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The geometry of that Gates/Alfine looks quite a lot like my Thorn XTC, although I don't have disc brakes. It's a fantastic bike, though - I think it's probably my favourite of all the bikes I've ever owned. Nothing touches it for versatile, every-day transport regardless of load or distance.

Make your own! Take equal quantities of evaporated milk and double cream (eg 1 tin of evap and the same amount of cream). Whip the cream then stir in the evaporated milk. Add half a quantity of good-quality pure maple syrup (eg half a tin). Freeze overnight. No need to beat it halfway through freezing or anything like that. Best ice-cream you've ever tasted, I promise you. You could probably replace the maple syrup with home-made caramel or high-quality fruit jam.

Hi,

I test-rode a couple of standard singlespeeds: Fuji Track and something else I cant remember, both with drop downs etc. I found them to be too 'greyhound-like' for me, i guess I need something with a bit more beef, prob what Im looking for would be the ultimate pub bike, i just want something real easy, comfortable and fun to ride.

How about a nice older British light tourer converted to singlespeed? My pub bike is a Claud Butler road bike - sturdy 531 frame, relaxed geometry, moderate gear ratio. It's as comfy as an old slipper and the relaxed geometry and well-raked forks give handling characteristics appropriate to the more 'relaxed' rider - ie not so twitchy that it dumps you in the gutter when you're pissed.

One day, when there is no more oil left there, I can see America launching a full scale nuclear attack on the entire middle east and ending the problem once and for all. I think this is the reason Iran wants nukes.

That's pretty much the only hatstand paranoia I allow myself.

When there's no oil left, the US will stop bothering to prop up Israel. The pUS supports Israel so that it can have a strong, non-Arab military/intelligence ally in an unstable and hostile part of the world that happens to have loads of oil under it. With no oil left, I reckon they'll get out of there and let them all get on with it.

Not good aerodynamically, I would have thought, either - lots of turbulence around all those little struts and holes.

That Youtube epilator clip is a bit 'special interest'. Not quite my cup of tea but I bet there are men who would get a lot out of watching that.

ball shavin is a thing most men have to do, specially if you ride bikes,
but really
legs!!!
just ask a few female friends what they think..................G A Y
its really not going to affect your performance.
last post...promise;)

Er - just a minute... Can we rewind to this statement for a minute? Most men shave their balls? Joke? Or are my friends not telling me something?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Touring-Push-Bike-Cycle-Dura-Ace-8-Spd-Columbus-Tubing-/280510955489?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item414fc17fe1

is it ok to flog cheap cigarettes on here ?
is it against the law ?
where else apart from brick lane can i sell them
got a couple of soft pack malboro lights cartons the fags are just a bit heavy i'm more of a silk cut guy

Yes, it's against the law to sell them anywhere unless you are a licenced tobacconist, in which case you can still only sell them from your own premises.

You want to buy some boat trailer wheel bearing grease. Last time I looked, a kilo cost about the same as 100g of bike-specific stuff, but it's designed to drive at 70 down the motorway then in and out of sandy salt water...

A lorra lorra people haven't either. I've made it a personal anal-retentive mission to correct people when they misuse jealous. Sorry, I was being a prick.

I'm only envious of your lovely bikes.

Yes! I'm not alone!

Fuck's sake! So many amazing bikes for sale on here right now!

Oh god... That's me 'finished'...

I'm enjoying my Sennheiser HD228's. £40-ish? I'm a bit of a Sennheiser fan anyway, based on their ace microphones and stuff...

I used to drool over a Klein road bike in the window of an expensive bike shop back in maybe 1992... Pearlescent white finish, all quite understated, nice close ratio gears, weighed fuck all and cost like £2000 or so as I remember [I have to say that my memory is not great so I could well be wrong], which was quite a lot of money back then, considering that a few years later I bought a house for about the price of 20 of them.

. . . when placed into a silver and white braided cable sheath with massively over engineered and styled connectors at each end and placed in packaging that cost more than the cable parts themselves you can charge hundreds of pounds for a speaker wire.

But it's GOLD - it must be worth a lot, right? Never mind the fact that when any connector bites down onto gold plated copper wire it cuts right through the microscopically-thin plating into the horrid old copper underneath.

As I understand it, the point of the gold is that it doesn't corrode, so you never have an oxide layer on the outside, interfering with the connection between speaker / amp and cable.So possibly if they'd left the mains wire there for ten years, the sound might have gone downhill a bit by the end. Or maybe not... But the guys who were doing the test were fairly serious studio engineers, not half-deaf live sound engineers, and they set up the blind test carefully then sat there with clipboards marking which cables they thought were being used on a wide range of different bits of music, and the end result was pretty much random. One of them thought that the only pattern was that they tended to think that slightly more trebly music was coming through the expensive cables, whether it was or not.

Some of that hi-fi stuff really is magical thinking - does anyone remember those green felt tip pens that were sold - you were supposed to carefully draw a line around the edge of your CD's, and it would make them sound better...
I once sat in on a blind test with some studio engineers, with two identical pairs of monitors, one wired up with very, very expensive speaker cable and the other with ordinary mains cable (about 1 sq mm cross section as I remember). No-one could tell any difference at all.

I would give Cambodian crystals a miss if I was you.

Cambodian crystals have been rubbish since the alien elders used them as energy sources to power their proton-fusion plasma rockets that they used in their war against God.

Stick with the Bolivian crystals - that stuff definitely gets my aura vibrating with profound matric empathy.

A friend of mine told me that when she was about five, she was playing with her guinea pig in the back garden of her house in somewhere like Huddersfield. Her dad was reading the paper in a deckchair with a knotted hanky on his head. Suddenly an adult eagle owl dropped down out of the sky - escaped from a local safari park, they later heard - and grabbed the guinea pig. She could still hear its terrified squeaks as it was carried off into the sky and out of sight. Her dad lowered his paper a little and said "Bloody hell. You don't see that every day, do you?"

Stokes Croft / Gloucester Rd is a hotbed of single-speed hipsterism this spring. Also very good for pubs, bars and food. Greenbank is a nice place to live if you like it cheap and urban with good access to high class spicy food products (the mighty Sweetmart on St Marks Rd). The Chelsea is a great pub too, in that area. And you must pay homage to the mighty Felafel King down by the Watershed in the city centre.

As far as the wine boxes go stick them outside for a while and then put a few coats of danish oil on them. Danish is the only way to go! With all oils less is more - apply and rub off excess. Varnish is fucking hideous!

I'm a big fan of Tung oil - Chinese wood-preserving oil. Lovely soft matt finish.

would it be safe to say that in terms of failure rate, ti is probably the longest lasting when compared to carbon, aluminium, steel?

doubt there are proper statistics on such things as it would depend on manufacturer and how well they keep records etc

In my limited experience I'd say that steel was probably the best in terms of failure rate, but at the price of a bit of weight. I don't personally think that aluminium is a very good material for bikes - I've had two aluminium frames fail on me through work hardening / stress fatigue - type fractures, and I wouldn't buy another one. Plus it's not at all comfortable on a longer ride.

Whaaa?!

I'm only hoping her condition isn't hereditary. That's all.

Which condition - her pre-disposition to over-imaginative excuses? Fair play - I've got a touch of that myself, and it hasn't always been helpful...

She should be sterilised.

What, for shagging a black man she's not married to? Seems a little harsh - us humans do do that kind of stuff quite often. Divorced, though - that would be a bit more proportionate...