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Well, it balances out the 'sans bar tape' species out there.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71724998/TREK%2069r/Trek%20%2069r/IMG_1925.JPG

Reckon wrapping bars is an art form and a very pleasing task to do.

Place to put your chain.

Picture taken in Austria(?), though some of these guys are actually Bavarian.

sure there are some nifty hills to be ridden there.

It's a rat! Yep, err.. because its ratty tail, sorry, fork has gone all rusty!

This morning at about 8am, I'm cycling along Palmer Place just after crossing Holloway Road, heading to Liverpool Road. There's a queue of traffic ahead of me stopped at the lights so I'm going pretty slowly. A guy on a red and black Cervelo road bike passes me at speed and is obviously not looking where he's going because he crashed straight ito the back of the car at the back of the queue. He was lucky not to go through the rear windscreen or do any significant damage to the car because he was going pretty fast. I stopped to check if he was ok, he said he was but looked in some pain. Don't know how much damage he did to his bike, maybe bust the forks or front wheel. It was completely his fault because the car was stationary, perhaps he'll look where he's going a bit more in future.

That just made me think of a similar accident that happened to me years ago:

Bombing it down the hill. Tried to slam in the biggest gear, the chain jumped out of the smallest cog. Thought wtf?, looked down, hit a car at its rear lights and slid all along its side to land right in front of the car. All because my chain got hooked and let that distract me from noticing the traffic ahead coming to a halt. Still feel sooooo glad I didn't make a frontal hit, as I was actually going quite fast.

One of those seldom events that make you go from wtf? to WTF? in less than a split second. Anyway, true that you should be actually looking to where you're heading.

Blue & white here. Everything looks fine. What's the matter?

bikes getting taller, aren't they?

with stickerz

It's always a weird experience to take your broken bike in the public transport.

Better call the A-Team to sort this out.

Scroll up, you'll get the score of the story...

btw, thread read fail..

Is it me, or is the chain ring so worn out the chain isn't sitting properly?

Another strong argument for silver is, no odd looking brake surfaces/wear on all black.

Yup, looks even worse to have a black rim with an unused brake surface..

Bars and bar ends are silver (not replacing the fuckers AGAIN) but mostly wrapped in black.

I'm very tempted to just build an all-black S42 front and replace the tire up there in black (I want something more puncture-resistant) and leave the rear as red hub/spokes, black rim and red-sidewall tire (until I wear it out).

I don't know if that small splash of red will just look really out of place then, though.

I don't REALLY want to do a totally stealth build because frankly there are too many of them (and I secretly like the red).

Red is not bad, when placed properly and rarely. But get rid of the chainring..

Silver rims might make a win if the rest is toned black.

Stealth mode is common because it's a safe game that seldom goes wrong.

An all black build will look good, when all black.

Tried the combination of all black with some silver parts contemplating.. Didn't work, 'cause you just wouldn't see it. So the last silver parts are being replaced.. (speaking of my whip..)

btw; Malasyan: That's not an all black build, rather silver/black.. Though the steerer should be made silver.

that's the true side of the story, though.

There are some guys out there who know how to stop sans brakes 'n' retention...

Jesus...

http://feed.lanzine.com/post/20972159531/heres-the-new-l-a-n-label-lookbook

His looks are as much classy as cmd.exe.

Its been great, I wanted to go fixed as I am a lazy git and was fed up cleaning my geared bike, I have cleaned this once in a year and it has not grumbled.

Lazy bummer, that's not what you clean your bike for.

functional >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

You climb for level bars?

And if skinnier tyres pose a higher risk for pokes:

The advantage is, though, that you can keep an eye out and 'squeeeeeeze' through pointy debris.

Btw, did check my tyres for little glass eaters making there way through. There where some to be found! More in the front than the back though.
Note to self: check that more often.