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Winson Green is the former name of the secure environment now better known as HMP Birmingham. Maybe this should have been a clue......

Do not be deceived by Cab's current scoring. He has a plan to sleep early then whup all your young asses come 3am.

It's kind of a tortoise /hare thing (if the tortoise was wily ex-truck driving Motorhead fan).

Whatever you do, don't let him got to sleep...

the bmx bar/basket thing might have been in the functional bike thread... in a rush and can't find it at the mo' but remember it marched boldly across the boundary of genius/madness!

as an aside - j-rok (and others), try and play nice with the new kids...

sorry guys, realise my first post was massively counter productive as i'd forgotten that it suggests you just hacksaw off the end of the bolt. however common sense* should tell you that leaving a sharp piece of metal sticking out of an object you're going to wave around near others is a dumb idea, so you'd hope that people wouldn't leave this as is (my mk1 mallet had this covered with a dome of epoxy resin).

i think ref's should be looking harder at this stuff, but also i think it's even harder to manage the safety aspect at more casual throw in's, as it can be difficult to say to someone that you've got a problem with their uncapped bar end/knackered mallet/mangled bike rack, especially if you're a relatively noob compared to them.

(*i should point out here that i'm not making any great claims for my general levels of common sense!)

edited... cos first attempt wasn't 1. particularly friendly or 2. remotely helpful for anyone who might want to make a mallet safely.

Possible polo bike????????

signed

I ran a chopped derailleur as a ghetto single speed mod for my what was then my work bike. Worked fine for about a week 'til a workmate dropped his bike on it, making me think it might not be a long term sturdy option for a polo.

Used a DMR tensioner for a few months, didn't have any problems with bolts stripping/similiar and it seemed pretty tough. Sadly someone effing nicked it!

Currently using the Superstar option. Been on my street/jump bike for 3 months which takes a fair hammering not disimiliar to polo and it's been fine, tho' it's a wee bit noisy. Also got a nice wide roller that gives you a bit of flexibility on chain line. I reckon a bit of a bargain for a tenner!

pm'ed regarding the chrome!

My DMR came with Hayes 9s several years ago. I haven't touched the back brake other than to change the pads and it works pretty well, though it's not exactly subtle. However I spent hours/£s trying to get the front brake to work from day one and had endless problems, eventually giving up and just running a back brake for a while. As you said if it doesn't work when you first get it, it's probably never going to work.

Going back to the OP, you could build up a pretty nice do-it-all for £400ish. I picked up an early 70s holdsworth f&f for £95 from hilary stone via this forum amd managed to pick up enough other bits from ebay/bike jumbles etc to be able to run this either fixed or 12 speed (inc mudguards and saddle bag!) for about £300, plus another £50ish on tools which I presume I'll be using again. Also only took four weeks from start to finish, tho' I realise that this might seem a long wait at this time of the year!

Are these still available?

think ed might have meant 'huck', the surf/skate mag.

clearly bored so had a quick search but sadly couldn't find anything dodgy with the word 'husk' involved.

possibly a blessing as god only knows what kind of porn that might involve...

'cooler'???

not really... i'd obviously much rather be handsome and clever like all the aussies i know :)

we don't know each other (yet), but we share a pride in in our common (if rather restricted) gene pool!

everywhere i've ever travelled i've met people from the isle of man... i guess the urge to run away at some point casts us far and wide.

we're kind of like australians but with (cough) better interpersonal skills ;)

Hey, enough with the Isle of Man bashing! We can't help it.... you get your relatives to inbreed for endless generations and see what it does to your fashion sense!

It also distracts people from our extra nipples/fingers/chromosomes/etc....

I might start a 'Heaviest Bike' thread for the winter. No more obsessing about how light your bike is... lets start a trend in the other direction. I'm digging my scales out now...

"They are for dropping stair sets and hitting the skatepark.
Very specific tyre which works well for it's application."

I know, they normally live live on my DMR which I use for dropping (or should that read "frequently falling headfirst") down flights of stairs. They're more than fit for purpose in this capacity (tho' you need to be careful hiting up anything metal and wet). The Trailstar is built like a tank and pre-Xmas I was about thirteen stone so I tend not to notice the extra weight of the tyres. It's only when I put them on my Gary Fisher ss that I remember why I don't normally buy steel bead tyres. However the extra effort probably isn't doing me any harm after the cheese and alcohol binge that was Xmas, and getting them on and off the rims probably uses several hundred more calories!

"We really are a bunch of geeks. 1 week of snow, and everybody is out building fat tyred beasts. Nice work."

Just come back from a ride nr. Bristol and my 2.5" Hookworms (see John's bike above) are now lying in the back garden. Not only do they double the weight of the bike, but they are worse than useless on anything icy. To add insult to injury I tried to take them off with cold hands when I got back and nearly ended up crying cos it took so long.

Can't understand why I have so many pairs of tyres but they're never the right ones....