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I agree with all the above.

We are all differently built - so move stuff around !

It is shocking what a cm here and there can do.

Expect a few place to ache after your first long ride.

aidan Like Aidan said I had some drops on there, have only just got those bars and just haven't bothered to take the tt protector off.
These be the tyres…

Cheers ! :)

@ Slamm - nice bike !!

what is the top tube protector thing for ? - If the bars swing around do they make contact ??

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Cheeerss

They are his Vatican issued 'king of the mounting' socks.

Having no brakes makes you ride slower.

danger joel it doesnt matter who won once you notice the socks the chritian guy is wearing

You spelt 'charlatan' wrong.

Leave them on.

kilgore_trout if thats the case, the christain is the more aggressive peddler.

With the catholic church's recent proclivity towards child rape and pedophilia, I think neither of them would have a chance against a reverend father with a picture of a young boy's backside pinned in front of the bike.

;P

the-smiling-buddha talking about simplistic angles and demagoguery try listening to rush limburgh or the savage nation both avaliable on line more Americans listen to Micheal Savage on their daily commute home than watch CNN as these gentlemen would have it said global warming is little more than a myth invented by American liberals and euroweenies to temper Americas capitalist edge the debate in America is still wide open and it being fought between Good Morning America on one hand and the Sean Hannity show on the other and Al Gores thirty thousand dollar electricity bills, heavy use of private jets & some inconvenient errors in his 'inconvienient truth' leave him wide open to attack where it matters the most , in the heartland of America, ought not the poster boy of climate change be above the partisan debate...?

Points taken.

Better this than than peddling nasty misanthropic mythology to children as inerrant truth.

Excuse the pun.

the-smiling-buddha, if you want to be involved in the (wider) argument learn the issues rather than pander to simplistic angles and demagoguery, we are all hoping people like you can come through, you are important, views from people like you are important.

Toe them in !

Looking from above, make sure the front edge of the pad touches the rim fractionally before the back edge - if the pads are parallel with the rim then they will make contact all at once and often squeel.

friends don't let friends post drunk. ;)

scott not scot man,i've ridden brakeless from day one....i live in a quiet scottish village where there is no such thing as 'street cred'....i do it cos i wanna do it,cos i enjoy it....when i ride in a busy city i still ride brakeless....i don't give a funk if anyone thinks it's cool or not....ride what ya wanna ride!

Why do you enjoy riding brakeless?

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andrewleitch86 [quote]dogsballs very good idea to match cinelli bars to stem, as they have a weird 26.4 clamp ;)

Yeah I've read about that. Soem of the stems come with a 26.0mm clamp so I'll have to watch out for that too although I read that it's possible to squeeze 26.4mm bars into a 26.0mm stem. Just doesn't work the other way around.[/quote]

Two or three wraps of nicely cut beer can does the trick.

flickwg weight: shouldn't bee too heavy, my present drops are bout 700-800g the scales were changing, these bars say about 800

That is super heavy !

It is not a great comparison but my flat Easton EC90 CNT bars are 92g.

My old Easton CT2 Monkey Lite Riser was 148g.

kipsy ....can you recommend a good and cheapish! DVD cam?

Of the consumer formats, for both standard definition and High definition.

DVD cam = ok quality
HDD cam = better quality
DV = best quality

If quality is not your main concern a DVD cam is pretty convenient.

I wouldn't hold out too much hope of using a DVD cam or a HDD cam on a bike as the vibration will stop the lazer (on a DVD) or writing head (on a HDD) and 'park' it when you go over your very first bump, I have no experience of using a DVD cam on a bike, but I did mount a little JVC MC500 (a HDD cam) on the front of my bike and even a slightly rough road (think: every road in London) parked the write heads even at slow speeds, I imagine that the DVD cam would do much the same.

DV (tape based) is not only superior quality (I have shot stuff on DV for Channel 4 and the BBC - and they are pretty fussy) but does not suffer the above problem, as the tape is wrapped helically and tightly around the record head, so you can strap it to a mountain bike going down hill at 30 miles an hour and it will continue to record. DV, DVD and HDD are now all around the same price (perhaps HDD being a little more expensive).

Your other option would be one of the newer solid state cameras, no moving parts, shake it all you like, it don't mind !

ChrisNW I use this technique when tightening mine (ahem, headset that is!):

Tighten up until it feels tight (obviously not overtightening and wrecking the bearings/cups), back it off a little.
Hold front brake on and rock bike back and forth (be gentle) with hand around top cup and top of head tube.

Just keep tightening gently until you can feel no play when rocking back and forth.
If you think you may have over-tightened, back it off and start again.

Same here, identical technique, worked fine for the last 15 years !

risi thing is the results are really not all that great, considering the amount of time he must've spent making it.

It's not a real steady cam. There are no counterweigths and no dampening. Springs alone don't help that much.

Actually I didn't see the little movie link when I posted that - and yes you are right the results are not great for what looks like quite a bit of work, a lot of the vibration has gone but it still swings all over the place.

I would call anything that stabilizes camera motion a 'steady cam' (of sorts), the Coen brothers use a large plank of wood with the camera in the middle and a bloke on either end to stabilize the camera for moving shots in a lot of the their films.

Here is a hand held steady cam thing I made a couple of years back (counter weights and all) - without the camera mounted. It is mainly from skips, old bike parts I had lying around and general rubbish people had thrown out - the main base bar is a an old spirit level, the centre pole is two stanchions off a dead manitou suspension fork held together with seat post clamps, a 1-1/8th stem for the hand grip, a old crutch for arm support etc etc - the only thing I bought was the little monitor for something like £40 from Maplins. I even made my own counter weights by melting roofing lead in a pan on the stove and pouring the molten lead into ingots.

Jesus fucking christ, didn't I have anything better to do ! Still the results were great, I might think about designing a lightweight bike mount (??)

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/2324/29cg.jpg

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/1708/12ru4.jpg

For the truly dedicated, a home made bike steady cam:

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY%3a-Bicycle---Steady-Cam---mount/

dicki, that pretty much describes the Swiss cottage/Camden pitch, lights, no gaps, they built it perfectly level and symmetrical, has it's own park area that people sit around in, a posh café, a greasy café and a outdoors theatre bar (the back of Hampstead theatre) that all look onto the court and lots of passing traffic.

Although if the Columbia road court had got all this that sounds cool as well, especially because I don't live far from Columbia road and I am essentially a very lazy person.

You could stick this (below) on your helmet (sorry about the massive picture!) - and feed in into the AV inputs on (most) video cameras, the camera can then be in your rucksack/bag.

SpyCam™ - £39.99 from Maplins

http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/Full/n84cj.jpg

You might need an adjustable stem: