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Salad at Christmas?! OJ is fucked. up.

Have a good one all, peace and love.

The NOS Peugeot's on the back burner (if you remember that one) - it'll be built up geared with Shimano 600 Arabesque bits when I get my shit together - so this is the runabout at the moment. Another Pug, because everyone knows Peugeot conversions are teh bestest.

Pretty much all the new bits are as cheap as possible... Stronglight Mygal chainset & BB, a set of those £30 On-One hubs on Open Sports and an On-One sprocket and lockring. Bike was £50 off the 'Bay.

Before:

After:

(Disclaimer: saddle angle and chain tension were sorted after I took the pics.)

Crazy layback action

Ooh, I like the perforated leather Regal. (Unsurprisingly.)

I'm getting a headache just looking at them on the internets. They must be terrifying in real life.

Hilary, as I mentioned, I'm after the Arabesque braze-on levers and various other bits... Let me know.

56cm Favorit track bike - Fixed Gear - £750 £200

Specs:
Wheels: Rigida deep section purple rims £60
Hubs: Condor high-flange track hubs £60
Tyres: Vittoria Zaffiro Pro £40
Cog: 16T Dura Ace £15
Chainset: Sugino Messenger 44T with colour coded bolts. £90
Pedals: Large BMX pedals with Power Straps (straps not in the picture) £30
Saddle: Concor Light £60
Handlebars: Gold Soma 1" rise £40
Stem: Silver quill £15
Chain: Gold £5
Grips: White £5

Plus £50 wheel build
Plus hipster tax £50

Still only makes £520, generously price.

What am I missing? Where does £750 come from

You forgot the £230 titanium/crabon/gold Royce BB that it obviously must have.

Might be a bit late for you guys, but if you did go to the Auld Shillelagh it's not far from there to the Bank of Friendship on Blackstock Road. Not the most remarkable pub but they definitely do a good pint of Guinness there. I'd come but I'm moving flat on Saturday...

You had me at "road egg"

1.tynan
2.MAX
3.tynan
4.slamm
5.edscoble
6.tynan
7.goodhead (as long as we can call in at Selfridges)
8.tynan
8.5 lpg
9.k
10.a
11.t
12.t
13.t

1. tynan
   
2. tynan
   
3. sorethroat
   
4. tynan
   
5. jerkface (yes, that's me)
   
6. lndngrrl
   
7. hippy + sled dogs + sas survival expert + camera crew
   
8. cliveo and family
   
9. dov
   
10. tynan
    
11. tylanol
    
12. Archibald Pelagois
    
13. Tymon 'Tynan' Dogg
    
14. Jebus
    
15. Andy.w + all seven living members of the IoM's population. Kippers for Balki.
    
16. jaw (+7 dwarfs to give sexual favours at the finish line)
    
17. MA3K
    34.C.B
    
18. diapo
    
19. lemondragonfly
    
20. Regal
    

Also just noticed the incredibly ropey Photoshopping going on there. Bar/wheel angle fail.

Australian irony?

Even if it got two u-lock on the frame, once the bike got nicked, the theft have all the time in the world to concentrate on cutting the offending u-lock on the bike at their secret batman hideout.

This is the truth. I had a bike locked up in a private (but shared) hallway, Abus D-locked through the front wheel (to the metal banister - all I could manage, it was a tight space) plus a heavy Abus chain + padlock through the rear wheel and frame, and then a cable through the frame and front wheel. Obviously they blagged their way in somehow, snipped the cable, left the front wheel (QR, natch) and sorted the chain out later.

Only keep my bikes in the flat now. :(

@korova: in this case the police also had zero interest in taking prints from the front wheel and d-lock. Ed's right, the level of bike theft in London is getting out of hand.

Must revere the 1st cat rider...

Nope, just acknowledging that fact that the rims are fit for purpose, not trackenger chic.

just to clear up i am 1st cat rider and have riden manchester for over 8yrs

Then +1 to those rims, and the build generally. It's very nice. I just assumed it was a street ride (stupidly).

Rims need to be deeper.

My new "favourite trick*" when faced with a mass of peds walking out looking in the wrong direction goes as follows:

1. Remove hands from handlebars
   
2. Cover face in a braced for impact position
   
3. Scream loudly as if fearful of crashing, until said pedestrians scatter
   
4. Ride away laughing your head off :)
   
   

*props to multigrooves for showing me this first!

I lolled. Can't wait to try this.

I'm in, as Interlopers FC.

Actually, stem #21 as well please!

Stem #11 and the "Competizone Tour de France shape silver 40cm VG £9" bars please Hilary.

PM in two ticks

Because I don't read that thread. Somebody posted it in Porn, which is where I picked it up. I note that there has been little or no complaint about its being posted in Porn, reinforcing the prejudice that it is only OK to make positive comments on forumengers rides, while anonymous fgg bikes can be slagged off at will. Max is man enough to take it, so the double standard exists to protect the feelings of lesser men, who need to HTFU

shrugs

The post immediately after it in the porn thread was "ffs its not even finished", which I guess would suggest a) it's a current project, and b) that's a complaint about it being posted there. But I'm really not bothered about the notion of criticising forumengers' bikes, I'm all for it. No double standard. It was just the inappropriateness of doing so in porn/anti-porn.

I'm like this bothered.

Posting in anti-porn at least gives some feedback on what to do to make it a finished article.

Why not do that in Current Projects, when that's where the owner has posted it? Posting it in P/A-P makes a pretty definitive statement of whether you consider it bloody wonderful or bloody awful. Not exactly constructive.

I like the fades on that frame. I also love all the nutty Colnago steel frame fade stuff that used about seven different mismatched colours. I dig it. It is good. However, I hate almost all the "swoosh" flat graphics that seem to be the norm these days. I'm sure it's an age thing. There will probably be lots of people ten years younger than me that will love that stuff. What really matters is whether the bike as a whole is coherent, that it makes sense.

Which is why posting a work in progress in either Porn or Anti is a bit unfair, no?

Lovely Quinn. Would suggest the wheels would be nicer in all-silver (are they black spokes as well?) but generally lush, great find.

Reminds me, I got some NOS Shimano centre pull brakes for my Pug... just needs that final cash injection for the wheels and cranks now.