My Dawes of (im)Perfection.

Enjoyable update as usual!

Amazing job on those rivets

Ta TvH, having a friend that had 3 rivet setting tools made the job a bit easier. A hammer and vice also but I had those already.

Things I have learned this weekend.

1) A 21.1mm stem from your partners old bike may well fit but it'll loosen off.
2) A 22.2mm stem is the correct size.
3) Fitting the correct diameter stem with a lightly shorter reach (60mm) works bloomin' wonders.

Observez Vous....

Saturday, 47.91 mile 'test ride'...

"I wonder if I'm going as fast as I think I am...."

Sleeps soundly for the night.

Sunday, "just popping out for another test ride dearest...."

56.49 miles later...

So, 56.49 + 47.91 = 104.4 miles in total this weekend, whahey! My first ever 'weekend-100-mile total fixed gear ride, cheers LFGSS :)

I used to race against Fruit for London Gabor a lot and he was bloody fast. Not the fastest uphill but christ he could descend quickly. That's some feather to have in your cap in my eyes.

Chapeau for the 100 mile weekend too, next stop a 100 miles in a day? You'd sleep soundly after that.

OOOooo! Ta AndyP, that stretch was lovely and deserted (for a change) so I applied extra 'whahey' on that ride, I did it here on this section too an the same thing happened! :)

next stop a 100 miles in a day?

Defintely doable at 10mph averages, leaving at 6am, proper pub lunch, then finish off the next 50 miles back?

Hmmm, 100miles in a day, I dunno, stop giving me ideas you velo-bullies!!! :) I don't think its on the cards for a while yet TBH, most I've ever done in a day is 74 miles on the SS Carreraererereerrrrra skip-save bike. 100 on Scob's fixed might keel me over.

Really enjoying this thread. You won't be fatmanonafixie for long if you carry on like this!

Ta! But you under-estimate my love of food and ale, I'll always be a FOMOAF!

After Scobswell's speedster sessions up in London last weekend I thought I'd take him out of his usual environs and expose him to the delights of the countryside today.

We did the 'Figaro', it a figure-o'-8 shaped ride that I've never done fixed before let alone on Scobwell. It was bloomin' hard work but we did it. Way hillier than I'm used to...

Departed: May 21, '17, 11:06AM
Starts in: Dartford, England, GB
Distance: 55.2 mi
Elevation: + 4680 / - 4819 ft
Max Grade
25.6 %
Avg. Grade
0.4 %
VAM 725 Vm/h
Ascent time 01:58:07
Descent time 01:44:41
Total Duration: 05:13:14
Moving Time: 03:42:48
Stopped Time: 01:30:26
Max Speed: 32.6 mph
Avg. Speed: 14.9 mph
Pace: 00:05:40
Moving Pace: 00:04:02

Look at the pointy bits, boy oh boy do I feel unfit going up hills!

...but the views are nice when you've done one...

Scobs was great though, have I mentioned this before? :)

Max speed 32.6 what gear ratio you running :)
I hit 25 ish on my 42x16 and was spinning like the clappers.

Good show old chap :) must have been a big hill going down ( or did you lift feet off pedals)

48x19, downhill thats about as fast as my little legs can go. That descent from the top of Wrotham Hill down to the M20 Roundabout is a bit hairy fixed innit!

Nah, I don't lift feet off the pedals, I just go like the clappers, I can go fast but only over a shorter a period, there's a monster hill near Bluewater that I've bomb down for practise.

I took Scobswell back to London for this weekends fun run.

He enjoyed looking at London's famous flamable sinking buses whilst the pilot enjoyed a Ice Lolly at Lambeth Pier...

...and on the way back home we saw 3 of them 6 wheeler takeaway robots, it was like living in the future!

Lovely 51.6 miles of fixed-fun. Awethumne (still).

Eh ?

You live in an area with drone delivery's ?

Do they get stolen often ?

Nah, they're not in Dartford yet as far as I know, the 3 I saw on Sunday were 2 up by The Cut and the other one in Lewisham.

I think other robots come and poo on your bonnet if you mess with one of 'theirs' :)

Just poo or does a bigger one come round to vist :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlQwX93rqcA

RoboPoo.

Its worse than pidjjun poo so says a bloke down the pub!

:)

sure the kids down here would be able to hotwire them with a smart phone :)

:)

sure the kids down here would be able to hotwire them with a smart phone :)

I tried to do that Regents Canal loop that got posted in the rides section here on LFGSS today but had to abort at Camden as it was sooooooooo busy, the world and their brother n sisters (plus Jonty and Jemimah and their dog 'Trixy-Bellend') were out enjoying the towpath too, meh. I picked a bad day. I'll try again when they're all back at work and I'm not.

So I just took Scob's for a zig-zag wanderer trek in the end, lovely weather for just peddling and enjoying it. 60.6 miles in all,not bad for me.

Scobswell went out with a new mate today, he's now 'besties' with Freddie Falcon.

Remember that work mate I took out for a little ride a few weeks back? Well, he reckoned he was up for another ride this weekend after he's borrowed a bike from mate that he says is much more comfortable for him, a Falcon off the peg SS'er. I suggested aiming for Parliament Square cos both of us are Parliament/George Clinton fans, arf.

He did great, we rode this...

and made it with ease...

Good fun ride out.

I suggested aiming for Parliament Square cos both of us are Parliament/George Clinton fans, arf.

Ha!

Hee hee, we nobly resisted the urge to 'tear da roof off duh suckha...' being gentlemen cyclists in our 50's.

Brilliant. What's the plan for the Dawes? Turning it (him?) into a chair?

After a lot of thought, I'm letting nature give him a cuddle. He's going to 'integrate' with nature via a big Passion Fruit bush at the bottom of the garden. Art innits! My GF approves too.

S'funny but I tried to remove the BB from the Dawes and keep it as a spare, I removed one side and a load of rusty water came out, our-Ed was right... its rusting from the inside, yucky.