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• Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

  in Bikes & Bits • 12 years, 6 months

  

  Is there any guru in the Dalston area who'd wanna have a look at a racer I've got? I'm after a bit of advice on what it is and what to do with it, I'll buy said guru a beer in return.

• What's your favourite gear ratio?

  in General • 12 years, 6 months

  

  44/16 seems to have found me.

• Welcome

  in General • 12 years, 6 months

  

  Been cycling London for years now, always found the site really useful so I thought I'd come out of the shadows and announce myself.

  Say hello if you see me on my green genesis flyer.

  Chris.

• Ways not to lock your bike

  in General • 12 years, 7 months

  

  This needs at least a picture drawn because my simple brain fails to grasp how you did this.....like those bloody wood and string puzzles with a ring you have to release....unless you used magnets...then I get it....

  They'd double parked me and fed their chain through the middle of my frame, so I had to feed it back through. It was like re-tracing your steps using a ball of string. Except the string was a Krypto chain and it wasn't a sweet fairy tale, it was a fucking ballache.
  Defo picked up a few scratches on my frame too, it was a snug old fit.

• Ways not to lock your bike

  in General • 12 years, 7 months

  

  It was a few years ago now but someone once locked their Brompton through my bike outside my office in Canary Wharf. I proudly just folded the thing up and passed it through my frame.

  Happened again though, with an un-foldable. Had to wait 3 hours for the guy to come back after Canary Wharf security had tried to bust it free.
  He said to me "I was careful not to do that".

• Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

  in Bikes & Bits • 13 years, 1 month

  

  Hi Guys,

  Just picked up this frame, anyone heard of the name? It's Frank Shaw.

  It seems pretty nice, super light and came with campy and cinelli components. On the wheel it says "Handbuilt by frank Shaw Camberley" but an internet search throws up absolutely nothing.

  Can anyone help?

  Photos

  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/70218128@N08/6372560271/in/photostream
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/70218128@N08/6372570795/in/photostream
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/70218128@N08/6372578229/in/photostream

  Fanks!

• Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

  in Bikes & Bits • 13 years, 1 month

  

  Hi Guys,

  Just picked up this frame, anyone heard of the name? It's Frank Shaw.

  It seems pretty nice, super light and came with campy and cinelli components. On the wheel it says "Handbuilt by frank Shaw Camberley" but an internet search throws up absolutely nothing.

  Can anyone help?