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Interested in the silver raleigh ladies frame with rack/mudguard islets, as well as rack + mudgard, depending on sizes.

Dibs?

PM'd.

I've got a quite nice Sigma 17-35mm F2.8-4.0 in a Nikon mount if you're interested.

Dibs on pedals. You have PM.

I've got a 42cm set of alloy bars, black and off a stock Langster. 31.8mm clamp. Ergonomic curve, though - like the ones on this:

You can have them for free if you want, pickup from E9.

2nd dibs if selling.

£95 per wheel or per wheelset?

Front and back available?

Where by dubs I mean dibs.

Dubs for a friend. PM'd.

Got this from Parcelforce today and it's a beaut! Thanks a lot Mark; 'twas a pleasure doing business with you. It was especially nice of you to throw in all the miscellany like brakes and cables and stuff.

Don't have a black one but would be interested in a purchase if the price is right ... is this for sale as well or swop only?

I'll buy it from you for £372, on the condition that you read Fowler's and prove that you understand it before going through with the tranasction.

Want!

But not sure about size. Usually ride a 55cm frame with 74º angles, but 58cm may be doable with slacker angles. What's the standover height? I've got a 32" inside leg ... doable?

Will give you £25 for them. Can pickup tomorrow. PM'd.

What's not to like?

Reminds me of this:

Cheers for the wrestlers. Good to see you today. If you could PM me the details of your framer, as well as your bank details for the cash, that would be awesome.

Are the bars/stems still available?

If so, can collect for a friend this BH weekend.

PM'd.

Any wrestlers left?

Realistically, my bike (and I) only really make it out on to the trail every other month. I can't justify having a fourth bike (in addition to fixed commuter, geared racer and the 29er). I guess a wheelset for pub use (with appropriate tyres - just placed an order for Schwalbe Big Apple 2.35" tyres). I'm going to give the Velosolo-converted Shimano hub a go and still keep the mediocre stock machine-built wheel that came with the bike. I'll have a go at flip-flop - as far as I can see the main problem is going to be replacing the cog with a disc rotor and changing the tyres before going on the trail, which is probably about 20-30 mins work. If I get bored of 40-60 mins (convert to trail and back to road) work every time I want to flip between fixed and SS, then I'll settle for having separate wheelsets for on- and off- road use.

Will post pics and progress as and when ...

Hello all.

I have a GT 29er SS that I sees a moderate amount of off-road use, but I'd like to use as a fixed beater/pub-bike as well. It has disc brakes front + back and an eccentric BB with vertical dropouts.

The front wheel needs replacing (taco'd the rim when I was last oout on the trail), so I thought I would plump for a whole new wheelset - and thought that a Velosolo-converted Shimano M756 would probably be the ticket - run it fixed on the road, then remove the cog and replace with a disc rotor ( and possibly 1-2 spacers in order to line-up the rotor properly) and stick a cog on the freewheel in order to run offroad SS?

Has anyone ever done or seen anything like this? As far as I can see, the main problem will be in dishing/chainline/disc-rotor-alignment, but I guess that there's scope to space out either disc-rotor or fixed cog, if necessary. Is this a ridonkulous idea, or feasible?

I have a single purple front Velocity Deep V laced to a pewter Goldtec hub. Machined, about 8 months old, seen about 1000 miles but in VGC + smooth + true.

Yours for 110 GN.

I bought Egg Beaters because I thought they looked cool (there's no point in lying to myself) but I found they really didn't give enough support under my feet and I found it ridiculously difficult to clip my feet in while they were going around. There's no pedal as such to put the flat of your foot on first so you have to have an incredibly good aim.

Massive hipster fail.

+1

In 12 months with a pair of (now discontinued) Egg Beater Quattro and Egg Beater SL pedals, I've had to send things back to manufacturer 3 times. They are also very, very floaty - which I found slowed me down because the freedom of motion made it difficult to develop a consistent pedal motion. Swapped to Time ATAC Alium pedals and haven't looked back since.

The flip flop hub will have to be freewheel / fixed...unless you want to do some serious convincing to get me to ride fixed/fixed :)

The "fixed" and "free" sides of the hub differ in that there is room for a lockring (which is smaller and reverse threaded) on the fixed side.

As a general rule, you can thread a freewheel on to the "fixed" side of any hub - i.e. you can run a fixed/fixed hub as fixed/free or even free/free. The reverse is not true as you cannot fit a lockring on the "free" side of a hub, so if you were to screw on a cog (which is possible), there would be nothing to prevent it from unthreading when you applied backward pressure to the drivechain.

I guess what I'm saying is, a fixed/fixed wheelset would suit your purposes just as well as a fixed/free. I don't have one to offer you, though.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/USB_types_2.jpg

from left to right: micro USB, mini USB, B-type, female A-type, A-type

Utterly fucking typical! "UNIVERSAL" serial bus - if you happen to have the right one of the five connectors/terminals. Why not just have two sizes - big and small? Or even just one size ?

postscript - just saying this as a complaint to the USB gods for the number of times borrowed/bought the wrong cable.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/22/bamboo-bike

Curses! I usually pride myself as being Avant-Guardian - i.e. discovering The Next Big Thing® a week before there's a weekend feature on it.

No-longer-ahead-of-the-curve FAIL.

Saw a fixed bamboo bike locked up in between the National Hospital for Nervous Disease and Great Ormond Street a couple of weeks ago - belong to anyone here?

I lived in hong kong as a teenager, and they'd make all their scaffolding out of bamboo - even for 20+ storey tower blocks. There's a much recounted (urban myth?) story of side-by-side skyscrapers, one with metal scaffolding and another with bamboo scaffolding. Apparently a typhoon hit, and only the bamboo scaffolding survived owing to its' flex.

Anyway, back on topic - has anyone tried a bamboo bike?