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Don't listen to them, David! Just buy the fecker. I know I would if I could afford it, and I'm the slowest fecker around!

Hardly a case of "all the gear, no idea".

I think I'd sell my baby son to buy that bike.

Used to have a lovely steel framed Colnago that was around 10 years old and about 3 inches too big! Some fcuker stole it from the car park at work 3 years back. Grrrr!

Enjoy the day and look forward to the call from your credit card company!!!

Thanks for the headsup Roberto, obrigado!

Uuuurhhh, neeeeeed tooooo goooo tooo toooilllettt.

...shudder...

That's better! Lovely bike. What shop you going to, David? Business or pleasure, or both!?

PS I took only one pic (with my phone), this of my mate getting stuck into a Chicken pie at the feed stop in Tenterden!

He also had a burger at Aldington!

Weather wasn't too bad, was it?!?

Had a nightmare start. After 15 miles the drive side of my old skool cup and ball Campag BB decided to unscrew. Cue miles and miles of riding on the little ring and in a poncy gear as to not strain it too much, along with stopping every 10 minutes to get it finger tight again. Went to the SRAM mechanical assistance at the first feed stop to be told in a very rude manner "we only do SRAM". Wankers. So ambled the route to the next feed at Aylesford, and then when the route dived left at East Malling I went straight on as my house is a couple of miles up the road in Leybourne. 20 minutes of swearing later all was fixed, and I went back onto the route proper.

Anyway, enough of that, my actual time was 8hrs 27 mins, while ride time was 7hrs 22mins. 15.6mph average, max 39mph. I reckon I lost 20 mins on the road with the wonky BB and (obviously) another 20 mins fixing the fucking thing. My mate who I was with hit the wall in spectacular fashion between Tunbridge Wells and Goudhurst so also I lost a bit of time there. Anyway, remember, it's not a race!!

I saw loads of fixies, all I can do is tip my hat and say chapeau!

Been meaning to ask you Roberto, have you got any 48T 1/8th 135PCD Campag rings?

Saw you down at Woodchurch, but you looked busy LOL

Not sure if you remember me, but I bought a rear track wheel from you in November last year, picked it up from your work in Stukeley Street!

velocity boy Doesn't look like they'll be much wind at all.

We just have light rain to deal with.

Looks like I need to get some overshoes of some kind.

That's the case on weather.co.uk but according to the BBC it's 16mph winds from the SSW!!!

Oh well, there's a few days for it all to change. We all know how crap the weathermen have been lately.

I suppose start times is a, errr, start.

Rider number 1595, off at 6:30am.

Good luck to all!

lol

I've seen loads of posts with several indicators of people riding this on Sunday. How about everyone signs in here, then posts after the ride on their experiences of the day, times, photos, etc?

If no-one agrees then just shoot me down in flames!

And no, I'm not doing this ride fixed, although I'm sure several are. I've just sold an EAI sprocket on eBay to someone riding it fixed, he picks it up on Friday, I'll point him to this ever expanding forum!

Yep, I got stung by Parcelforce's charges last year when buying my fixie frame. I was happy with the VAT, but the extra on top was a piss take.

STILL not built it up.

Fucking unbelievable!

Used to love playing Elite, although bizarrely I used to listen to Jean-Michel Jarre at the same time. Very sad....

Hi, hippy. 06:30 (Christ that's early). I'll be the one on the pink bike in black kit blowing it out of my ass after 30 miles!

Hi there! Gonna kill two birds with one stone here.

Been browsing the forum for a while now, I work with Brett. Currently trying to raise funds to complete the build of my fixie, hopefully it won't be too long!! Pics will follow once built, but basically it's a NYCBikes frame currently awaiting a spray job (see previous sentence!).

Anyway, here's one of my current bikes, I'm riding this on the Etape Anglais next week.

It's an early 90's Olmo running 10 speed Centaur with a 50/36 compact chainset. The paintjob is a pearlescent (flam?) Magenta, or pink as my mates call it. A few dinks here and there but I love it.

I also ride a hacked up old Carrera MTB and a Brompton but you don't want to see those.....

Anyway, hi everyone, hope to complete my build and see some of you soon (Brett excluded).