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I have one and it's pretty good

Whereabouts in the US will you be visiting?

seems to be that the none of the Interclub's were made from the 531 tubing, and that to get the tubing i have to go for a 70's/80's Tour de France model

No offence meant, but neither of those are track frames. If you want to build a fixed-gear conversion, carry on, but the Interclub and TdeF are road frames.

of course, there are also clincher tubulars, i think only made by Tufo:

Basicaly tubulars with rubber hooks on them that fit in clincher rims.
looks to me like a very cool system but i wonder if they're any good and any better than good clinchers...

I've ridden those. They're really not that great. All the weight of a clincher, with all of the PITAness of a tubular.

Ride quality was a little better than most clinchers I've used but, all in all, not something I'd buy again.

I used to have one of those, albeit in blue. Lovely bike, great geometry, but heavy as anything. At times (usually halfway up a nasty hill) I became convinced that it was made of solid metal bars, as opposed to hollow tubes.

The higher-end models were made with better tubing (501, I think) but I had the basic model - named 'School' - from 1974. I ended up selling it recently for around $400. It's French threaded (obviously), which can be a pain, but I just bought a Phil Wood bottom bracket and a set of their French cups and I was fine. Also, the seat-tube is a funny size (25.0), but I managed to find a Campy Aero one to fit.

Still, all in all, a really beautiful bike to look at and very responsive.

Sorry for all the (brackets).

Cock-socket.

Bint (I love the word bint, and it's been around for ages).

Plum.

Numpty.

Prick (but only when spoken by Peter Falk in the movie 'Made').

Vagasshole.

Re: Tange Track Frame.

You do know they made something very similar in carbon, right?

...another option if you like the look of the orange/white one originally posted is Bridgestone's PFM9 (also carbon):

My cycling goal is to be physically capable of riding a bike until the day I die. Pretty simple, really.

***.

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Unexspokted.

@turpe: fuck! what happened there!?

I'm not entirely sure, but it belongs to a kid here in SF who's a bit too... erm... 'solid' to be riding his track bike like it's a trials bike. My guess is one too many poorly executed wheelies or somesuch.

Arrospokalypse!

Death of an Arrospok.

Ma3k i think Turpe was talking about when a driver intentionally runs into a cyclist, and then fleas the scene. i think this should be treated as attempted murder/ murder. and more so if the driver is drunk.

Exactly my point, although I disagree that the sentence should be any more lenient if a driver is sober.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7394355.stm
A man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was injured trying to stop a stolen vehicle in East Yorkshire.

• Police spotted a stolen minibus being driven in a "dangerous and reckless" manner in Beverley. The officer suffered nose and face injuries as the driver twice refused to stop before a stinger device was used. *
  
• Chief Superintendent Paul Davison, of Humberside Police, said: "Driving of this type in such a large vehicle can be more lethal than carrying a weapon."*
  
  

So why, when a cyclist is the victim of a hit-and-run, does the driver get charged with 'careless driving' or somesuch? Why when a driver hits a policeman does it get bumped up to attempted murder?

Perhaps Vinz (or anyone else) can directly quote Ch. Supt. Davison when they discuss any future action against drivers that run cyclists over.

Baby wipes.

Unscented ones.

My friend Jeff was hit by a car and the driver coughed up for a repair and respray of his Gazelle frame. Here's the end result:

ScieANTologist?

Tyrants.

...because we're a nation of scaredy-cats.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7380691.stm

Parents' fears about road safety are turning children into a lost generation of cyclists, says a government-backed agency that promotes cycling.

• Four out of five children are banned from cycling to school by their parents, a poll of 1,079 parents for Cycling England suggests. *

• This compares to the 35% of parents who were allowed to bike to school when they were children themselves. *
  *
  The biggest reason why parents did not let their child cycle on the road was concern about safety - but only 3% knew someone who had been in an accident.

*These are most likely the same parents that disinfect every surface ten times a day, drive their kids to school, and general insulate them from life - then wonder why they're so f$%ked up when they find out that the real world isn't a very nice place.

Whatever happened to 'a bit of dirt don't hurt'?

^^ true. All about bare black tyres and thin rimz.

No no no.

'tis the season of the low-profile rims and gumwall tyres.

Don't you people read Vogue?

San Francisco.

Sorry, angry mob. I moved here from London less than a year ago and I (strangely) miss the place.

This one's languishing in my friend Bennett's garage waiting for the right parts to be corralled.

That Tommassini passed through the hands of my friend James (the same guy I bought my Affinity from). He's had some sick bikes:

Eimei:
http://velospace.org/files/eimeifatlace2_0.jpg

Medici:
http://velospace.org/files/medicipost.jpg

Calfee (he still has this):
http://velospace.org/files/calfeepost.jpg

Masi (he also still has this):
http://velospace.org/files/03b.jpg

'Forced Fun' is no fun at all.

Benson the cat has attitude

He's actually a big (weighs over a stone and none of it's fat) softy. If you look closely, you'll see that he has his 'Tell me your troubles. I can't help, but I'll listen' face on.