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whats the plan this wednesday for beers? i came bout 3 years ago and not since so may pop down, wont know anyone though :( will there be any riding involved before hand? maybe a blast through town to earn a drink? i remember last time just smoking massive cigars and drinking alot for a wednesday. ill head home down lee bridge road towards walthamstow after, heard a few riders go home that way is this true? had one ask for directions on this thread earlier last week

i like the lampost right in the middle of it lol

Anyone off to south beers now?

would ride that hard if you ask me

Really though?

^ I would ride the fuck out of that.

Sorry, I posted up in the wrong thread Ben, latest from Matt snapped his collar bone big fragment apparantly, needs operation quite badly so he won't be down for a while. Ill try get down again for sure. Long old ride home but enjoyed it enough, ill come down on another bike next time, still have to use a lender if that's ok though

Head on collision, I had my back to him at the time but ive broken my collar bones before and straight away you could tell. He went over the handle bars, he's a mechanic and Instructor so a confident cyclist, happens to the best of us. Pretty mental for a first attempt at polo though

Played for the first time tonight at the westway along with a friend, he ended up in A&E with a broken collar bone, nethertheless it was great fun. id be down for turning up and seeing what happens picked it up quite well tonight

A mechanic mate of mines meant to be popping down to open up and get loaner bikes out so ill probs come down and have a look

lee bridge road, mare street, hackney road, clerkenwell boom!! do it every day

I've been riding fixed for a long while and I got good technique and strength in my legs. I run a brake so I can ride fast and the aim of changing the chain set is to be able to sprint between lights and on straight stretches keeping a higher top speed and average. i got another bike for tricking and another for city use geared higher, plenty of skid patches when I need it!

44/16 works out at around 74.3 gi, capable on the road and 48/16 at around 81gi

Not even then, I know plenty of people include myself that could do it but, why?

Who's ever going fast enough to justify it, unless either you're running lights or managing to accelerate to 35 odd in between each.

...unless you have the strength and technique to do so.

44/16 works out at around 74.3 gi, capable on the road and 48/16 at around 81gi

Thanks Hugo, just checked over my message and 140 must have been a typo, yeah the problem I was up against was I like the messenger cranks I'm running which are 130bcd and the miche advanced chainring I liked is 144bcd so would need to swap out the cranks too because the bigger chainrings dont fit. Money isn't a problem tbh as I've been saving for the swap for some time.

Been looking at 48 tooth and keeping the rear at 16, I've played around with multiple rear cogs on my other bikes and the next step for me is the chainring i think, I'm building up a winter commuter for bad weather so ill put the 44tooth 130bcd on that and then once I've chosen cranks with 144bcd I can swap out the rings as and when on the new bike.

I find I'm spinning out more so on 44/16 than actually benefiting from the gear, I'm mainly training at Richmond and regents so lots of flat riding, few inclines at Richmond, we all no the FAT HILL! Aslong as I can cope between cars commuting ill be fine I ride with a brake

My training program is pretty intense as it is to be fair. I just fancy a harder gear as 44/16 is to easy to train in an I feel like ill be able to benifit from a bigger chainring on the front. I did a triathlon today and 44/16 just didn't do it for me tbh.

Tbh I think ill just buy the chainring and try it, it needs replacing, I rather not have the hassle of messing with the other bike as I've just set it up spot on. Just want something harder to train in. Considering the miche crankset, running a sugino messenger atm, fancy a change

I have another fixed riding 42/15 so ill have to put a 14 on the rear to see, it's almost the same I guess, don't ride a geared bike

seen alot of people with 48/16, not a geat deal different from 44/16 so ill give that a try i reckon, cheers

By far the Best!!

This is by far the best one I've seen:

http://www.surplace.fr/ffgc/

I never rode fixed (starting to get a list of components for my first build, very excited) but I already know 48/19 is the ratio :)

i run 42/15 with an 18 on the flip flop, i have a freestyle hub so i can run two fixed cogs, i have two sram powerlinks in my chain i have to remove two links to make it possible in the dropouts when flipping over.

on my training bike which ive been commuting on a bit lately i run 44/16, i wana go bigger on the front, maybe 48/16 or 50/16 anyone ride these, 48/16 only has one skid patch where as 50/16 has a few more but may be to stiff, what you reckon.

Use a 44tooth sugino messenger crankset 130 BCD 165 arms atm and am thinking of upgrading my crakset so i can put the sugino set on the winter/rain commuter im building up for the coming winter.

The bike its on atm im slowly only using to train on and not commute so i wana go bigger on the front so ill be running 48/16 not 44/16 anyone running 48/16? could i go bigger? its a pricey spend to be playing around, not as easy as just buying rear cogs to try different gears if you get my drift.

Im torn between keeping a sugino crankset or going with a miche, if so ill change to a miche crankset as the pcd on a 48 seems to be 140 from the research ive done. Do they ride well? whats the quality like?

Anyone at the Dorney Lake triathlon today then? did the super sprint on a white Leader 735 hard day with the weather, good fun though

just looked through this thread, fucking hell, I work in shoreditch so to be honest its pretty much like any standard night outside a pub shit bike watching, fun!

I don't get the time to make a proper brew at work, instant has to do for me during the day and ill enjoy some nice ground coffee at the weekend and in the evening

You gotta make the most of instant because yeah it's not great, I've found a few good ones, I'd grind coffee all day if I could find the time.

I got no problem with banter, I was just curious as to what people drank and I got shut down for drinking instant coffee, which I gurantee 95% of you lot drink regardless of what coffee houses you drink in or whether your a regular at "look mum"