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it almost looks like the dishing is to accommodate a 1 sided hub and not a flipflop hub.

is everyone/most people from this board meeting at a certain place/time? and will there be polo afterwards?

i'll probably be at the freewheel thing so could you hold on to some until then?

leatherface and other pop-punk (emphasis on the punk) with similar sounds (broadways, grabass charlestons, armalite, fifth hour hero, polar bear club, fifteen)

i'm at st. anne's college
alexis is in east oxford (i think) and works at the ocw.

though i get the impression that you can be anywhere in "oxford" any be no more than a 5 minute ride from the center of the city.

the viking works well, since i am a viking:

pictures of the bike coming very soon.

alexis, i take it you havent seen many/any other fixed riders around oxford to slip a card to?

i'd be up for going down to london for this freewheel business...though if the govt is giving us blocks and blocks of untraffiked streets, who wants to turn this into a londonfgss crit?

is this like a (i don't want to say 'legal') but 'sanctioned' critical mass where the london govt closes off certain streets to allow people to ride their bikes on?

anyone from the oxford area going down for this?

also, is the the same as rollapolluza?

Oswald My two pence ! have you seen how Aerospoke insert the hub into the wheel (on their site) .. unless I'm mistaken that isn't going to last more then a couple of skid stops before it's loose ..

this is another issue with them - they aren't design for backpedalling, and when you strip the hub, the companies are under no obligation to replace it or help you.

continuing with bands i could see myself doing heroine or opium to and just peacing out for days while listening to:
A Silver Mt. Zion

attempt at half a disc wheel?

past 2 days: lots of Explosions In The Sky

anyone around oxford ride fixed (or singlespeed, or just happen to be a member of this forum)?
i'm looking to get together with some people and hang out, ride around, play polo, etc with over the next 3-4months i'm here (though after i'm gone maybe people will still use this thread when looking for things to do/people to meet up with in oxford).
alexis (from ocw) printed up some little spoke cards/fliers that he and i are planning on slipping in any wheels of fg/ss bikes we see around oxford, though, atleast from my end, there's been no such luck so far as i haven't seen anyone on a fg/ss. i'm assuming more people will be here when term starts, and out of those people some will ride fixed, so if you'll eventually be making your way to oxford let us (the interwebz) know.

so yeah, anyone in/around oxford want to get together and ride/hang out tonight, this weekend, whenever?
also, how much does it cost to get into london from out here? is this something people from the surrounding-london-area do on a regular basis, because obviously there's a lot more going on in london then here. the university gave me this student railway card thing, so i'm assuming that might make travel into london cheaper (?)

look kinda lax for a track bike...

though from the looks of it, i don't see the normal tooth-paste welds you tend to have with aluminum frames

US ebay usually has a lot of these foolish carbon fiber wheels in 650cc for cheap.

mashton [quote]kilgore_trout mashton, were you in nyc during broadway bombing/ecmc?

I sure was - best week of the year so far :-)

I take it you were too?[/quote]

yeah, post broadway bombing i think you, jack crank, thejake, katy peaches, and myself were sitting on the stoop outside the bar in brooklyn

oh wow, those londonfgss ones are pretty nice looking. if you've got some extras lying around i'll take them off your hands.

aerospokes are heavy as fuck
spinergy's have the tendency to spontaneously combust (read: shatter out of nowhere)
hed trispokes are light and stiff, but extremely expesnive.

personally i couldn't ever imagine riding one of those on the street.

mashton, were you in nyc during broadway bombing/ecmc?

lpg All cogs are created equal, but some cogs are more equal than others.

two wheels good four wheels bad

i have about 7 different EAI cogs and i love them. everyone i know who uses EAI swears by them.

i might be interested...

campy shimals should be relatively sturdy. i know people who play bike polo on them and they've held up fine.

i also know people who messenger on mavic ellipses on boston streets year round and haven't had a problem.

CONFLICT (and lots of it)

http://www.last.fm/user/blueingreen/

by "aero" do you mean "bladed" spokes?
how is the driveside rear laced? and is the dishing correct? this can be a pretty big factor in the amount of weight the wheel can take. bladed spokes are meant to be stronger and are used in a lot of high-end low spoke count wheels, so they really shouldn't be breaking.

i think the mavic ksyrium anniversarie road racing wheels are actually radially laced on the driveside (something i thought you were NEVER supposed to do) but they use bladed spokes and hold up to a fuckload of punishment.