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Get off the M4 at J12 and see the lovely area that I grew up in and take the same journey to Newbury I took for a term spent doing film studies where I mainly smoked weed.

No, you're right, you can. But like incest and country dancing, just because you can doesn't always mean you should :-)

I think on most hubs it's fine, but on some the fixed hub has fewer threads. It depends on the hub, though. If I were buying a bike new I'd want to just get a fixed/free hub in the first place instead of fannying about worrying over whether the freewheel was ok or not. But, y'know, that's me, other people don't mind so much.

The genesis you linked is really nice, but I bit over my budget.

To add something else to the confusion, I just found that in the specialised website, the langster is listed as having a flip-flop. No idea if there are any differences with the langster they sell in Evans:

http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/road/langster/langster

Use of the term raw speed makes it the obvious choice.

Ride a few bikes if you can, see which one you like the feel/ride of.

The genesis you linked is really nice, but I bit over my budget.

To add something else to the confusion, I just found that in the specialised website, the langster is listed as having a flip-flop. No idea if there are any differences with the langster they sell in Evans:

http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/road/langster/langster

Yeah, the Spesh website isn't really helping matters. But bear in mind that a flip-flop doesn't have to have a freewheel on one side, it can also be fixed/fixed, which as I recall applies to the 2013 Langsters, so you can't guarantee the hub type. You could always go into Evans and actually ask them, though, they might have one in stock that you can actually look at.

If the worst comes to the worst, you can just buy A Bike off the cycle scheme and then sell it, use the money to get something second hand that does what you want and that you like. Also, I think this Plug is fixed/free (people in a meatspace shop will be able to confirm), with all sizes in stock: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/charge/plug-1-2014-singlespeed-road-bike-ec053632

A forrin forumenger wants to buy an Islabike: he was going to pay for it and have it sent to me, for onward shipping.

Just found out they won't take forrin plastic: any suggestions?

All I can think of, is for them to pay me via Paypal "goods" and I buy the bike: Buyer Protection covers their interests, but bumps the price up 4%.

Shitty balls.

As some of you know I am selling one of my old road bikes.

I was just giving it a clean before its first test ride and noticed this doozy of a something on the top tube. I can't decide whether it is a crack or a scratch.

What should I do about making sure this is just cosmetic? I do not want to sell a cracked frame to anybody.

The frame has been used on a turbo all winter, mostly with high resistance. Could this fuck with the top tube?

http://www.lfgss.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=85576&stc=1&d=1402503450

That really doesn't look like a crack to me. Just a scratch in the lacquer. Obviously that means nothing without defintive proof.

I'm no pro at this kind of thing, but maybe you could take some very fine sandpaper to it and see if it buffs out? If yes, its only cosmetic.

Shitty balls.

As some of you know I am selling one of my old road bikes.

I was just giving it a clean before its first test ride and noticed this doozy of a something on the top tube. I can't decide whether it is a crack or a scratch.

What should I do about making sure this is just cosmetic? I do not want to sell a cracked frame to anybody.

The frame has been used on a turbo all winter, mostly with high resistance. Could this fuck with the top tube?

http://www.lfgss.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=85576&stc=1&d=1402503450

I vote scratch. Weird shape for a crack innit.

I think on most hubs it's fine, but on some the fixed hub has fewer threads. It depends on the hub, though.

I would have thought that none of this matters unless the backside of the freewheel fouls the hub before fully engaging all available threads.

When engaged a freewheel places no additional force on the threads than a screw on sprocket, no?

When engaged a freewheel places no additional force on the threads than a screw on sprocket, no?

As long as the tooth count and chainline are the same, the driving loads are the same, and a freewheel doesn't have the load reversal problems which can affect the interface between a fixed sprocet and the hub.

Get off the M4 at J12 and see the lovely area that I grew up in and take the same journey to Newbury I took for a term spent doing film studies where I mainly smoked weed.

Where does J12 go? #herebedragons

Thanks for the deets stevep

Where does J12 go?

To the Hx/1 for values of x = 10,25,30,50

If I run 38mm tyres on rims rated to 32mm, am I

a) Increasing the risk of a puncture
b) Increasing the risk of damaging the rims
c) A badass maverick who doesn't play by the rules
d) other (please specify)

Thanks

d) Increasing the risk of the tyre coming unseated, it will also probably ride oddly.

If I run 38mm tyres on rims rated to 32mm, am I

a) Increasing the risk of a puncture
b) Increasing the risk of damaging the rims
c) A badass maverick who doesn't play by the rules
d) other (please specify)

Thanks

In some cases, the large tyre size means that if you do run brakes on it, the tyre may rub or not fit within the calipers. Other than that, I don't know much about it being bad.

Disc brakes.

I've done this before, but since I've just had new wheels built, wanted to be sure I wasn't going to destroy them.

I've done it before too and I didn't have any real problems, I ran the tyres at very low PSI too.

38c vittoria rando trails on narrow track rims, just want to say that I've heard it's not recommended.

http://sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html

read the bit titled width considerations.

edit:

http://images.ridemonkey.com/index.php?size=full&src=http%3A%2F%2Fi33.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fd87%2FAydynj%2FTireWidth.jpg

Is it legal to kill a pigeon in your garden that insists on cooing away at your window at silly a.m?

This may not be done by conventional means.

It's legal to do it by conventional means (e.g. shotgun*, peregrine falcon, cat), but anything too unconventional might get you into trouble on animal cruelty grounds.

*Assuming you have a licence for the shotgun, and operate it safely. I don't know the exact laws and regulations on destroying vermin on your own land with fire arms, but I'm guessing any downrange projectiles landing on other people's property is frowned upon :-)

Flying rat...do it.

http://sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html

read the bit titled width considerations.

edit:

http://images.ridemonkey.com/index.php?size=full&src=http%3A%2F%2Fi33.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fd87%2FAydynj%2FTireWidth.jpg

Take that chart with a pinch of salt though, it implies that you couldn't run a 23mm tyre on an A23 rim (17.7mm internal width)

It's legal to do it by conventional means (e.g. shotgun*, peregrine falcon, cat), but anything too unconventional might get you into trouble on animal cruelty grounds.

*Assuming you have a licence for the shotgun, and operate it safely. I don't know the exact laws and regulations on destroying vermin on your own land with fire arms, but I'm guessing any downrange projectiles landing on other people's property is frowned upon :-)

I was thinking more some kind of pigeon I.E.D placed in the gutter above my window where it likes to position itself for maximum annoyance.

Or the Roald Dahl drugged raisins might go down well...

Little fucker. It's an aggy wee bastard too-tries to beat all the other pigeons up. Begging for a slap down it is.

It's an aggy wee bastard too-tries to beat all the other pigeons up. Begging for a slap down it is.

It is protecting its young which are in a nest nearby, that's why it is making a lot of noise and driving away the others.
The young birds will then starve to death slowly in the heat, probably take a few days, miserably wasting away, hoping against hope that their parent returns with some food

Where does J12 go? #herebedragons

J12 is the wonderful village of Theale where I lived until I was 18, you can just about see my house from the bypass, my dad still lives there. You might be able to see the room I lost my virginity in. If you drive through the village you'll drive down the high street where the borrowers was filmed and I met John Goodman as a child, you'll pass the paper shop that I delivered papers for and a shop on the right that used to be a bike shop that I spent a lot of time in but is now an estate agents or some shit. Carry on down the road and you'll pass the church where we used to smoke weed when in was wet and then my primary school. Further down is a road called Lambfields next to my secondary school where we used to smoke cigs at breaks. You'll then leave the village and rejoin the bath road and pass the spring inn on the left where I used to work and then see the quaint village of Midgham where my ex used to live and I spent a lot of time drinking as a 16/17 year old with friends, I think Scherrit might live here now. Then you'll come to Thatcham where I worked as a lifeguard for a while and then Newbury. How you could turn down this tour of my formative years I just don't know.

It is protecting its young which are in a nest nearby, that's why it is making a lot of noise and driving away the others.
The young birds will then starve to death slowly in the heat, probably take a few days, miserably wasting away, hoping against hope that their parent returns with some food

So I should find where he lives and set fire to his house? I like your thinking.