For Sale: 60cm Bob Jackson bike with Phil Woods, CXP33, Sapim, Record Pista, Brooks, Nitto Drop

As for the wheels, hybrid crows foot = half 2-cross and half straight. I don't know whether to attribute how great those wheels are to that spoke pattern or the spokes themselves (Sapim CX Ray). They ride incredibly smoothly though and really deliver power when you want them with very little flex.

Its the spokes. The pattern aint all that hot. The spokes are. Sapim are great.

Okay, everyone. You can stop badgering David for £££ info now. I bought it for £500 for my dad. He's 6'2", rode fixed in the 60s, and having decided his old Rory O'Brien was knackered, liked the look of the yellow BJ.

He's thrilled, but complaining about how slow it feels… but realises it'll get faster when he does. Thanks again, David.

well done, you are a good son.....

.... because you are paying, right?

It's another forum success story.

Eight five mutherfucking three.

Lucky old Mr Me My Fix.

Wow, sold already! This is a joy to ride, it iwll make the new owner very happy indeed.

Wait. Did you just sell Fruitbat's bike?

ha!

Really really good price!!

Really really good price!!

Indeed.

Really really, really good price.

Its the spokes. The pattern aint all that hot. The spokes are. Sapim are great.

That's good. I selected them for the new build too.

£500. That is a beautiful bike for that money. Can't wait to see what you've got to replace this, must be special.

does this mean the leader of lfgss no longer has a fixed gear or single speed bike?

Yup.

For the moment.

The whole point of the new bike is to allow me to do things that I was finding hard on the track bike or road bike. I want full mudguards, I want to be able to tour (carry luggage), I want to be able to travel easier and cheaper (S&S couplers so that it fits in a standard-ish suitcase), I want gears available for when I do cross mountains, I still want low maintenance, I love the idea of a dynamo-hub... yet I still want fixed or single speed and a really clean bike a lot of the time too, and ultimately I don't have space for many bikes so needed to think of one bike and how to transform it for many purposes. What in the end means, a great frame and multiple wheelsets to produce multiple bikes with a total lower cost and minimal storage requirements.

So the new bike is designed around the vision of "build a frame that allows the resulting bike to be a geared tourer, a singlespeed cyclocross, a fixed city bike". And that's what I've done.

However it's true, budget constraints (my being broke most of the time) means that from the outset the frame will only have 1 wheelset, which is the geared and dynamo-hub one. So until I get the second wheelset in probably 4 months time, I'll be trundling around geared... this somewhat seems appropriate given my nome de plume.

£500. That is a beautiful bike for that money. Can't wait to see what you've got to replace this, must be special.

surely the £500 post from BMMMMMF was a joke, Sparkster?

clearly that huge bike would not fit the father of the diminutive BMMNNMMF

£500. That is a beautiful bike for that money. Can't wait to see what you've got to replace this, must be special.

BMMF was kidding. Not that I mind, he's just ruined the potential price for anyone else looking to sell their bling if the price of mine was so low... so potential bargains for me in the future ;)

surely the £500 post from BMMMMMF was a joke, Sparkster?

No. He was deadly serious. BMMF's father loves his new bike, the one he had back in the day was yellow too. And I felt it was such a cool thing to sell it to someone who would love it so much, so of course I didn't mind the price.

clearly that huge bike would not fit the father of the diminutive BMMNNMMF

You're such a cynic. Get over yourself. My dad's 6'2", my brother's 5'11". I'm the same height as the dwarf-like grandparents.

it was a fair guess though, you'd have to admit.

it is really cynical to think that a shorter man might have a shorter father?

See - you can tell by the headtube (etc) he's a 6-footer:

Me = not yet awake and more gullible than usual.

I'll slope away and get some coffee...

is it me or does he look a bit like a younger Gordon Brown?

It's you. Anyway, he's English. It's my mum who's a Scot.