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I'm gonna try that Yautcha-whatever place in Broadwick Street tomorrow, if I'm still in town at lunchtime.

I'm pretty sure they don't do crispy bacon at the Brick Lane Beigel Bake...

RPM ah it's that place in selkirk road

Yeah, couldn't remember the name of the road, but it's the one that runs off the main road opposite Primark.

Glad clefty agrees about Taro. Had the mixed sushi AND the chicken teryaki don in there today, inspired me to start this thread... you have to go there when Taro himself is behind the little pay-booth, and marvel at how much he looks like the caricature of him on the board that swings outside the restaurant...

So it feels like it's about forty degrees below zero, and you've worked up a righteous hunger pedalling like an animal around town, and you're a bit fat like me and have been looking forward to lunch since breakfast. You need somewhere you can eat fast and aren't made to feel bad for dressing like a tramp...

Where do you go? Struck me that there are a few places I'd ride out of my way to eat at, and I'd like to hear yours so I can broaden my gluttonous horizons... Mine are:

Pellicci's, Bethnal Green Rd for a fry-up or a roast dinner
Taro, Brewer St. for a £9 mixed sushi or the awesome £7 chicken teryaki don
Harry Morgan's, Market Place W1, for chicken soup with dumplings or a salt beef sandwich
Harrington's Noted Eel, Pie and Mash shop, Tooting Broadway (for fine French dining, obviously)

Sheikhenger.

He was going on holiday at the start of November - if he's not back already he must be back soon

When I'm not thinking about bicycles, I write about cars for magazines and newspapers around the world (mainly CAR in the UK). Does that get me kicked off this forum? I also produce a bit of telly, and get hired to give people ideas on how to make their magazines better. And I'm a partner in a recording studio and a PR company. But like I said, that's only when I'm not thinking about bicycles, so it's quite a lot to fit into half an hour a week.

Spotted - junction of Strand and Aldwych, Thurs night about quarter to eight, bloke wearing a beige cap, riding a fix with cut-down risers (and therefore MUST be on here, right?) leaning down and having an 'animated conversation' with a bloke in a BMW Z4 at the lights. I think I overheard the word 'tosser'...

Also, about quarter to midnight Thurs, bloke pedalling like a bastard up Buckhold Rd away from the Wandsworth one way system towards Merton Rd/Southfields - one of the SW London masseeef on here? Black and white fix, mudguards - maybe a Flyer?

If you're gonna change the BB, maybe consider going much narrower, so you can run the chainring on the outside of the spider, which will look way better and give you more efficient, Graham-Obree-styleee pedal spacing! Just watch that the cranks still clear the chainstays. I bought a new (shorter) Campy BB from Condor recently and they agreed to take it back or swap it if it tuned out it wasn't compatible with the rest of my set-up after I'd trial-fitted it at home, so ask your LBS if they'll do the same. Or if you don't have BB tools, ask them to do the trial-fit, like someone else suggested. They would probably fit the BB alone for free anyway - doesn't take much longer to slap on the chainset, wheel and chain to check the line...

Like Hippy's link suggests, Campag never made frames, but do make drop-outs (and I think maybe fork crowns in the past...) Anyway - you definitely HAVEN'T bought a Campag frame, but if whoever did make it used Campy dropouts then it must be pretty decent quality... With workhorse frames like this that have been passed around between club racers and repainted it's almost impossible to guess who the maker is, or the what tubeset was used. And at this price it doesn't really matter - if it arrives and it's light and true and you've bought the right size in the first place, then you have a bargain! Sounds like it genuinely has been used for racing/training, so is unlikely to be mild steel...

...oh and Wayne f_14 is here too, in Putney...

South-west London has been known for its tolerance and for the welcome it gives to refugees since the arrival of the French Huguenots here in the eighteenth century. In the past couple of years we have welcomed all the tiny derailleurs cruelly thrown out of their homes in Clerkenwell, Hoxton and Shoreditch during the Great Hipster Revolution. I, for instance, have given a home to a total of ten derailleurs, and they live in harmony in my garage with my two fixed-gear bikes, who are ashamed at the intolerance shown by their cousins in the East.

So it's not that there are no fixed-gear bikes here - you'll just see more geared bikes. But although things are good here, most of them are dreaming of one day returning to the old country, and once more being pissed on by a tramp while left parked outside the Brick Lane Beigel Bake at 3am while their owner is inside being given botulism, or whatever it is you do in E1...

(I'm in Southfields too, btw willski, near the station...)

Motor Ed?

Dee Purple?

Aero Smith?

Aaron Maiden?

(Or Ironmaid Ian?)

Thin Lizzy?

No? Okay...

fatboyralph fatbloke: what a coincidink...did you get your gillott resprayed by vaz?!? saw an a.s. gillott there...liked and got vaz to do the same to my frame

No, thought about a respray/refurb, but like the 'patina' that has built up over 42 years, and thought I'd cry if I had it very carefully and expensively restored, then scratched it.

So it was a green/white Gillott you saw at Vaz's? There are some pix of mine on here - do a forum search for 'Gillott' and it'll come up. You'll see it locked up in Southfields outside the French deli, or the Italian deli, or the Olive Garden, or the fish and chip shop, or the pub....

Very nice. Are they the standard bars and bar tape? If not, what are they? And where'd'ya get that top tube protector? Or did you make it?

Forgive idiot question.

fatboyralph [quote]Are you the guy on the Pearson Touche who rides down Revelstoke Road?

lots of things cooler than shht. nope, im not touche man. i ride a bike with no name. green with off white panels

althought tonite, im on a very slow full sus mtb. fkn sticky front disc brakes slowing me down[/quote]

Me neither. I'm also on a green fix with off-white panels, bizarrely, but it's a Gillott. Also a green Langster or a Scott geared road bike or a Giant MTB.

Hello, Agata. Why don't more fixed-gear riders in London look like her?

Bargain. If you find that you don't have space for it/don't ride it enough, and want to double your money, let me know!

fatboyralph rarely see fixed gear riders down my neck of the woods, so that's got to be worth a mention. are we SWners not trendy?!?!

I'm at the top of Wimbledon Park Road and am as cool as shit.

SWLFGSS, anyone?

Build All Nippon Airways are doing London Heathrow to Tokyo Narita returns for £479.60 direct.

I've just booked another flight for the 4 Dec.

All your Nagasawa's are belong to us.

You the man, Build! Wicked directions earlier in this thread, thanks so much for posting - made the trip!

MDee Fatbloke. Were the pictures of the yellow Bridgestone and red Samson also taken at Punch Cycle? Looks amazing

MDee. All taken at Punch, except the one pic from Carnival of the rack of bikes with the white tri-spoke at the back. Only reason I took so many is that a mate was planning to come to Tokyo after me and bring one back. His plans changed, so I thought I'd inflict them on you instead.

You're right, great place. Just like the rest of that insane city...

wayne_f14 allez, allez

Ha ha - just noticed that it's an Astana shirt he's waving... I'm a bit slow.

He's clearly a cyclist too, judging by the tan-lines on his legs. Now I want a pair of those Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane shades to go with my fluoro mankini...

The peloton leaders have clearly just noticed him - do you think this pic was followed by a massive stack?

According to the Rapha site, "our sizing is based on UK males and hence will be slightly larger than Italian or Swiss brands..."

Cheeky c*nts! And they want over a ton for a pair of shorts! No wonder they don't make full-length trousers - no fucker could afford them!

Rapha, Endura, will check 'em out tomorrow, ta. Hope they make 'em in extra-pie.

RPM
how about wearing what you feel comfortable in, and not giving a fuck what other people think?

I generally don't give a fuck what other people think, unless they're clients and are writing me large cheques, in which case I'll wear a Borat-style over-the-shoulder thong and dance for them, if it makes them happy.

I run my own businesses and use my fix to get around London to meetings, but can't really arrive wearing baggy MTB shorts with crotch inserts that stick out a bit and make non-cycling clients think I'm wearing incontinence pads. I'm bored of getting changed in the bogs beforehand, I hate riding in jeans (denim too heavy) and don't like those Rohan-type, combat-style 'activity pants'.

So can anyone recommend some lightweight, semi-smart, bike-friendly trousers that won't make me look like one of those wurzels off Tony Robinson's Time Team?