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Ooof, my nuts!
This hasn't moved in 2 years. I left a note on it recently.
All I got was a call from a drunk teenage girl, said she loved me.

Here's one. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLUE-GENTS-ELSWICK-MISTRAL-12-SPEED-24-RACING-FRAME-RESTO-FIXTIE-PROJECT-/321090461163?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item4ac27b9deb&nma=true&si=uio8u37PUh0pCaRJ3PKBHxNQR3s%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Enjoy building, learning and riding.
It will not be an earner by any means...as it's basic '80s Nottingham fodder, I'm afraid...

£5 posted to UK locations.

I'm breaking this classic bonded alloy number because the stays are 10 mm misaligned.
Due to untermensch activity.

I've got a functional selection, 50s to 80s.
You can have one free.

I've never worked on one of these before and it seems the thread is a good 1 or 2 mm 'bugger than standard'.
Does that sound normal? Is it a French thing?

If anyone in the East to SW1 can lend us one for a day, I will make it worth your while and might even return it.

No but probably could be depending on time, i will however most definitely be available in the prince regent :)

PM sent ; )

My all time best band of the 80s (...that no one's ever heard of) is The Chameleons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n_RB_H0llw

Then Wire, Magazine, NMA, Sisters, The The.
And anything from the house of Charles Thompson IV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3lhrwio-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHVKndMZIwI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0NV_0aLmiA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VuzkzlqP9A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbv_ant8H8w

Bit 'o metal, an exception.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Vo9SNgxbw

And the most prophetic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBP2fFMmur0&playnext=1&list=PL0335BF9FBF7BD5A9
&playnext=1&v=OBP2fFMmur0

They are shit at their job, but they do discipline drivers who get complaints.

And will black list drivers who repeatedly get complaints (IIRC three complaints about two different events in six months was a stackable offence).

Good. How do these dimwits 'not see' that in doing their job they are representing a large and visible Company?

Addison Lee's always badly driven Galaxys / Vitos will be next, I think...FFS!

Last week I was harassed by a Horning-Bully driver near the Royal London, driving a Tower Hamlets bin wagon, contractors Veolia. After he'd forced past he accelerated away for 50m until the next bike was 'obstructing' him.
With the traffic stopped, abuse was exchanged and I wound him up 'miming' the act of remembering his reg. number.

That evening, reading a thread like this, I found that I could remember some of the reg, found Veolia's web contact page and informed them, I though largely a cathartic exercise.
Next working day I had a call from a senior manager...a good egg, taking it very seriously.
So I sang him the chorus of "There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out".

PM sent

I'm a member of a Mercedes forum and the CLS model gets noticed.
I've put a link up.

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/driving-incidents-roadrage/150556-ak57ttj-cls-driver-possible-attack-city.html

Well that sounds ideal, I'd say.
If that's 127 mm OLN, it'll spring in easily.

Where are you?

I have a rather low quality one that's not black but is true.
It has a 6 speed freewheel but I could remove it.
Cheap.

I have a 1981 1" SR stem that should suit.
£7.50 posted.

Sold. Thank you, Chris.

As well as my Dawes frame, I have a fully built up ss / fixed 54 cm bike newly available (wife rejected..) based around an 80s Raleigh frame with Bianchi Pista wheels.

It weighs a Langster, 9.6 Kg.

I'm thinking of selling it for the build cost, which approximates to that of an Ebay / Hackney Chinese 'Numb-Bongo' fixie.

Also, hope you don't mind but have you got anymore pictures of the frame?

Sure, I could take more.
What areas are you interested in? Message me if you like...

If only it was 2cm smaller. :[ Would be a stretch for a 5'9 guy.

I'm an even shorter arse and ride two 54 cm frames with the about the same 56 / 57 cm top tube.

57 cm, centre to centre.

1981 Dawes 60 cm / 23.5 inch frame (paradoxically named "Lightening")
Paintwork rough.
£20 and might deliver to E postcodes.

Lambrettas are piston ported so need a 4% ratio, or thereabouts, unlike all Vespas since the SS180, which are rotary ported and 2%. That's why they are smokier.

The route into the engine of pre-mixed petroil is immaterial.
Lower oil percentages used is just down to better quality (i.e. synthetic) 2T oil.

Firstly you shouldn't trust all the advice you get from the Internet, but I'm still riding a frame that I got four years ago with similar damage.

(I'm suggesting tha my advice is the bit you shouldn't trust, not others)

Quite right, Sir.
Steel is a very forgiving and flexible material.
Just because a frame's been subject to forces beyond its plastic limit and deformed, doesn't mean it's dangerous; no holes, no cracks, no problem.

However, it is of no value, aesthetically and geometrically. I'd be after me cash back.

Nice. That's a Holdsworth Avanti frame. Quite light for 501.

Considered one of those mobile SMART car paint/wheels services?
They could prep, neutralise and blow that all in for a few quid.

Hello.
Raleigh never made 17" frames.
That'll be a 19.5", with 700 wheels.