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Hmm, unless you buy them from the UK distributor who only do them in pairs of 32H high flange colours or 2 x 28 silver - fortunately blue 32H high is what I want.

Interesting Condor apparently sell them, will give them a call tomorrow. They look really nice and £120 for a pair FTW!

I will look into Macks/the new Goldtecs, thanks Ed/James.

[bikeforum]I had heard bad things about BLB hence asking as I knew they had them[/bikeforum]

And then I saw the price.

Do they come in blue? ;)

Might as well get Mack hubs over Phil nowadays, they're made in Poland, cost half (or less) of Phils and just as good.

Hmm - that's exactly what I'm thinking superprecise - the prices are just silly. BLB have blue in but for £337 for the pair - Condor's quote to build my pair of wheels up exactly as I wanted (with £10 extra for black spokes etc) was £410.

Have you actually ordered from Aspire dogsballs? Did you get stung for tax? Aspire work out as £267 which is a big difference.

So poppped down to Condor at lunchtime to get a quote for my new wheels - I'm thinking blue Phil 32H hubs laced to black Mavic CXP33s with black spokes and black pro loc nipples.

Condor are only doing Phil Woods hubs in black or silver at the moment, told me blue would need to be a special order then that turned into 'no they'd be £100 more'.

I don't want completely black wheels!

Does anyone know if anyone else in London has coloured Phil Woods in or are willing to order? Or how much the price difference should be?

Not really, just wondered. Probably going to get some anyway.

@adoubletap thanks that is helpful.

Does it matter? You could just go for a poo before riding. Instant weight saving.

Oh yeah sorry I'm in NW5 if you want to borrow mine.

I'd agree with the first two bits, but brie? What's wrong with lithium grease? Isn't there a risk of the brie melting on hot days and your cog seizing?

Plus my grease only costs £2.50 a tube from LBS, bet your brie was more than that.

I like my Condor lockring, mine's black though. Very good for a fiver.

Buy a chain whip and lockring spanner. Also purchase King Island triple cream brie. It is very nice.

£9? I got one for £13 from Condor the other week :(

Does anyone know how much Phil hubs weigh? If no exact figure a guesstimate (i.e. are they light, medium, heavy for hubs) would be ok?

If you're actually riding it to work, I'd say get the Flyer. If you're doing R2W you can afford it and the carbon fork really does help absorb the bumps. There are lots of potholes out there. I've got one (so I'm biased) but they do ride nice. Take one for a test ride.

That's lovely, seems such a shame to split it up.

That said I would have loved to buy both your wheels, but looks like I'm too late.

Does anyone know if they could do a pair of SPDs?

I'd be gutted if my 631 Orrell had gone for £27!

Just before 7 yesterday (Bank Holiday Monday) evening going up Kentish Town Road a dark Dolan with a white deep v on the rear - nice disregard for the lights and finger action at the motorist who cut you up on the junction with Prince of Wales Road.

I was the Genesis Flyer that came up behind you and followed up to the Highgate Road/Fortress Road junction then had to go up Highgate Road, but as I was heading up the start of Highgate Road you had your hands up in the air like you'd just won the Tour de France, not sure what was going on there?!

A few days to kill or it was just a big jolly...

I think we should all email in telling them off for being lazy and not checking out the action on their own front door - maybe get Velocio to email them the stats from the looking for a sponsor page, shows how big things are in the UK.

I heard it, they did acknowledge at some point that it had reached the UK (I think) by talking about the increased popularity of fixed gears, but I did think they could have just interviewed some people in London instead of going over to the States.

Also the usual aren't they all crazy because they all drive without brakes type stuff.

Yeah well done. Interesting that the tea leaves are aware of 'summer trends'. Just shows you how having something fashionable/easily made fashionable makes it much more nickable.

Worth remembering that the official met advice on keeping a bike locked in the street overnight is don't do it, irrespective of lock quality etc.

Nice job, how did you get the decals off?

It's been a while since I've been on here, but saw this thread and thought I'd post mine up, here's mine:

http://theblend.smugmug.com/gallery/8151204_ZpExT#531880801_UkVTf

I'm a pr/marketing person that works somewhere with credibility and no, that's not what we do! That's what shit pr people do.

I always wondered what pr people do. Thats it? Hyping up a product with fake "down with the kids" crap?

Wish I'd seen the fight, instead saw lots and lots of fixed gears outside the diner on curtain road tonight, what was going on?

Ha ha, @theteleflorist that is spot on, I bet he was 14 and from Surrey.

I was in Rome a while ago and saw a woman with a goose on a lead. It wasn't practical.

ケイリン innit.

Just don't google nice japanese shit, really. I don't know why I did that.

Mooncups look great to me. But I'm a man, so have no fucking idea to be fair.