cautiously moved out behind a bus to overtake. Although I was still on my side of the road, as I moved out behind the bus, coming down at full speed in front of me was a courier on a Fixie He was fully in my lane. He had no way of stopping and so instead kind of bounced off the bus and then did a wierd flip over the handle bars and hit the floor with his shoulder. Thankfully he didn't crash into me, which would have been bad.

Can anyone here please exlain how to perform an emergency stop with a fixed wheel bike? And please explain how track bikes like this work in heavy traffic in Central London?

It's funny because as I looked at him on the floor, I realised that this bike would probably work fantastic on a kind of track with no opposing traffic, but are ridiculous to be used in London - unless of course one's aim is to travel faster than it's possible to stop safely.
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Bianchi arrived this afternoon waiting on my cranks now.

please tell me you are taking the piss.

unless of course you are actually gonna race this in TT's..... then it doesn't matter what it looks like.