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rideordie A friend of mine works in family business tattoo (http://www.myspace.com/domholmestattoo) and she will be working at the convention too. I think she works at £70 an hour which i think for central london is a genrally normal price.
She has tattooed quite alot of my friends but not me. But she is putting out some nice clean tattoos.
Have a look at the myspace page and see what you think.

Allright! I think I found the person to draw the hands I wanted.

I'll try to wake for the induction

Saturday list:

1. Alex
   

I can't.

I be away.

It happened, and it was fun. I won't be able to make it on the 27th because I will be in Brazil, but I'll be riding there, making a fixie for my little (not so little) brother. Not entirely sure what kinds of parts will be available, but I am taking my old back wheel and hoping for the best.

dt now all you have to do is wait is 4 years!!! :)

Well worth the wait.

Vanilla it is.

The other builders are great, and I doubt I could go wrong with any of them, but no one else's bikes give me the gut reaction that Sacha's do. They are just absolutely beautiful and everyone seems to have a lot of respect for him.

hippy Ride faster.

Fsck, I'm usually the guy wearing not enough that's borderline hypothermic on rides but today I had armwarmers on. t-shirt was a bit cold but I warmed up when going.
I tend to go from freezing in shorts and t to sweating like a mofo in jacket and knee warmers. Toe warmers when it gets really cold.
I really need to get some intermediate layers going on for autumn/spring.. or move back to Oz. :)

It's not fucking intuitive, right? It took me years to learn how to fress warmly because I came from a country with good weather year round.

What do you guys wear when it gets cold? I was going to continue with jeans and a cotton long sleeved top, but the top gets moist and cold, and I am tired of the taint abuse that jeans inflicts.

I'm riding velocities. They are not light and a bit harsh, but most people say they are bomproof (and I am treating them as if they were)

dicki woah there neddy you'll need to give us a few weeks warning ...... we haven't even got a list started for this one yet.... come on etiquette Alex

I never plan anything in advance. My life is far too structured - It's beer, man, beer!

mashton The place on Great Portland St, is it The Albany, just by the tube station?

Brilliant pub :-)

That's the one. It is really chill. I really liked it.

Tonight!

We'll at the Tate Modern around 7, and ride to The Peasant, in Islington, for a first beer. From there, we'll ride side streets (mostly) to a pub whose name I do not remember but that looks cool and has outside seating. From there, we'll head over to the Old Diary, in Finsbury Park, near chez moi, and a place with interesting décor and what seems to be good food, if anyone is hungry. On the way back, we'll swing by the Canal, near King's Cross for one more pint, hopefully by the waterside. We'll then wind back through Regents park (somehow, I have not figured this part yet) on to Great Portland street for a place I discovered last week that serves Raspberry beer on tap. We can disband there or go to the John Snow to finish the damage.

This will not be fast paced. It will be beginner friendly and I am trying to get some non-fixed mates to come along.

I can outrace any computer… last one that tried thought it could catch me and then the power cord ended and it crashed to the ground, and I’m all like “Yeah! Who’s your daddy now, bitch!?”

31trum thought this was a thread about heavy breathers

Spray without a mask, inhale deeply, and you get that... they call it fixie lung.

1. Samsonite
   
2. Stompy
   
3. BringMeMyFix
   
4. aidan!
   
5. brett (if can avoid hangover and drag sorry ass out of bed by 7am)
   
6. lpg
   
7. Jimmy P (I'll be there for the 10.30 session)
   
8. Alex (want to be there by 8:45 for the induction)
   
   

I will be riding from Finsbury Park, and can pick up other northerners on the way. Does anyone want to ride there from the north side or from central London (perhaps meet at the brick lane bagel shop around 7:15, leave by 7:30?)

architectom There is alot of tension/confusion about to whom we, non-messenger fixed riders owe our allegience. Some feel that the only legitimate fixed riders are messengers, that they are responsible for the heritage. I would credit them with keeping fixed alive, even reinventing it, but having raced road I now consider myself a recultivator of early cycling tradition, of something pure. I know this is abstract, but how do you all feel?

No one, just myself. I rode a Cannondale tourer for a while because I toured and liked the bike. I still don't think you can get a finer production bike than the 'dale. I ride fixed because one of my mates let me try his and I liked how it handled. The Cannondale gave way to a Bianchi Pista because the Pista was more fun, and the Pista gave way to the Courtney because it is a much better frame (the Bianchi looks cool but it is an entry level bike and it shows). I ride what I ride because I like it, eat meat because it tastes good and read the books I read because I enjoy them. There are over 6 billion people in the world and if anyone gets snooty about my choices in life, there are plenty others who don’t and who are probably much better company anyway.

I am not above elitism (I have my own), but I find elitists laughable more often than not.

I ran my moustache inverted. I did not like them very much because they are very wide and not very comfortable. Having said that, it is possible that the lack of confort had more to do with my stem reach than the bars themselves because the most comfortable position was a bit stretched for me.

Why don’t you try them for a while before you decide if you like them. I still have mine after swapping for track bars (I wanted something narrower).

I think I'll go with the sachs. I don't mind the wait, really. In 4 years my taste may change, but then I only need to decide what to build when it comes close to the time.

I am a few weeks from deciding what to have made, if I order anything. I am pretty happy with my bike as is and I may decide I don't need another. It's changed a bit. I got red Phils laced to gold Velocities in Atlanta, and a proper track bar:

http://ckdake.com/gallery/events/bikes/fm2407/img_9654.jpg.html

Lewellyn is in australia, right?

velocity boy Richard Sachs

Now try and disagree.

I am leaning towards him. He seems to be the guy that other frame builders mention. I think I'll give him a call.

Moyer and Mather look good, so does Sachs. Looks like Moyer and Sachs do couplers, which is the other requirement. My only problem with Sachs would be being locked into Campy. I am not saying they are bad components, but having a choice is nice. I think it will all come down to calling people and chatting with them. I like the idea of guys who work without assistants, but I am not sure that is the be all, end all of frame building.

Actually, the time frame is not unusual. Last I read the wait for a Sachs is 43 months.

Decisions, decisions...

If you were to get a lugged steel frame built, and money was not an object, who would you have build it? I am inclined to get a Vanilla bike, but before I commit, I was thinking that I should see what else is out there.

Here is their link. It takes 4 years from order to delivery:

http://www.vanillabicycles.com/about.shtml

Awesome race, my team came in 4th, I did 5 laps plus an extra one backing up our last rider. My team h ad the 3rd fastest female. The guys who won had some cat 3 racers, and they all rode either fixed or single speed.

Total laps when added up came to over 13K miles

http://24.fastermustache.org/2007/map/tracker.html