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I run a suicide-ish hub:

It's a flip-flop hub with fixed / free threads. I am running 48x19 on the freewheel side, using a Miche carrier as a "lockring", which is threaded in the same direction as the sprocket.

Both are on good and tight, but haven't been loctite'd.

I mainly brake with the front brake but do skid a bit on it, take it out in heavy traffic every day and have had no issues with it in 5 months.

Even though the 'lockring' and the sprocket are threaded the same way, I think it does help. My view is that the friction between the sprocket surface and lockring isn't perfect so that an even greater back torsion is needed to unscrew the lockring than would be needed to simply unscrew the sprocket. Just a touch more safety, but every little helps, right?

Anyway, you can all point at my corpse and shout "I told you so!" when it goes wrong.

Damn, now I've scared myself.

Am I being stupid?

I am going to attempt to get this thread back on topic:

I might be up for this - there is a work bash threatening which is going to be crap anyway. So will do my utmost to come on down. :-)

And now back off topic:

God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids.

Great fun last night, even though I had to shoot off early. Loved doing the Aldwych underpass with Jon, Tommy and Mask (I think?). The Charing Cross road bit was a touch hairy - hope all the wobblies manged to weave through the traffic okay...

And, props to the girl on the penny farthing - first time I've seen that at a mass. :-)

Elvis start on grass, its more slippery and so you'll skid more easily.

Agreed,;fast, straight skids on grass are soooo much fun.

But make sure you don't skid sideways at speed on grass: unlike on tarmac it won't slow you down, it will put you down. I am still nursing a cracked rib from doing just that :-(

I was wondering about no hand skids the other day - how feasible are they?

I was building up to having a go (on grass) when I completely lost it sideways and slammed really hard - that's how I did my ribs in. Think I'll leave it a while before having another go. Trackstand practice is where it's at now.

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris, you may be moments away from death.

My Campag mirage is in black. Mmmmmm.

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I am still so gutted about this. Only noticed yesterday that it made it into Time Out's top 5 sports events for this week.

If I was even vaguely track qualified I would have entered for sure - anything to get the numebrs up.

I'm quite up for this, given that the Cambridge ride seems to have evaporated...

Is there a list?

It's a lovely place. I think most people on this board are scared to ride out of London.

Wusses.

Well bum poo to the lot of you.

Hey, maybe we need a special 'list post' type that anyone can edit to add names to, but not delete from. velocity boy, does your magic extend that far?

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Come on guys, we've got a list. Who else is up for it?

Kelvin having my stag do in november seriously contemplating making roller race part of it

brilliant idea. rookie stag race. :-)

What? It's WC1 innit?

Well, a pub that was mentioned on another thread (and is central and near my flat) is the Lord John Russell on the top of Marchmont St. It has a covered terrace bit down the side which would be quite spacious for about 15-20 bikes or so.

And they sell dark Budvar which is pretty delicious. :-)

TheBrick(Tommy) chmod u+x tommy.fg

Total geek.

And I mean total.

Love it :-)

The trailer bike has been bought, was that you Samsonite?

GOOD LUCK, I remember it well, bloody scary.

I like the idea of a regular ride. Why not do it on a sunday to feed into bike polo? In NYC loads of people would hang around the polo games and watch, take part, talk shit, drink beer...

If we get an lfgss house we can use it to store the lfgss trailer that we were talking about buying off ebay and painting up all nice like. Oh, and Aidan.

OK, can we do November 24th? it's my birthday!

Go on samsonite, you lead the way.

Anyone got somewhere we can store it? Shame we can't just host it on a webserver!

TheBrick(Tommy) lets all chip in and get it. It could be a support vechial for rides.

It's also a great way to get the beer dead home from the pub. And, doesn't smear need a trailer?

If we got an londonfgss paint job on it - that would be stupidly great.

I like this idea, a lot.