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A question re: Everyone's favourite metal-work double entendre (or is it? That might be a more interesting thread)...

Recently bought a 2nd hand bike. The 27.2 seatpost currently in it is cut off to have about 2" inserted, and will go no further in. Nor will the longer 27.2 seatpost I want to put in there.

It's not an old frame, (it's this one http://www.lfgss.com/thread108803.html ), so I suspect it is 27.2 rather than 27. Measurements with my crappy plastic calipers have helped zilch.

Couple of LBSs are conflicted about this question, however. Does anyone have a hunch? Shell out for a 27 and risk it slipping, or R E A M ?

Thankssss.

Nothing too fancy or too trashy. Black preferred. Anyone?

PMed

Hi All...

25.4mm diameter post needed, at least 225mm long, ideally more like 300mm. Prefer -- gaaaaah, I don't know what they're called -- the older style, non-micro adjust type, ie. it just gets a bit thinner in diameter toward the top and the saddle pops vertically on. Since this is for a friend's cheap build, that way we can keep the saddle.

But if anyone has an old BMX post w/ cheap saddle, I'm open. Low price is a motivating factor. Found a Ti one on here for 95 quid; poetry to put that on a 30 pound kid's Raleigh...

Thank you.

3/32" or 1/8"?
I've got a Miche one, I think (on the funny mounting thingy... google if not familiar). Collect Dalston for beers...

Dibs Stem.... PMing

Replied... late

Leyland is doing Super Cover @ 17quid for ten litres if no-one can help out...

Happy Customer Bump!

Sprocket still available, and PRICE DROP it's ten now...

Chainwhip heading Chris' way...

Pretty Nice Condor Stainless sprocket 16T, 1/8th, unsurprisingly, the colour of stainless steel (20 quid new)
+
Pretty Bog Standard Condor chainwhip (tenner in Gray's Inn)

I'm abandoning this 1/8th vibe.

These have never been used. twelve for the sprock, five for the whip. Fifteen for both. Collection in Central London or Dalston region, flexible. Postage will probably be about 3 quid if outside the doomed megalopolis (less if just the sprocket - please don't just buy the sprocket, how'm I gonner shift this chainwhip?).

Safe.

From tonight's purple rag:

"Police are appealing for the owner of a distinctive £2,000 bike to come forward after they recovered it during a raid on a house in Hackney... black, single-speed and has red trim wheels... PC Jonathan Suanders 020 7601 2606"

Anyone on here?

Provenrad, is that a new Arthur Caygill, as in new built, or just new to you?

Smooth fillet brazing on my new frame too:

Yes, you will. And I want a new Cinelli stem, for my Cinelli bars. If yours is fairly short and you want to offload it give me a shout.

Had a bunch of smashes, but one near miss that was pretty notable the other day:

Going slowly through traffic I decide to weave from the outside to the inside of the lane via the front of a car and the back of an AA van. Only at the last second did I notice upon turning into the gap that they were connected by a big metal rod.

Glad I was going slowly...

Attention Chemists: I have a stuck seatpost, and am thinking about this method. However, I'm a bit scared of the possible effects of the caustic soda on Columbus SLX New tubing. It's steel but it's very thin. Would steel hardly dissolve at all or do I have to take care to minimise steel-caustic solution contact?

CAN'T STOP SELF... ANTI-SYSTEM RANT COMING ON...

This site is not racist, it's just missing the point by about a mile. It's not about what white people like, it's about what middle-class people with disposable income like. Go to Dagenham. Full of white people; what a surprise, no expensive sandwich shops or fixed wheel bikes. Likewise, witness the middle-class black people who like fixed gear, graphic design etc. Wow! It looks like colour isn't the dividing line after all!

It's a CLASS ISSUE, and some social injustices act to align rades with certain classes (hence association of black people with poorer classes).

http://www.marxists.org/

Oh yeah and Treptower Park at sunrise is amazing after clubs!!!

It's probably inevitable that you will end up in Prater Bier garden on Kastanianallee, and this is not such a bad thing esp. if you are vegetarian. Whilst in the area of Prenzlauerberg you should also find Dr Pongs for bad ass all night around-the-world table tennis drinking action. You will probably end up in White trash... it's not so bad, I know a few nice americans in berlin.

Kastanianallee is a good street for breakfast, try W imbiss (upsidedown McDonalds M).

P'lauerberg is generally fun, although any genuine berlin people (berliner is a kind of sweet pastry, JFK) will tell you its just full of families now. Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg are a bit more "edgy", but fairly impenetrable without local knowledge. Make friends. Berliners are lazy, so get in that mind set.

Have a good time man, I fuckin' love that city... don't know how people run track bikes on those cobbles, damn

When they all lined up at the end to face off, I really wanted them to throw down their bikes and start dancing.

:(

No my friend, not my work, but too true. Maybe needs an update with a little enclave of rich people east... "Scared Rich People"

That's what I meant...

If this site is anything to go by then all Finnish bikes are totally buff. I like the rusty one with wooden grips...

beeeeef!