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I'm about 8 miles round trip (queens park/kilburn to great portland St) .. but I rarely go straight home, quite often end up east and ride home after.. Also commute from Dulwich where my lady lives fairly regularly.

I found I lost loads of weight when I switched to ss from gears.. I also rode much more..

..and then when I changed from ss to fixed, my thighs got super awesome ;)

a million tragic hipsters in central london today. Oh dear

says wikipedia.

and yes it does work.

"Countersteering is the technique used by cyclists to initiate turning toward a given direction by first steering counter to the desired direction ("steer left to turn right"). In order to negotiate a turn successfully, the combined centre of mass of the rider and the single-track vehicle must first be leaned in the direction of the turn, and steering momentarily in the opposite direction causes that lean. Once sufficient lean is established to sustain the desired turn, the rider, or in many cases the bike itself, then steers into the turn to cause the bike to turn in the desired direction and stop the lean from increasing."

thanks man

hi mate, sounds great - i think it's going to be a single speed, mainly because of budget. I'm 100% certain she won't want to ride fixed though so it doesn't have to be a track hub!

wow.. thanks man

damn - too small for me.. I'd be biting your arm off otherwise.

Half-Pipe on Golborne Rd, at the top Portobello Rd.

No way man, those guys are total rip-off merchants.

Hi all, am currently building a bike for the better half. Have a lovely frame (thanks to mr bang and miss britten!) but missing some other parts.

Trying to do this on a budget so need to watch how much £££ I'm spending - any offers?

the angle needs tweaking, have ordered a seatpost that has tilt adjustment..

Unfortunately it's already started to go blue/black ish from my jeans :(

gorgeous bikes.. absolutely amazing stuff.

This one ended earlier.

amazing harry - where is that from?

guy in matching blue lycra/hat/bike going the wrong way round regents park today - nod exchanged. Hello

Also.. Blue Terry Dolan from Gower Street to Old St running a much more manly ration than me. Nice bike! Later saw locked up outside that grocery place on kingsland rd.

My mum came back from her seaside holiday in St Annes bearing the gift of Swarfega. It's a funny thing to be given as a pressie, especially when you're expecting a stick of rock or an ornamental dog made out of seashells. Mums specialise in weird, I suppose. She didn't even wrap it. :-)

Does Swarfega really work, anyway? I went through a third of a pot at the weekend and my hands are still boggin'. My fingernails are particularly offensive. Scrubbing underneath them with a nailbrush dipped in Swarfega had minimal impact, so I'm off to Lidl tomorrow to look for that W5 stuff.

From the seaside?! Weird. I'm pretty sure mine came from Finchley Road Homebase or something like that..

I think she couldn't bare the idea of me going to meetings/work with my hands/arms/legs covered in bike goop anymore.

Swarfega works for getting the stuff of my hands, but the only thing that gets it from under your nails is a good sharp knife or the "scrapey under the nail" bit of nail clippers.

This thread is a-ma-zing. How did i miss it til now?

oh come on! I got a master system by saying I was gay! ..try it!

hahaha... amazing.

Sudocrem is mainly for cyclists. Babies can get to the back of the line.

actually lol'd at that. True. Thank god for that stuff.

Weirdly enough, last time I saw my mum she just gave me a giant pot of swarfega! Winner!

I can't believe this has caused such a shit storm. If you're patient you can build bikes on the cheap and still have fun, then just change bits as they break/you get more money.

Ed, hippy et al are right about it being easier to get a nice 531 frame out of london (it's ridiculous here at the moment), just hit the car boots/jumbles or look in local classifieds etc.. if you're looking for track(ish) geom then maybe try to find an old TT frame or find a frame that is slightly too small for you, then tweak the saddle height/tilt and stem/bars set up till its right.

SHIMANO 600 SIDE PULL Allen nut fitting 39-49mm drop, £15

PM on way

I <3 BSNYC.

personally i don't try to combine SPDs and casual. It never works and you just start looking like one of those dudes that wears camping gear around the city and always has a sense of where north is...

ha yeah - exactly "technical fabrics are great for the tube". Big lol.

fixie stunting.

Rad

Guy coming out of his house on Bravington Rd with orange fame/white front spok who nodded at me earlier today. You MUST be on here with a bike like that! :)

i'd like to see that in the flesh sir

does it have all the relevant embossed em logo's fromt forks and top of the rear stays ?
top tube

you can see the embosses on the forks from the photo's - they look right for the merckx aero fork. Can't see the stays but it all looks right.

Nice frame :D yummmmmm