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I've got a slightly different question, but similar.

I've got an OTP and am very happy with it, and am starting to plan minor upgrades.

But I feel as if I've slightly cheated, and would love to build my own bike.

Now I know there are millions of threads around building bikes which I need to read through, but what I guess I am asking, as someone who has never done much more than repair punctures and change tires, but is generally relatively handy when it comes to DIY and similar tasks, is building a bike going to me be realistic for me, even if it takes a while...

Clearly a boast-post...

What?

I had one as a passenger rather than a cyclist.

On the 76, between Waterloo and Hoxton he managed to use his horn 17 times (after I started counting). That tells you all you need to know about his style of driving.

You don't know any other facts in the case, because you haven't looked, or even read the thread particularly carefully - the video is old news, the civil case is new. Short version: your hypothetical situation is not what happened.

But I agree with Clive when he said that thing about the policeman being right and needing to prosecute the cyclist.

Of course it didn't happen, that's why it's hypothetical. You are right that I don't know the other facts, but I've only seen this thread and the linked article, and a cycling website link posted on a cycling forum is hardly a neutral source...

I was simply making the point that in a theoretical situation there may or may not be a justification for it, I don't know.

Imagine hypothetically he was cycling dangerously (the video doesn't prove that either way), It's possible that he was before, and for example another cop had tried to stop him, and had radioed the other cop to stop him.

Now I don't know US law, but wouldn't the cop have the right to stop him, using force if needed? After all they can run a car off the road in a car chase.

Of course we don't know any of the other facts in this case. If he hadn't done anything wrong it's clearly wrong, and it looks like the courts thought so too.

I had assumed speed limits apply to all vehicles, I guess not...

Downham Road to Brick Lane. Is that even a mile?

I've not done any rides since switching to fixed.

The Police have just posted a cyclst <--> HGV video on You Tube, what do you think? ...
YouTube - Exchanging Places

Very sensible advice there, if you have to overtake them, then do it on the outside, but of course there's much better advice. Don't overtake them.

Brilliant thanks. Now i have to actually look at my emails ;)

So when and where can we order? As i'm a large i don't want to miss out out on those 23%

The designs were sent off for the quote today, my bank is clearing my loan, and they should be in production within the next couple of days.

Just out of interest how do you know which colours and sizes to order, or is that just production in terms of the designs, not the shirts themselves?

So when will I be able to preorder them?

I want a penguin and the blue & red US sports style one.

Thanks. Those Cervelo ones look sweet.

Then there needs to be a trial to determine fault, doesn't there, Jr?

Absolutely, I was just disagreeing with the statement that it's always the fault of the driver, but yes more cases should go to court

And I hope you all have your towpath licenses.... ;)

Seriously though, there are some idiots riding on the towpaths, the ones that get me are the ones who go full speed under the bridges while ringing their bells as if that means that there won't be anyone under it.

Team Columbia jersey...Are you blind?

Yeah... just humour me.

Surely if someone has been killed, it's because of bad driving

I realise this is a really bad place to say this, and completely beside the point of this article, but I don't agree with this, or that the driver should always be at fault.

Obviously more often than not it is the fault of the driver, and something needs to be done about it, but there are also a huge amount of irresponsible cyclists too. As a theoretical example, the huge numbers of cyclists who jump red lights, if they get run over while doing that, I'd say that's their fault, not the driver who's driver across the junction who runs them over, and has to live with that for the rest of their life.

But I don't want to piss on the memory of those that have been run over by the fault of drivers, and I support what you are doing.

I want to get a jersey, probably a Team Columbia one, but I want to see a good choice.

Do you know any good shops for them? I saw Evans and Cycle Surgery had some, but not the ones I wanted.

I can get what I want online, but really I want to see it in person and try it on before I buy it.

Thanks for any help.

Yep, just bought this one two months ago. I love it.

If you will excuse me for butting in. I know neither of you, nor did I see this incident, and I don't know if either one or the other of you was rude, so really it's none of my business, but personally (and I can only speak for myself here), I would rather be called a thief and explain it, than have my bike nicked and people ignore it...

I'd love to do one to Oxford, just because my family live there...

So Oliver, are you likely to do another one after this, or is it more of a summer thing?

Damn it, that's bank holiday weekend, and I've booked a holiday in ze Vaterland. Pity, next time, or will that be the last this year?

Thanks for the replies.

reeen had a look at it, and confirmed it was the lockring, then I took it to the shop where I bought it, and the guy tightened it for me. Hopefully the threads didn't take any damage.

Hi,

I bought a new bike with a flip-flop hub around Easter, and only switched to fixed last weekend.

Over the week, I've had the following issue which has been getting more and more noticeable.

When I break quite hard using the pedals it feels like something slips and the wheel rotates a bit without the pedals, then it locks back in. When I pedal hard again (rather than just crusing along) it does the opposite, something seems to slip in the other direction, and my pedals suddenly rotate forward a bit without the wheels before it locks in again.

It only does them alternately, so it will only slip forward once it's slipped back etc.

At first I thought I was just doing little skids and then having wheelspin in the other direction, that's what it felt like to me, but I've had a look and the wheel is just rotating as normal, no skidding.

It doesn't slip much, maybe just a 1/16 of a rotation, but enough to notice it.

Any ideas what it might be, and how I can fix it? Is something not locked in properly? Will this damage my gears/chain/hub? As I'm new to fixed I don't entirely understand how it all works with lockrings etc.

I'm sure it's not my chain slipping as they are almost brand new gears and chains.

Thanks to anyone who can help