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peugeot U09

Ok well, i've pretty much picked all the parts for my bike, and pending paycheck I should be up and cycling in a week or 2, but there is still one bit missing:
The saddle any good recommendations?

glow [quote]asm cracked your windscreen?? Just how big IS this pothole?!?!

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Though if you look really closely, you'll see that even that pothole didn't break their windscreen. So how huge was it?

Ravensbourne, yer it is good fun, this is/was one of many, i'll still have one left after this though, but its just been sitting on a shelf for a while (it seems that the wind has died this year) i have tried like longboarding along a sea front path, that was good fun, all a bit crazy though, kite biking would just be a death wish though, even more so fixed. lol

yer well I generally do manage my money ok,
well that or maybe i was just quite lucky n managed to work a lot in the holidays.

the D100 was probably worth it though lol

the worse bit is that atm i'm looking at ebay n i've got to stop myself from spending the £51 lol

its all ok now, wierd eh

thats all very strange, I cant see my post i just posted, yet this works fine.
any ideas?

Well heres my problem:
I'm slowly building up my fixie bit by bit, but I have had to stall its progress due to bank balance (about £3, i'm a poor art student) but luckily my next paycheck is due in about a week (ish) and i have some stuff on ebay
Power Kite Anyone?
The trouble is I keep looking at the bits I need, and i just can't wait... I can hear my overdraft calling, but so far i'm resisting
Anyone got any ideas of some little things I can go to my frame?
Little free things I can do.

yer i love the fact that the reason for car tax is to pay for the damage they do to the roads (thus the bigger the car the higher the tax) the actual road building is taken out of general taxes i believe.

sorry i was bored and thought it would be a laugh to see what people said, I took everyone's advice and i got the 700x25 :D
Its been a dull night lol

I now have a set of 2 rubino tyres n tubes winging there way from ribble to me
in the end I decided it would be a laugh to get the 700 x 20 ones, its more of an incentive to cycle better and to avoid all of the crap on the roads.

nah i'm not getting them now. i can see why no one has bought them lol

brilliant, thanks for the info. I guess I shall wait till aug/sept then.

well there i was looking on wiggle for a set of rubinos and i notice that most of them arnt going to be in stock untill late aug, but they do have quite a few of the thinner (700 x 20) tyres. As far as I know these will fit my rims, but I was wondering does the width of a tyre affect? thanks

what size chainring is that based on though (48t?) I was thinking of getting a 44t (is that too small?) as i need a 3 pin chainring my options on chainring size are pretty limited atm.

eventually i will be around london, but atm i'm out in somerset, a little bit hillyer then london, but in town n around town so pretty level still

Unfortunately I have drawn a rather big blank, despite reading through reams and reams of sheldon browns thoughts, and searching many many forums I cant find a rough guide to gear ratios, not how to calculate them but rough recommendations for terrain. I know that everyone is different but i'm just looking for a rough recommendation of what might be good. Cause atm i wouldn't know the difference between a ratio of 3 and a ratio of 6 (though i am aware that its quite a big difference)

Please help

That cup holder scares me quite a bit, surely you wouldn't want scaulding hot coffee next to your hand, i dunno maybe thats just me?

yer they do seem a bit pricey, but the alternative is replace the cranks & possibly the bb, all of a sudden a pricey chainring seems like a good choice lol

yer us art types are always up for some alternative fun lol
look i found a chain ring :D
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-TA-TA-263-3-arm-chainring-3920.htm

I'm off to Ravensbourne (its an art uni just round the corner from bromley) I got onto their graphic design course, which i'm very happy about.

ps.

Tommy those hubs look fantastic. thanks for the link, and it yer i'm trying to not skimp too much, but also I dont want to put too much money into something i've never tried before, the way i'm looking at it is: build as cheap as possible initially, see what fixed riding is actually like, and then providing all goes well either upgrade or build another better one. That make sence?
On the update front I do now have a front wheel now. I popped into halfords, (just happened to be passing) and discovered that an old friend worked there now. I told him about my fixie thoughts n how the next thing on the list was wheels, he disappears for a minute and come back holding a wheel, it came in a box of wheels, but was completely un-branded n wasnt on the stock chart, so now for £8 i now have a front wheel, its nice and light, and spins true, so i'm pretty happy with it.

sorry to disapoint there are only a couple of bikes there atm, and none of any notablility. not really worth a drive. I'm guna start popping down there every few weeks so i'll let you know if anything cool pops up. Yer they kinda laughed when i picked up this broken/semi stripped bike and asked them how much.