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rakan I never get why people find it so hard to do basic stuff like punctuation etc. on forums.
People who dont use like breaks are the worst though!
This is beginning to sound like a Radio 4 phone in...
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edmundane yeah i must have seen you then... blue bar tape?
ub night's tomorrow actually, if you're on the bridges ride... just hope the weather stays still like it did tonight. let it rain during the day as long as it doesn't for the ride!nice frame!! looking forward to that built up!!
yup that was me.
looking a bit wet for the bridges ride but I'll probably go to the Brick Lane Cycles party on Sunday. I'm going to hang around Brick Lane all day anyway so I can look for my old bike. I'll be a wreck of caffeine and nicotine by 6 o'clock! -
hey ed, I remember seeing your vitus! I was on a bright blue Condor (geared).
That guy was certainly a nut - he just came out of nowhere and knocked over about 3 people before the police grabbed him. He totally scratched up my brake lever but that's about it.well i'm off to some random party now where i can pretend to be younger than i am :-)
we should definitely arrange a pub night soon but i'll need some time to put my new ciocc
together :-)
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i just got back from it - it sort of fizzled out around parliament square for some reason.
I didn't see no big FGSS sign - who was there? (meaning, what were you riding!)
I have the dubious distinction of being the guy who got knocked off his bike when that nutter ran out of the crowds near charing cross road. honestly, it was the last thing i was expecting.
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the pinarello was pretty sexy - but it's difficult not to be when it's so damn red!
well, I just bought the Ciocc - that Italian charm proved irresistable. I asked Yan at BLC about it and he said it's a 15 year old Columbus SLX frame that had never been built into a bike. They found it unpainted in a bike shop in Italy on one of their forays. It's bright yellow now. Seems like a tight geometry - wheel base
is 93cm compared with 97cm for my squadra, chain stay about 40.5cm, but I don't know what's normal for a track frame.Thanks for all your advice! Now for important decisions like what colour rims to get...
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My road bike came with tubs back in '95. They were really nice - light and fast - but I bent the back wheel in crash and got it rebuilt with a clincher. The front I kept as a tub for years, in London too. Recommend you stick 'em on with tape not glue - it's fiddly but relatively quick and (I imagine) not as fiddly as glue. I never had any problems with the tyre coming unstuck.
tufos - tried one once but just didn't like it for some reason. maybe it was the noise they made.
eventually the hub failed (flange split - radial spoking :) and i switched to a clincher after that.
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well now that we have a proper thread for these, i'm going to put my stolen bike report on here (aplgs if you already saw this on the the other thread).
It was stolen from outside my house in Brixton - here's the description
[ulist][li] Tommasini 'Prestige' steel frame, smallish (I'm 5'7), blue fading to white at the back, yellow lettering, chrome forks and stays [li] cream selle italia saddle w. blue trim [li] sawn-off bull horn bars with blue tape and one brake lever in the bar end [li] oldish (late c. 1990) campy athena cranks and front brake [li] mavic open pros, suzue pro max flipflop rear hub + fixed-gear, campag chorus front hub, all w. QR axles [li] speedplay frog pedals
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I'm embarrased to say I've managed to find just one really bad picture of it, taken in 1996 when it was still a geared road bike, so ignore everything except the frame and seat post!
As a fixie, it looked almost exactly like this bike I found on fgg (except for the colours obviously).
Same cranks, same saddle, same tyres, same handlebars except I sawed off the final bends at the ends and I had just the one brake lever on the right.well, I guess you guys know what it's like to spend years building a bike and what it means to you after that. I can safely say that that bike spent more time between my legs that any other animate or inanimate object ;)
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Richard's Bicycle Book is great, 2nd edition (i think - i'll check when I get home) from about 1990. It's not just a tech manual but has lots of thoughtful and interesting musings/ramblings, and some nice illustrations. I've been hankering after a Speedy (recumbent trike) ever since but somehow never got round to it (probably something to do with not having a garage and 2000 clams to spare!). I think there was a later full colour hardback edition but it seemed to have lost the charm of the earlier editions.
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haha - i had spokey dokeys on my bike when i was 17. they came from a pack of shreddies if I remember correctly.
(* to the tune of 'It was a very good year')
when i was 17,
i drank some very good beer,
i drank some very good beer,
i purchased, with a fake ID.
my name was brian mcgee
i stayed up listening to queen,
when i was 17.
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hippy Bianchi have been making track frames for years. I actually quite like 'em - even the newer ones.
http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2520519050092547193YgCvpCoh, I know they've been making track frames for years :) I was only referring to retro-look chrome model.
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Knucklehead The decals look like they should be on the latest desk-top printer
funnily enough I just saw someone's triathlon/time trial bike in Edwardes that had a big Apple logo on it.
Not sure whether they're sponsoring him (unlikely!) or it's a diy job.Anyway, I went in there to have another look at the red pinarello - the guy in the shop said it was the only steel track frame pinarello do and they were discontinuing it after this year. i don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing... call me a traditionalist and/or a snob but welded steel just doesn't do it for me, so I think I'm crossing the pinarello off the list, along with the bianchi and the condor - plus, I'd much rather give my dosh to Yan at brick lane.
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[cite]Momentum:[/cite]I think there's a bike on FGG made by him and ridden by one of the Dublin messengers.
Is this the one? It doesn't look like a Dublin messenger's bike to me! Nice though..
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I've just been to brick lane cycles again - the gromada in the window is probably the only one in the country but Yan says he's got some more on order. He said that the company is quite new but the guy who welds them has been doing it for years. Have to say I'm intrigued, but I'm reluctant to blow 350 quid on a frame without at least one person saying they've ridden one and it was good! One of the girls in the shop said she's getting one built up but it'll be weeks before the frames arrive.
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no disrespect to anyone who owns a bianchi pista, here's a funny article about it...
i remember the first time i saw one - I thought it was beautiful, some sort of vintage classic, but then i saw several more, the most recent one being ridden next to me on the way home one evening so I could get a good look at it - it looked kind of rough and unfinished, as well as looking brand spanking new, so i figured bianchi must be cranking them out to cash in on the fg/ss craze. My guess is that as far as the engineering is concerned, bianchi have gone for style over substance, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
this guy seems to have an unreasonable number of nice bikes: