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mmmmmatthew:)

Ex 'clone rider, now delivering boats somewhere, AFAIK...

my case in point, as I said earlier, the bike could be auctioned on ebay afterwards and the money donated to the LCEF.

on that basis alone, I'm in. Although I can see the LCEF having to pay out to jos after this thing falls apart and he ends up being surgically rebuilt..

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looks like we got the cash already. if you want more let me know...

;154109']I know that the threaded area on newer miche hubs is a tiny bit wider than some sprockets requiring a spacer.

Since i relegated mine to the polo bike, spacer=a bunch of ring pulls i found on the floor of the polo court, jammed between the cog and lockring.

You are invited to the **Second Annual Bicycle Film Festival Polo Tournament
**when: OCTOBER 5, 2008

read the full thread at:

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread5258.html

You are invited to the **Second Annual Bicycle Film Festival Polo Tournament
**when: OCTOBER 5, 2008

read the full thread at:

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread5258.html

right. back to the rubbish discussion..

Dear northern polo players

You are invited to the **Second Annual Bicycle Film Festival Polo Tournament

**when: OCTOBER 5, 2008
where: London. Somewhere bigger than last year..

read the full thread at:

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread5258.html

One for the diary:

OCTOBER 5, 2008

To close another London run of the Bicycle Film Festival, the second annual Polo Tournament will be held on October 5. Take your chances against a team of professional polo players..

To register your team of three please contact polo@bicyclefilmfestival.com

Registration is free.

Tons of great prizes, drinks, food and tricks competitions!
If you are interested in sponsoring the event please contact polo@bicyclefilmfestival.com or laura@bicyclefilmfestival.com

8th Annual Bicycle Film Festival LONDON
October 1-5, 2008
Barbican Cinema
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London

The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. We are into all styles of bikes and biking. If you can name it-Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Cycling to Recumbents- we've probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance? We bring together all aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport us in many ways. Ultimately the Fest is about having a good time.

Interested in volunteering for the festival?
Contact volunteer@bicyclefilmfestival.com or laura@bicyclefilmfestival.com

1 small airfix
1 small rampant rabbit
no cunts

Theres usually loads on the 'bay. 32/40 used to be standard. All Ive got spare right now is an old bayliss unit hub (kinda heavy, but awesome for making weird custom freewheel clusters..) Ive got an old airlite soon to be spare too, but i havent worked out how to get a stripped 3speed block off it yet..

how do they do that? i know they are custom bars but is that flange just sitting next to the tuck or is it clamping somehow?

I think its brazed onto the bars before theyre chromed. Those are the bars with the integrated stem right? The stem,bent bars and those cute flanges are all one object that gets chromed. Sachas stuff is just amazing. Its all about the details..

Its an unthreaded fork with a ahead headset on 1 and 1/8th inch tube.
Can you get a new headset that size ?.
Basically want a quill stem and 25.4 bars.
Thanks

sorry...I wondered why you were having trouble:)

threaded 1 1/8 headsets arent that hard to find. Think old school mtb. I think theres one outside..The problem is you need a threaded fork. again, think old school mtb/my back yard, but youll be lucky to find a 700c version, so you'd have to thread your existing fork. And if you think its hard finding a shop that will cut a 1" steerer thread,try finding one that even still has a 1 1/8 die.

And then you have to find a 1 1/8 quill stem. Not too hard if you want 80s mtb steel in a range of nasty colours, but youre sol for that njs drop stem. Although if you want to make something really nasty i guess you could use a regular 1" quill and the steerer shim from one of the converters i linked to earlier..

25.4 bars will shim nicely into any 26mm road stem though.Theres even a nitto custom shim for exactly this situation.

I'm sure I had an old one somewhere. Theyre kind of ugly, but I guess they work. I know theres an ITM one. Mine came with shims to fit pretty much anything.

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ah, google....

http://www.fisheroutdoor.co.uk/public/index.php/product/stems/stems_push/stems_push_leisure/HS2105.html

or for only £5.80

http://www.cyclebasket.com/products.php?plid=m9b9s402p1109

"It's one of this tats" Wish I could be gramatically (is that spelt right?) correct when I start drinking red wine...

's okay. Its a crhis carsh thread. spelling is optional...

i pretty much no nothing and im always wrong... so this shouldnt be a problem :)

I thought that was chirs chrash's job :)

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welcome to the forum, btw...

yeah losers. where was everyone? :) just because it rains a bit..

Are those old stronglight 80s? yeah. the rings are toss. I think theyre made of popcorn. I should have a 48t ring you can have, but you'd be better getting something stronger/better.

oops. that was today. I was going to stop by..maybe next week. Incidentally, I dont suppose youve got bb/head tube/crown race facing tools amongst those boxes? :)

For real puncture resistance, and still cheap enough to skid through, how about a rubino with a bontrager hardcase inside?

Thats one of shoreditch's finest nails right through my (outer) tyre..didnt puncture though. And we dont talk about the extra weight:)

And youll be pleased to note that xander has finally migrated to a £12 on-one cog with teeth:

http://www.houseofpistard.com/2008/04/mechanic-ing.html

Advantages?
You have one lying around?

Disadvantages? Lots

the main advantage is that when you take off the wheel to fix a puncture or whatever, the wheel will go back to exactly the same place so you won't need to re-align your brake pads.

'cept if youre building a fixed bike theres a reasonable chance you probably wont be using the rear brake, and will probably just remove it

And you can use quick release as you never have to worry about the wheel slipping in the horizontal drops.

Right. except that to get chain tension you'll probably need those horizontal/semi horizontal drops. Unless you use something like the eno hub, which doesnt have q/r because its just not strong enough.

Theyre both great reasons for using vertical drops on geared bikes, or ss bikes with some other chain tension device, but theyre not ideal if youre building a fixed project

There's always the magic gear option, which sheldon talks about here:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed-conversion.html#vertical

Which kind of works, as long as you dont mind chain stretch destroying your chain tension :(

yep. way better than the cheap stamped stuff. Ive had one since july when nobody had the eai in the size i wanted and the on ones were a tenner. Almost 9 Months of courier use, still in good shape...

now, people talking on phones while crossing the road without looking, that's a different story. those fuckers are asking for it!

I find calmly riding past them and taking the phone out of their hand usually gets their attention..

Yeah, he's not the fastest at responding to email either, but if you call him he's really helpful. I've never waited more than a few days for stuff from him..

asm 48x17 is a pretty aggressive gear for riding on the streets, brakeless, with tubs

The 1950 Gillott and I did L'eroica (200k,mostly on unpaved gravel roads) with a 50x20 and tubs. Grip is so overrated.
Right now its got a 23x7 inch pitch, which means I can kick dales ass on the track at vintage day...its a little steep for the road though :(

incidentally,dont suppose anybodys got a 9tooth inch pitch cog lying around so i can take it out again? Dont make me fit a brake...

velocity boy
Journalists have forever mid-understood, mis-represented and simply not got subcultures.

I dont know. I think there are plenty examples of great journalists documenting subcultures. Hunter S. Thompsons Hells angels book, for example. But they all come from writers taking time and making an effort to understand that culture.
I do take your point. This is a frickin' newspaper. On a Sunday. Its easy like sunday morning entertainment for people who got wasted on saturday but want to prove they didnt quite destroy all their brain cells. What were we expecting?
As bikesnob said:
If you're unfamiliar with the [new york] Times, it's sort of an obituary for subcultures, in that once yours appears there then it's already dead.

I'm sure Ms.F. is a perfectly nice person. She seems to be. And I like journalists. I used to be one. I still live with one. I just have no interest in collaborating with media I have no editorial control over. Media whos primary aim is to sell their brand/product on the back of my culture and (mis)represent it according to the percieved values of their readers. I'm glad you mentioned the Mail. I like to hope it'd have been an easier call to just hang up if they'd called instead of the Observer.

Incidentally, over on MovingTarget, theyre debating the ethics of messengers appearing in a McDonalds commercial...