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You'd be surprised.

It's wise advice rad but unfortunately I have nothing small enough to get into the steerer and hold the nut. Tried this last night.

This is the exact problem I've had with my new bike. I was hoping I didn't need to drill. Especially since I have no facilities for this at all. Anyone done this before and don't mind helping me out?

Nice to be up there again last night. Sorry had to leave to early but things had to be done. Survived the hill down, luckily.
P!MP just came by my work with brakes as well, none of which would fit. Maybe I'm supposed to be brakeless? I hope not.
Thanks again P!MP.

Posh is the name of the game up in Highgate though. He'll feel right at home.

Winston, sort of how tattoo artists are? It's not impossible.

If you don't mind bringing those nuts I'll gladly have a look at them. If that doesn't work we'll go from there :)
Thanks

Forgot to mention?
It was 23:23 and you were disassembling your headset to get your stem out.
I think you forgot to get your google out. blows raspberry

This is true, I got Sheldon Brown on the line instead and from what I can remember of what he told me last night is that he did not mention this either. Which might indicate that it should be obivous, only it wasn't. To me at least.

I tried dis-assembling a front caliper to put in a longer bolt but after reassembling it never seemed to work properly :-( Okay will bring along whatever I have got here.

Thank you. Much appreciated.
This means I'll at least come up to drinks for a little bit. Goodie.

P!MP that would be nice. Though would you mind brining whole calipers? I've tried to look at my caliper and see how I could change the nut but I think I'd have to disasemble the whole thing and I'm not sure I'd be able to get it back together in working condition.
Fixing Bolt is the name I've heard of.

Around 20-21 Dec. So if I don't come tonight there'll be 2 tuesdays left before I go.

undo allen bolt and tap it down a bit to release the wedge / expander
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_w.html#wedgebolt
Will see you peeps tomorrow hopefully - is the pizza a regular thing?

This did it. What you forgot to mention though is to not undo the allen bolt all the way, just a couple of turns on it. Worked great. No need for the wrenchy thing.

Now I only need a new front caliper with a long nut on it. Or maybe a standard nut if the Langsters caliper are shorter and different which wouldn't surprise me one bit.
It's slow riding brakeless.
Also, I MIGHT come up tonight for a glass of qater. Which means a quickie. Have to continue to clean the flat so it's presentable to the agency and whatnot.

And if Lebowski doesn't I will.

If we know that the police never checks the footage I'm sure that the bad guys do too.

Sounds reasonable, here's something that might not sound so reasonable. What's the screwthingie on it like? How long is it?

Actually I sorted the pedal out before I left. This very strong latino man came in and helped me. Seriously. So rode brakeless home. Yikes.
Still might need the caliper though. Gonna try some stuff out later.
Also, might be a silly question. How do I get a quill stem loose? Do I just need a big wrench to undo that big wrench needing thing? Or is there some other secret? Just undoing the allen key top isnt enough. obivously.

Anyone at Norths have either pedals with straps and that or a front brake caliper to spare for the cheap? Can't get one of my pedals of the Langster and the brake calipers screw thingie is to short for the holes in the new forks. I'm at the moment without a bike since they're at work and I've got no time to fix them up today before i go home. Damn it.

Would very much appreciate it if someone had this and wanted to get rid of any of these at as low a price as possible. I'm around Kings X during the day and Tufnell Park during the night.

It is supposedly a vintage track Ron Cooper though I'm not entirely sure that this is correct. It does have a very light tubing and the lugs are nice and all that. It doesn't have any C's or anything on it.
According to the seller they were bought in by an older guy for his cycling club many years ago, he's the one saying it is a Ron Cooper. I know the seller did sell other Coopers at the same time with the Branding an all that.
Either way I'm looking forward to building it.

No, not from New York. Got it form Ebay the night before I left. I'll be looking into getting a pair of wheels for the cheap and either putting them on the new one or the langster and lending it to my girlfriend since she doesn't have a bike at the moment.

Sort of need to put a couple of things on it from the ol' langster. Hopefully everything will work out ok with that. If it does, then yes I do.

I MIGHT be up there for a glass of water. We'll see. Sort of told the GF that I wouldn't since I'd be going on the ride on thursday, but I might get a waiver and get up on a new-ish steed......

I wont be in on that trip either seeing as I wont be in London at that time. I am now though. Nice to be back. Colder than I remembered it though.

hah, I can imagine you'd be scared for the new frame. I was scared for you and I was just reading it.

Also, I want a litle cushion to sit on as well. I'm gonna make one out of an old bandaid from when I was a paramedic in the war.

Tres nice Duncan. It's gonna be a bitch to keep it clean though.