White and gold Brother, white and gold.

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...and feeling at one with the bike, like a higher power was guiding your every move, it was almost spiritual.

#bornagain #fixieiscoming

Upload from mobile... the image was too large. Oh the irony, maybe I should change the settings.

And as he awocke, thy faced the original seven sins.

Which means... Android Gallery share to Drive, access Drive on laptop download to export .zip, extract .zip, open files in Gimp, Scale Images, export as .jpg, drop image quality to 80%, overwrite originals... come back to LFGSS and upload.

Yeah, I should just auto-resize large images down to reasonable ones.

The bike...

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I see the bike, still convinced the boss is trolling us all though...

Not trolling.

It's a fun ride. I feel 8 years younger.

In which case, awesome.

2007 revival ride? Nice frames, awful components and a smug sense of self importance?

good work.
gold chain is strong look

that's a gold chain,a gold seatpost, 2 gold hubs, a gold lever and a gold stem away from being porn

^ needs 4 gold nipples for improved wheel balance.

I've been trying meditation to help fight the depression and gloom that set in post-Microcosm. One of the books I read spoke a lot about how to view the world, how to experience life... it spoke of the beginners' mind.

This quality that children have that everything is new. It doesn't mean that you should cease to be an adult, cease to recall your experiences, but that a child experiences even the things that have been experienced before and soaks up the experience. It's not done out of habit... the moment is lived.

I wanted to get back to that feeling on the bike. Where the commute isn't done on auto-pilot, and where it's fun and exhilarating again. All of the benefits of utility, the creature comforts of panniers, racks, gears, etc... they to some extent diminish part of the act of experiencing.

And yes, it feels like 2007 again... the heavy messenger bag leaving aches across the chest now that I've started wearing it again. A subtly different set of muscles being used a fraction more. And the fun is there again too... cruising through Hyde Park this morning was lovely. The silence of the moment, watching the movement on the water and just riding with a grin rather than the default concentration face that comes from fighting with traffic out in Kensington.

The ride is fun, the bike is fun. I'm glad I remembered it could be and had this bike made. And yes, it's silly... it's supposed to be. It reminds me it's supposed to be fun, and it is.

It has 4 gold nipples.

2 on each wheel, 1 either side of the valve.

Gold sprocket and lock ring too.

Hehe.
I look forward to next Thursday!

It's wonderfully obnoxious. Well played, Sir.

Would rep.

Inspired me to rebuild the fixed skiddahs rear wheel and get back to basics. Just in time to ignore the practical scoblebiek I finished servicing last night...

It doesn't even look that bad. Only the brakelever is shit and you should tape the bars(:

maybe you've been meditating too hard

Brake lever will be changed.

No, that's just constipation.

I do like those Brother 725 frames but because LFGSS i will sprout useless and unwanted opinion. I don't actually mind the gold hubs/chain/sprocket but the gold ano stem and seatpost (and temp lever) just look like cheap plastic mouldings. Probably be OK if they were more champagne than burnt gold.

Overall though, who cares. Back on Fixie!

is it awful that i quite like it bar the saddle

This thread is just wishing my 'beater' arrives sooner so I can convert to fixed and ride around London town with a big smile on my face again.

Also...

Aiming for a 2 week turnaround from today

Not bad. 18 days it took, end-to-end.

I would've got away with it were it not for those pesky spoke lengths.

The wheels are nice, I do have the hybrid crows foot going on... though the high flange is so high that to have the radials on the outside risks the cross pokes and the hub itself. So the radials are on the inside of the hub, and the 2-cross (now 1-cross, but 2-cross in length) are on the outside.

Dave @ LMNH built the wheels and did a damn good job.