Any question answered...

Common practice on the track in my days... No one used lock rings anyway, and that was exactly how you would loosen a cog.

*Kids excluded.

Did you one person rotafix? Last fixed sprocket I removed needed two people to turn the wheel. It had been on a 1.6:1 ratio for 12 months of polo...

I noticed that something near my bottom bracket/chainset is making a creaking noise when I apply above-average force when pedalling, particularly at starts and climbs.
I've tightened the cranks to bb, and chainring bolts are solid.
All parts are new so I suspect that my bb might just need tightening, am I on the right track?

Greased everything? BB cups might need the extra tweak.

In Google SketchUp can you type in the intended coordinates of a shape or does everything have to be dragged to size on the mouse?

My next step is going skidding slowly along some quiet streets without a lockring..

That's what I did, just go out super slow and pull up hard, it should just come loose.

^wanking tips?

would it be an idea to thread a lockring on a few turns actually?

Only if you're a muppet with no brakes, surely?

Or if you don't want a cog/chain unscrewing off your hub and jamming/scraping between the flange/spacers/hub and frame.

In Google SketchUp can you type in the intended coordinates of a shape?

Yes

What's the best way to kick off a campaign to boycott Java until those dicks at Oracle remove the Ask toolbar from their installer?

dirty protest, shit in their coffee?

would it be an idea to thread a lockring on a few turns actually?

Nahhhh just go and do it at really slow speed.

dirty protest, shit in their coffee?

They have an office in Reading.. hmm.. doable.

Not sure the Reading office will have much sway for this global scourge though.

Do I have to be a Keirin rider to get an NJS frame built?

Adobe and their shit need sorting too...

Do I have to be a Keirin rider to get an NJS frame built?

Nope. You can even order a new NJS Panasonic off the internets.

Hmmmmm, the only place I could find them didn't do custom enough geo, but thanks :)

Order a Nagasawa through Tokyo Fixed?

I want to, just asking for future reference because I have my nice bike for now :)

What kinda price do they start at, do you?

ask tokyo fixed

£1,900.

It makes more sense (and it would be cheaper) to get a UK custom but I'd love to own a Nagasawa too so I sympathise. ;)

I know it would be way cheaper and quicker to get a UK built one but I'm in love with the idea of NJS* so I'd better start saving.

*Oh the shame