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I never realised it was an actual product, I though he'd just welded a basket to some BMX bars hence "DIY version". I guess someone could do that if they really wanted and it would save a bit of cash.

He's talking about this:

So yeah basically the cheap DIY version of ^

Every time someone complains about what should be posted in this thread God puts a basket on a track bike.

Theo how can a small guy like you eat so much?

Even science can't explain all the wonders of the universe my friend

Thanks Poots and Tibbs for organising, and everyone else too for helping make it a great day! Hope to see some of you again sometime.

I knew I should have gone to uni instead of home, I would have had this. Also if I didn't do my usual thing of getting lost about 2 minutes after crossing the river.

That frame is the tits. More pictures please.

Thanks, here's a picture of how I usually ride it - the basket was for another bike really although I'm kind of enjoying it on this - and one from the back. Don't have a real camera unfortunately.

It also has mismatched crank arms and electrical tape on the places where I kept taking paint off. I bought it off the forum at the end of the summer and since then I've only ridden the first of my other bikes a couple of times and the second has remained a pile of bits. I love it.

Cut the struts.

I actually wanted to do this (when/if I put it on the other bike) but you're clearly not supposed to and it would mean drilling new holes. It moved a little when I tried putting heavy stuff in it and riding over speed bumps but it's all right otherwise. Definitely stupid though.

I have a basket on an entirely inappropriate bike at the moment, that means it belongs in here right?

I don't anticipate it affecting the handling too much as I plan to use it exclusively for carrying cake and beer (and sometimes breakfast maybe).

1. Pootachu
   
2. Mr Shinigamiyagi
   
3. Smiff-sensei
   
4. jayloo
   
5. JaRyder
   
6. John H
   
7. c3k (hopefully)
   
8. photoben (it was my favourite film of the BFF)
   
9. Clara
   
10. ListBreaker
    
11. Xander
    
12. Sumo
    13.utters in pyjamas
    
13. (T)4-chan
    
14. Cornelius ChilliChickenRamenFoot
    
15. middleofnowhere
    
16. dimi 三
    
17. Tanya g
    
18. econudon
    
19. laner
    
20. ian (korokke) [unless i do L2B Fiddy Memorial]
    
21. freehrmny
    
22. pops1207
    
23. 狐
    25.lazysuperhero
    
24. Brakerate Hero McNinja-Noodleface.
    
25. Tiddy (Dependent on a certain Derbyshire frame builders)
    
26. Sally - stages 4 onwards + afterparty
    
27. Robichan
    
28. svnlto
    
29. 1000-nen-dai tenshi
    
30. Samueludon
    
31. ms.chris
    
32. billybob
    35.lolabelle
    36.markypoos
    37.BernieRonin
    38.almacinohwa
    
33. 真空キス
    
34. fotochan
    
35. Cedywedy
    
36. kuba
    
37. Flesh
    
    

I'm in, wasn't sure since there are so many people already but there was that empty spot on the list there... and I've got Japanese in my username and everything

Just now a taxi (not in London, not a black cab) pulling out of a side road into traffic just acted as if I wasn't there at all. I think he would have driven into me if he didn't have to stop before touching another car; I was trackstanding while turned towards the curb a bit and the corner of his bumper was actually within the angle made by my front wheel and frame, something like this:

I just kind of looked at him blankly while he rolled towards me then when he stopped gave him the finger with a dramatic flourish while toppling sideways and trying to get my foot free (I succeeded and filtered away from him when the car in front moved).

Not a complete horror story like some of the posts in here but I was stunned by how completely he refused to acknowledge that I was there.

Also this is probably the wrong thread since I'm not reporting him but I couldn't find a right one.

Well I'm jealous of Jake not just for his nice bike but for his ability to own it without beating it up.

The only other interesting bike I've seen is a massively stickered single speed with bullhorns that's always locked to some railings on Queen's Road.

My bikes all kind of suck

Really nice fixed red Colnago locked to a stair rail outside Churchill Square on Saturday. I U(d)TFS and it was in this thread but a different build... assuming there aren't two tidy red Colnagos in Brighton.

Also a cream conversion in Worthing town centre today, old looking frame with a weird rear bridge.

PM'd about crankset... I just killed mine on the ride home.

I woke up this morning with my laptop next to my bed and had clearly been looking for this thread. It's probably just as well I didn't find it, I wouldn't have been able to type coherently. Anyway, first off I have to confess that usually I enjoy riding drunk, but usually I don't get all that drunk, just enough that I know it is unwise to be cycling but not really enough to get hurt unless I'm particularly stupid or unlucky.

Last night though I got very drunk, more drunk than I had intended to, and just could not stay on my bike - I was slightly lost and quite cold and every time I tried to figure out exactly where I was or ride faster to warm up I would somehow end up grinding along the kerb and falling off. Or every time I did a shoulder check, or looked at someone on the pavement, or tried to go round/over a speed bump. I probably fell off more times last night than I have in the rest of my life.

After a while a very kind man persuaded me to get off and walk, his argument being something along the lines of "Look mate, I just saw you fall over in the middle of the road for no reason at all, don't you think you should get off your bike?". I have no idea why I went down at that point, I just remember riding happily down the centre of a clear road then hitting the floor and shouting "Oh for fuck's sake" as I was getting annoyed at falling over so much. I walked for a bit and that cleared my head enough to get home without falling off again, although I think I went the wrong way down a couple of one way roads on the way.

Amazingly I managed to deal with junctions and traffic lights without incident despite being brakless, the only damage to my bike is mashed up bar end plugs, and I haven't lost anything or picked up any injuries I can't remember getting.

Anyway thank you kind man, I probably would have hurt myself more if not for you. I hope your kindness impressed the girl you were with. But no thanks to my friend who phoned to see if I was getting home OK, obviously I was going to fall off trying to answer, nothing you said really made sense, and it was dangerous talking to you while lying in the road.

Do the mudguards come with stays and all the mounting hardware? If yes dibs.

I need proper brake levers (for calliper brakes) but because I am a vain man I also need the hoods to at least vaguely match honey Brooks bar tape.

If anyone in London has some I could pick up in exchange for some real money made of paper and ink and metal I'd be eternally grateful.

A guy on a white or at least pale bike with risers going the other way and looking at me as I rode down Stamford Street towards Waterloo Bridge.

Lots of polo people around Southwark (maybe, I forget), I think I trackstand failed or just trackstand gave up in front of one.

A woman carefully checking and waiting for cars as she crossed Charing Cross Road, looking right through me as she did so and stepping directly in front of me. She actually looked directly at my face but apparently completely failed to see me.

Me going out for a ride down the road and a cigarette and coming back 4 hours later. I spotted so much interesting stuff.

Pretty hard to miss it as it looks about 3 inches higher than standard!

I would doubt it is to enable use of 180 cranks somehow, more like appalling frame design

Get with the times yo, it's clearly negative BB drop for grind clearance. Plus you've got long top tube for barspinz, super short seat tube... the frames look like current trick bikes, but somehow I don't think the people responsible for this website really get this.

I would be tempted to buy one to dick around with the frame but they're actually quite expensive for something so patently shit.

All gone except the Charge bullhorns which will now cost you nothing but the calories you burn coming to get them.

Thanks everybody.

Updated.

If anyone's going along Tottenham Court Road this afternoon and wants the Charge bars I'll trade them for a (not shit) sandwich.

Sorry, I don't really want to post and I just got a PM from someone who'd like to collect.

Selling a couple of things as I keep spending my money on cool stuff and forgetting to buy things I actually need like mudguards. Sorry for bad phone pictures.

Pick up and cash on collection please, I live just by Camden Road and am often around Russell Square or Tottenham Court Road, I have no real day/evening schedule right now though. I'll deliver within reason but you'll have to ask really nicely if you want to try and convince me to cross the river.

Charge Slice, Silver - 24.5 clamp - 44cm - GONE
They're a little bent in on the right, I think from going down in the wet.

Nitto RB-021, Silver - 25.4 clamp - 40cm - SOLD
Only ridden a couple of times (I had been drinking when I bought them), no tape residue or anything but the clamping area is marked from slightly over-tightening a crap stem on them (I think had been drinking when I fitted them) and there's a shallow scratch from a brake lever on the right - couldn't get it to show up properly in a photo.

Charge Knife, Black - SOLD

Charge Spoon Cromo, Brown - SOLD
This has only been used once or twice.

MKS pedal combo - MKS Sylvan Track pedals, silver, MKS toe clips (L), silver, MKS single toe straps, tan - SOLD
A bit scratched up/worn beaten up but only cosmetic, still working fine.

Shit dude, buyer pulled out at the last minute?

If you still want to split I'd definitely take cranks, chainring and bb, I'm away from London till Thursday anyway though.

Does it clear those Resist tyres you've got in the rear?

Legendary Japanese track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmYWRN30M3k

Another famous old Japanese track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3eFfLPjnc

I learnt Japanese by listening to hip hop. (not entirely true)

Korea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H59z3eixoeE

Everyone's into the fast dude but he's the least interesting really.

Taiwan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OetE6Z0slbA

I've been listening to this guy loads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsJfT5bYVU

Dibs the not old style fly bikes bmx stem