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If you look on the Guinness ride thread you will see the state of my forks after it. No idea what happened but now I'm in need of some new chrome forks for my lovely bike. They are lugless 1" threaded forks with approx 40mm rake (hard to tell precisely now), the steerer length is 135mm and I'd prefer a brake drilling but can arrange one if not.

I've bought a shocking black set off ebay for under a tenner to get by but I want to get the bike back to looking lovely so any help will be greatly apreciated.

Thanks in advance.

small image fail, sorry bit drunk. (again)

Bike started steering a bit funny on the way home, possibly just after disconnecting my head on one of several thousand potholes on my way. Didn't bother investigating this until after my hungover ride to work (& back) and this is what I discovered

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I guess this is the bike equivalent of a beer injury.

Off to the classifieds for me then.

Guy on a lo-pro skidding on demand in front of several inebriated Guinness Ride bad bitches outside Filthy McNasty's. Downhill and then uphill shouting we're costing you a fortune. Respect, but you should've stopped for a G.

Only just home as had to stop for some dodgy chicken cos some pretty girlie was carrying a pile of newspapers to use as a seat. I simply had to join her on half of the original pile.

Great to meet everyone and this should be at least a quarterly event with a death TT of 4 laps of soho sq broken by a pint of the G and then 4 more laps with a skid finish at the toucan (road closures permitting). This sounded great outside the angelic but looks pretty wank in print.

Apologies, drunk.

Geoff?

Indeed. Will call ya when I arrive and line the G up. (probably on the kerb as it'll be rammed beyond belief)

my favourite part of the night was throwing up around the corner of my house.

stupid beer

You sure it wasn't the coffee? Or even the 'free' cookie?

Good work either way!

Just seen mmcarthy's ride at norths. If he beats anyone to the Toucan, we all owe him a pint!

Oh and for anyone who spots him, definitely shout 'do a skid' as the noise is friggin awesome from the coaster brake.

Gonna head straight to the pub to meet BJB so will do timekeeping honours also if required.

Cheers!! (in anticipation)

1. Aleksi (Team Southside)
   
2. williamshatnerpants (Team East Representzzzzz)
   
3. gormley
   
4. mmccarthy (Team West)
   
5. shoots
   
6. moog (Team West, not sure if I can make the tt though)
   
7. jonny
   
8. shinscar
   
9. asm
   
10. hillbilly(I'll have to catch up but I'll find you)
    
11. Nikolai
    
12. Jung (can go on loan to team east as it's nearest my office....)
    
13. Bernie (Southside soldier)
    
14. the lush (North, no tt as on 42:17 due to fucked knee)
    
    

If anyone north(ish) fancies one in the Auld Shillegless pre-event let me know and I'm there.

I work for XXXXXXX responsible for the enforcement of vehicle road safety both in the mechanical sense and also drivers. One of our activities is carrying out accident investigations where a HGV is involved looking at the roadworthiness of the vehicle prior to the incident. Unfortunately I'm not available for next weeks meeting but if you need any information to do with HGV road safety standards and also driver responsibility please pm me and I'll get you everything I can.

Drivers blind spots have been a hot topic of late within the DfT up to the point where we were handing out fresnel lenses to foreign left hand drive HGV's at major ports in order to reduce the incidents of sideswiping by these vehicles on the roads. For UK HGV's, the legislation regarding wide angle and close proximity mirrors changed this year so that the drivers view of the immediate area around the cab had to be increased by the fitment of extra mirrors in some cases. If the cause of most of these incidents, partially or wholly, lies with the vehicle construction then the DfT are the people to lobby.

Sorry this was a long one, I just wanted to get some info across as I'm nowhere near a puter or the interweb next week.

Yeah definitely mate. Will be after work tomorrow so can be Dalston way 5.30ish or anytime after that suits you?

Interested in the wheels, where are you based?

some of us weren't posting but enjoying the company in the Flask. Nice turn out this pm chaps...

were you just enjoying the nakedness tho?

Think I've finally dried out but my shoes smell fucking horrific in a dead wet dog kinda way!

On wedding duties this weekend and the next unfortunately but will pm you my number to sort something out. Cheers dude.

Oh, I'm from Up Holland which is why I asked.

I'm up for this. I live Crouch End so no worries on getting to you whenever you want.

Prolly a really stupid question but as we've never met are you from Wigan?

Lovely to see Elias, Jeff and Vicky join the regulars. I'm sure I have spelt all names incorrectly.

Bang on the money Arvy, it's Geoff & Vicki.

Good to meet you all last night and no doubt I'll need a name refresh when I'm back up there in 2 weeks.

My bike for 20 years in October

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New (re)build from another bike of mine thats about 18 years old, will probably be my g/f's when we figure out what gear she wants. (hence the freewheel)

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Me, much older than 20 in October.

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See you at Norths tomorrow.

First post for me here after a cool night on the hill. Really enjoyed it despite not knowing anyone and was great to meet a few of you. Definitely gonna be a regular Tuesday event for me from now on.