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Have to second the vice advice. Even with my supreme male physical strength, clamp-the-tool-turn-the-frame/wheel has been the only working approach on bottombrackets/freewheels.

If your apartment doesn't have space for a bench vice, consider attaching one to the wall. That gives even better ergonomy. When not in use, attach a board to the vice to make a coffee table/conversation piece.

Always check the righthand/lefthand thread issue before applying insane leverage. Google the the righthand/lefthand thread issue.
Double check the righthand/lefthand thread issue.
Triple check ...

I guess there's no need to mention: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gears/

He's not wearing Visible Colors.

prefer it really as the handlebar is nice and round to hold than having a cable sticking out under the clot.

Make "binoculars" of your hands. Look through them. You see the "binoculars" are not nice and round cause your fingers have "grooves". That's why a handlebar without grooves and with aero cabling is the best. In fact three cables per side looks like the anatomical optimal.

Not sure that any of the FCR series is truly anti porn, otherwise you'd have to include all flat bar road bikes from all manufacturers.

FBRB's belong in the dysfunctional bikes thread. What's the point changing the one part that's most obviously more comfortable in a standard road bike than in a MTB?

Here's a scenario, a cyclist is going to undertake you, how do you know if he's going to make that attempt?

Has happened to me mostly by moped riders. Right combination of speed, narrowness and idiocy, I guess. But also cyclists if they can catch me. Sometimes even cars.

But I don't sweat it. There sometimes is an idiot-usable line of travel between my line of travel and the curb. Idiots use it to undertake me. I don't care, cause I got my own line of travel. If I were to change my line of travel nearer the curb, I would check over my curbside shoulder that it can be safely done. Turning at intersections have to also check back (same thing driving car) because cyclists undertaking using the idiot shared footpaths.

Why not keep the chain in place and tie the crank to the downtube?
Bad for the downtube?

I'd like to ask you a question chainwhip if you don't mind, how would you know if a cyclists is approaching from behind?

Why should I know there is a cyclists (or car, lorry etc.) approaching from behind, if i'm holding my lateral position?
If I'm moving sideways within a lane, I of course look behind and yield to traffic in the new line of travel.

I'm of the opinion that none of my rearward checks are pointless.

Good for you! Essential rearward checks are of course essential. My point was that the Bikability material I've seen on the web often has statements like "You should frequently check behind for no reason just to no what's happening behind" and I think you should check behind only if you have a reason to do so.

Obligatory: Have you considered cycle training?
I'd love to attend your National Standards Cycle Training, if I visit Britain some day. I have been John Franklin's number one fan for a decade and I think it's sooo cool that your official program is based on "Cyclecraft". I live in Finland and I' m afraid that I'm the one who should be giving training here, but the problem is that when cycling culture reaches certain depth, the cyclists don't recognize that cycling training could offer something to them, so there is no market and 40 years of segregational policy has made proper cycling largely illegal.

My hope is that you London kids make proper cycling so cool that kids here want to be like them. So, could you please try to be very cool, I mean dressing like a person in a creative profession, ridin classic track bikes with shiny chrome, maybe some north road + wine crate vibe too and definetily some brown Brooks tape, yeah lots of brown Brooks tape you gotta have.

Pointless random rearward checks is bad advice. You should look behind only when you are preparing/negotiating a lateral move. You have only so much eyes in your head, only so much focus in your mind. If your eyes and mind are focused rearward, then they are not focused forward. Forward is the event horizon where the stuff happens. Stare pointlessly rearward for a half a sec and miss that child darting in front of you from behind a parked van, pothole coming after your front wheel, driver entering the roadway etc etc.

The beauty of good positioning is that you can have your focus forward for a larger share of time. If you position only half-good like left tire track (damn I hate your non-drive-side driving) then you have to be constantly merging to more central position and that means wasting your attention rearward.

Other than that maximum respect to your NS. I'm constantly in awe that a society can produce something that non-clueless about cycling. Really best thing happening to cycling since the invention of the freewheel. Gives hope to those of us in the nations without standards.

John S. Allen has been kind enough to release a version of his "Cycling Street Smarts" for rogue nations insisting on driving on the wrong side of the road:

http://www.bikexprt.com/streetsmarts/lhd/index.htm

do you have these? they're great indicators of where to ride on sketchy or narrow roads, especially for inexperienced cyclists. although some portion of the ride may be spent explaining to drivers what exactly the symbol means, since they're rarely accompanied by a public awareness campaign.

That's easy one. It's bike & Citroen lane. Right?

You should try reading 'Effective Cycling' by John Franklin before you go there, then.

Nice video.

You mean John Forester, Franklin's the British guy with the skinnier book.

Speaking of visual, check out my gal Keri's video clips:
http://vimeo.com/14273330