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no offence to the non-london readers, but I've just come back to the forum after about a week to find that almost everyone here is suddenly not from london, and it's weirding me out...

so where are you?

you only need a cumputar if you have gears, right? Cos fixed gear = fixed GI (which, obviously you already know). (And the time bit is easy, note down when you leave and when you arrive). So all you have to do is work out how many pedal revolutions you have done, using this:

it's good spec but what do you do with a fixed mountain bike?

slack chain

£10 per month for insurance sounds crazy to me - save your money. If your phone gets stolen / lost then buy a PAYG for £10 to last the remainder of the contract...

other than that, I'm with PJ... :p

My short point is: Report it. Even if you don't intend on following up or going to any more effort. It adds one more tick in a box of driver vs. cyclist incidents.

If you do want to follow up or you have reported it and want help I can offer my best. But lots of my best is here already:
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread4213.html#post156144

+1

Hit and run seem almost inevitable in London these days. I'm even considering joining the CTC for their (excellent, I'm told) legal team which is free of charge for members, and they'll chase cnuts like this one.

bad luck and heal quickly Sam. Just a thought: many people do the same journey every day. It's possible that you might see this car again if you hang out at the spot around the same time. These hit and run bastards have to understand that their actions have consequences.

I've just taken a closer look at the the pic - I've never seen lugless 753, has anyone else? Don?

an easy way to tell if it's 753 (not guaranteed, but will point you in the right direction) is to tap the tubing with the back of your fingernail. you'll hear it ping like aluminium, certainly it'll resonate for half a second more than cheap steel tubing.

..but true. +1 on the 0.3mm thickness.

in fact often the paint is thicker than the tubing ... problem with 753 is that the frames don't last as a result - the first sign of corrosion farks up the whole frame. I dont remember the actual weight but could pick up my whole road bike (753/dura-ace groupset) with my little finger.

I don't get it - why would you want a *second *back brake?

correct - silver brazing. I owned a 753 road frame in the 80's and IMO there's no way that it's possible to make 753 curved, it's way too thin. You could look at it funny and dent it. BTW, I believe that 753 is brazed in the dark (possibly not in the pitch black :-)) to get the temperature exactly right, or the tubing gets damaged by the heat. because it's so thin. it's thin.

first post + a name like iamphil = seems to be asserting himself just a bit too hard.

i'm not ;-)

old street / whorexton square. peds crossing the road last night, didn't see me as looking the wrong way. I shouted out, they still didn't see me. As I passed them, i looked back, shouted again, almost stacked in to *another *ped crossing the road looking the wrong way.

how do we know he's genuinely phil?

here's what the HK sellers do: mark the item as "REPAIRED ITEM", value - £15. works every time, on the premise that the item is originally from the UK and therefore no excise duty is incurred in returning an item to the UK, as it's already had VAT applied. :-)

The best indian restaurant in London is in Tooting - Masaladar

you can bring colnago biscuits shaped like victoria pendleton if you like, it won't get you in :-)

and what the hell *is *circ... actually don't answer that...

I've just read your footnote, you can stay the hell away, no matter what type of biscuits you bring

tynan, you're offering to turn up to everyone's house with tea and biscuits?

the onion movie

http://www.filmdrunk.com/post.phtml?pk=1257[
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yay!

'tis the normal scheme but I can use any retailer that will accept the voucher.

@asm: thanks for the tip, I'd forgotten about cyclefit... damn, those Colnago frames are pretty

Sorry in advance for the CTC-like post.....

I've got 28 days to spec and get a cycle to work voucher for a new bike. At the moment I have a hack bike, a langster, which is satisfactory for my daily commute. Considering the following options:

1. do nothing & keep the langster
   
2. Sell the langster and get something else
   
3. get a new bike and keep it for my sunday best
   
4. get a new bike and convert the langster to maybe a polo bike*
   
   

• I should add that though the idea of polo appeals, I've never summoned up the balls to turn up on sunday and try falling off repeatedly whilst everyone else falls about laughing ;-) (so presumably the conversion involves a 33 tooth rear cog, a pair of stabilisers and a kevlar bodysuit?)
  
  

what would you do and what would you buy? My initial reaction is go over to cavendish and spec up a BJ? To give this some context, I have owned some nice bikes and can tell the difference between a langster & a decent bike....