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thunder and lightening in brixton now. must be heading south..

slamm: I love the light streaks on your photos man - very picasso!

And mareeoh had one where the reflectors on the back of several people's shoes come out like stars - it's like being your own constellation..

just wanted to add my thanks to mareeoh and ma3k for organising and keeping it all together. also to cornelius and (i'm sorry I don't know your nickname - guy with the brown langster) for stopping to help when I got a cramp going through the tunnel on piccadilly!

I checked my odometer this morning and it says 133 km total distance. Seeing as I only put the bike together on friday night and it's a new computer (as the old one was on my old bike when it got stolen) I reckon we did about 110 km last night. (btw, top speed in one of the sprints was 47 kph :)

well that was a larf :)
sorry to have missed out on the primrose hill sunrise but I joined the band of southeners heading south from piccadilly circus - maybe next time we can finish at crystal palace!
nap time now...

i asked at brick lane about getting some aeroheads, but they weren't sure how much demand there would be for them - especially since they'd probably have to get some in each colour. but if enough of us ask about them they might change their minds.

also they've just started stocking deep vs at cavendish cycles, so they might be willing to order aeroheads.
i wasn't too keen on ordering them from 52x13 or whatever the place is called as I wanted to see them first - I've read reports that the quality is a bit variable.

edmundane hey natureboy i've got a spare back wheel.
16t cog. if you got a lockring tool you can swap it for a 17t i have.
i'm south too so it'll be easy.

cool - thanks! just let me know when and where to pick it up.
how exciting - I'll finally be able to get the new ciocc on the road

btw, what rims are those? are they mavic gel 280s by any chance?

I'd go for tape. My bike came with sprints when I bought it and I used them with tape for many years before eventually switching to clinchers a while after I moved to London (too much bloody glass in the road). You just have to get the knack of pulling the backing off the tape from under the tyre without twisting the tyre out of position. Never tried glue but it sounds like a PITA.

she's probably just a weather balloon..

I have some campag brake levers from about 1990 with the white rubbery hoods. They were up until last week attached to some cinelli road bars but I put the bars on the building i'm building. You can have them too once I work out what kind of stem and bars the new bike wants.

btw. does anyone have a spare back wheel i could borrow for saturday's ride? my new one is taking an age to get built...

redeye to be honest dude, I live in Barcelona!

so brixton cycles not that much use to you then...

hippy jefefelipe: Was your bike parked in Kensington on Uxbridge road tonight? Spotted a blue jobbie with bullhorns as well as passing a bunch of couriers. I think fixies and singlespeeds now outnumber Bromptons!! ;)

it wasn't a blue and white frame with chromed forks and stays was it?

they sell the vertex at brixton cycles too.

stef - surely a 3/32 chain isn't going to work properly with a 1/8 chainset and cogs?
Do you mean they're using a whole 3/32 drivetrain?

if you miss any days you can get torrents here.

You'll need to set up a bittorrent client though.

ahem back to the bike porn:
talk about bling...

Found a slightly more recent (ie less than 10 years old) picture of my bike that went missing 3 weeks ago. Still a crap picture mind (phone camera) but at least it shows the whole bike this time. So, this is how it was in 2005 - since then the turn-ups on the end of the bars got sawn off, the bar tape went blue, and so did the tyres. Not much hope of getting back now I suppose - bastard cops couldn't be bothered to look at the footage from the cctv camera at the end of my road.

last time I was in a police station (to report the stolen bike sigh) I read a leaflet which almost convinced me it was a bad idea. However, I'm going to Womad at the end of the month so that's that.

Brixton! And I work in Mile End.
So that's south and east but not southeast.

I'll be up for this if I can just a get a back wheel sorted out in time...

chuckle
seriously, the most beautiful thing you can make with a bunch of bike parts is a bike.

I'm south too. And east. (I work east).

re. braze ons: I just want to remove some cable guides off the top tube - I was thinking about having a go at them with a dremel tool, but I'm having second thoughts now!
rakan: which threads were you referring to?

This is a pretty sweet frame - alas, not my size...

If they're anything like the 80s record hubs I had then it's pretty straightforward - you just need some cone spanners and take your time, work in a clean area (you may laugh but I know someone who took his loose bearing bb apart in the garden, on the lawn - great place to drop a bearing!).

I like using citrus degreasers as they're quite powerful - just soak for a few minutes, rinse, repeat... Never tried actually polishing the bearing surfaces with metal polish. Are you going to install new ball bearings? Anyway, for the final reassembly, I like to use one of those cleaning cloths you get when you buy spectacles to give a final dry and wipe of bearings and races as they don't leave any fibres behind. Obviously, you don't want any degreaser at all left in the hub when you regrease them.

Once it's all back together, the final adjustments of the locknuts can be a bit fiddly as you
want to aim for just tiniest amount of play in the bearings when everything is tighted down off the bike - at least for quick release axles, as the axle is compress when you tighten the lever. I guess for solid axles you don't need to do that. Anyway, the more cone spanners the better here as you want to know exactly where each cone and locknut is on both sides so you can make fine adjustments.

Maybe this is all obvious stuff...
btw, there are some record track hubs on ebay at the moment at just over 100 pounds with 3 days to go. Are yours similar to those?

Looks good! Colours are good, typefaces good. Like the 'Forum' link :) Agree that the line length is a bit long.
Also, when I went go the 'Gallery' page, in the blurb at the top, where the end of the paragraph reads 'Brick Lane Bikes', the word 'Bikes' was tracked out for some reason. I can't seem to reproduce it now - that paragraph comes out centred when 5 minutes ago it was justified - perhaps you just changed it right now?

A couple of things about the /home/ page: Firstly, on my browser (Firefox 2.0.0.4, Mac OS X) the on-hover white background only just comes up to the top of the characters - I mean, there's padding at the bottom but not at the top, so it looks a little odd. I don't know if this is a browser quirk or something you can fix in the css. Secondly, my screen being 1024x768, the home/ page comes out with the logo at the top nicely composed with the green box below it, but then I get just the tops of the two rounded Velocity/Surly boxes peaking out beneath it. It just struck me as a little odd as the top part of the page looks like a nicely composed 1 screen's worth of info, rather than one of those loo-roll type pages where it's obvious that you have to scroll down for more things. Don't really know what to suggest - that's just what I thought when I saw it.