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Bob Jackson updated, pretty much how I want it, you seen my mug plenty enough;

Added to bike porn folder.

Two weeks ago...
Properly: When a car turned left into me when I was in line with the passenger door and nudged me off my bike. Tore my gloves, ripped my favourite jeans (Note To Self FTW!) and grazed my knee and elbow. Somehow my arm-warmers survived.

The night before that...
Mucking about: Skidding through a puddle in a polished concrete car park, then trying to turn pretty much straight afterwards... wet front wheel + polished concrete + sharp turn = fail.

It's pretty ironic though... I spend ages tuning my bike to get it as quiet as possible (and constantly scare peds), and now you're complaining about cars being too quiet and "sneaking" up on you

When I did visit London though, I found it extremely annoying trying to have a normal conversation whilst trying to walk down the street. Bloody buses are way too loud.

Get it up...!

I'm gagging to see it!

Just grip it and rip it.

I like how it look, nice and aggressive than your usual flat bar and flat stem.

+1

It's been a year since I last put pics up here so...

Bike

According to a few other people, the bars and stems looks wrong together, but hey, that's what I'm running (check the silver Malvern Star w/ Aerospoke a few posts back) and I dig it.

Nice bike.

Small world.

It's on the Arkitp / MASH blog now. Good work.

That would look sooooo much better without the spok and with a rear wheel to match the front.

I'd also probably loose the risers, they look wrong with that stem and go for some drops

Well I do have a matching rear wheel, but the Aerospoke is fun. I've put a black front tyre on to match the rear since this pic was taken. I also have a nice Cinelli stem and Cinelli Pista bars, but I don't like riding on the street with drops.

Whats wrong with the stem and risers combo?

A few changes to the Malvern Star.

Where did you get them from? I ended up spending all my gold nuggets on new hubs so now I don't have enough money to buy normal vans let alone the GM ones.

I have the GM Half Cabs.

So nice, but pretty tight fit. I have other Half Cabs in US9, and the GM are almost too tight...

Where is the PDF...?

NEED

TO

SEE

ISSUE

#3

is it true that it's better to have a gearing of even numbers? like, 48/18?

Not if you skid.

Folks are coming down to see me off and take me to the airport. Result.

I hope you've got all the tools to put it back together when I arrive!

Yeah, the thing is....

Of course I have! I even have a dedicated bike room now!

Look at where the bars point on that bike you posted... They're pointing way too high.

Pretty sure the end of your drops should be lining up with rear brake bridge, like so...

Thanks to Fyxomatosis for the pic.

49x17 on one bike, or 42x15 on the other... might go to 46x15 tonight. Bless the flatness of Adelaide.

Well now I'm very intrigued... seeing that I'm one of the very few fixed riders in Adelaide...

Can anyone send me a copy of the article as a PDF? Fresh is grabbing me a copy to post over, but that may take some time...

Although I read that on an ex-pat site rather than the Emirates site. Their site doesn't mention the dimensions of checked baggage. So I should be OK with a bike bag/box.

At least you got plenty of shops near you where you can get a bike box easily enough. Although catching the tube with it is another story...

Yeah, hoping Fresh remembers to get me a copy.

Can anyone explain to me what this article (I'm assuming it's an article) is about? Is it about Adelaide, South Australia?

Still need to figure out the bike issue. Total luggage allowance is 20kg and the dimensions Height, width and length of bag can only add up to total of 157cm apparently. a bike bag/box is going to bigger than that looking at the dimmensions of some online.

Really? wow.

Mandy's frame was couriered interstate in a cardboard BMX box. You could fit a track frame in one of those pretty easily... but yeah, a whole bike pulled apart might be a bit of a mission to fit in a 157cm square box. Especially with a wheelset.

you can't anti-porn this! ok, some of the parts are a bit off but i would never stop looking at it if this was my bike.. heavyweight!

One thing though...

line up you fucking tyre labels with your valves!!!

other than that... nice.

Ah man, I picked up two perfect woolen jerseys when I was in London... pity they don't go too well in the 40ºC weather we've been having.