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If its drilled for a front brake I'd love to take Harry off your hands!

My first forum ride and certainly of first of many (i hope)!
Great day out, good riding and ace company!
What a thoroughly nice bunch you all are!
Thank you to Mr. Fresh for his organising skills, and to all who had such kind words for the 'Spooner'!

Will be going to the America early May and will sadly miss Vintage Jersey II (Merino's Revenge?) but will definitely be thinking of y'all!
Any of you happen to be in LA and want a run out May-Aug then shout!

Pm'd you!

Thats exactly what they want you to do!

Stay on it just to spite them!

Apologies if this sounds a bit hippy but I too am currently 'freelancing/resting' and its not a great place to be all the time, but reading stuff like this and speaking to people in your industry now and then is a bloody good idea just to remind yourself that you are not alone and you are not an unemployable fool!

Doesn't help you earn anything but it does keep you sane!

1. fresh
   
2. Oliver Schick
   
3. coppiThat
   
4. Dilworth
   
5. Charco
   
6. Spudger
   
7. George Sportif
   
8. dante
   9.DMCZone
   10.Edmundro
   11.veLLo
   
9. Bobs Dids
   
10. Sorethroat
    
11. Heyholetsgo
    
12. 105champ
    
13. gizmond
    
14. Aroogah
    
15. MrBig-G
    
16. Persian
    
17. RENE
    
18. Cornelius "Domestique" Blackfoot (must buy jersey, must buy jersey, if anyone sees any merino ones let me know)
    
19. motman - just missed out on fine vintage jersey on ebay... the hunt is still on!
    23.Sarah h
    24.Mo_Mo
    69.CrazyJames (will try and get hold of a jersey! Camera gear coming with me also)
    
20. Morgybaby
    
21. Mann1e
    
22. Dropout
    
23. Photoben (but needs to build bike first - anyone got wheels and campy gears for sale?)
    
24. Nosferatu
    
25. monakuku
    
26. Churchy
    
    
    

It'll be my first forum ride so be gentle with me!
Looks like a great route / excuse to dress up like Mick Talbot in the style council!

just had a friend come back from being in LA he's heading back out there in may i think, and he was working in a bike kitchen out there, will mail him for info, and let you know...

That'd be me then!
Plans are a little uncertain at the minute but I hope to be out there again about then, I need to earn some cash though so I can't be 100% on when I'm out next...
I did a couple of shifts at the bicycle kitchen but was too flakey to keep up going there as much as I should have, maybe if I get back I'll try again!
Mackenzie, I'll give you a shout if I'm in town when you are, it'd be great to have someone to ride with - most of my favourite routes all went from the canyon where we were living and seemed to end at the coast, they weren't all amazing roads, and the general standard of car driver is scary, but its such a cool way to see the city and learn the different neighborhoods... oh.. and it wasn't raining! (all the time!)

Slack Chain.

That on the bay?

With all the discussions that concern the ins and outs of bike aesthetics on this forum surely a bad font cannot be overlooked! If you want to look retro get a perm!

That Harry Quinn looks sooooo nice...
would fit my short legs a treat, I can't see it fitting my bank balance come the end of the auction though!

I am interested have you got decals for it?

and how cool is this "hill-climb" special

The hill climber is a splendid beast!
I'm hoping when the paint comes off my frame will have the same chrome lugs as the second one on the page... I haven't got decals yet but I do have a number for Mr Spooner that the people who boght his old shop gave me, they were pretty sure he'd have some.
Otherwise I may well remake them, get rub downs made and lacquer over them?

Hello forum!
I ride a single speed and occasionally fixed (learning!) 80's road bike around london!
Its a hand built frame by a guy called John Spooner, curly lugs and nice to ride...
Like a much more beaten version of the second one on here http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/builders/spooner-cb.html

I'm currently restoring and updating it and hope to have a nice old school 'gentlemans' bike
at the end of it, probably keeping it SS and then maybe start a new build for a fixed track bike.
Its going to be resprayed soon and then i'll try and work out how to put a picture
in the projects thread...

...that is probably of no interest to anyone, but you've got to start somewhere!

Caustic Soda worked for me!
Id almost given up hope after trying WD40, mallets, swearing and worn out both arms... but searching random forums and finding I was not alone helped me keep my sense of humour...
and it felt so good when the damn thing finally started twisting loose!