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Must miss you by literally seconds - I'm on a black steamroller. I bet it's satisfying witnessing the deluge of dreary tube-goers each morning!

My road! Wasn't me though :(

£25?

Saw someone on lower Richmond road in sheen on a cinelli mash histogram at around 9.30 this morning. Kindly pointed out a few potholes for us :)

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Surly steamroller fork. cut to 25cm. has had daily use since March, but doesn't have any dings/chips - just standard scuffs.

£35 OBO + postage or pickup in SW

A prick in landrover managed send me flying recently on lower richmond road by deciding not to indicate. It's these yummy mummies/daddies rushing their kids to the Hurlingham school that'll kill ya...

back from lbs. Unbelievably did everything (cut the fork, installed new star-nut, transfered crown race and rebuilt) for £17!

apologies for wank quality

A few alterations have been made in the past few weeks - enough to warrant a little post imo. All the planet-x logos and flecks of silver everywhere had kinda bugged me from the beginning, which was quickly dealt with using a rattle can and a HHS approved seatcollar (courtesy of @UTVACW). I also went a bit weenie and got some Deda carbons forks.

Ribble had 10% off everything, and £65 for a half kilo would clearly have been foolish to turn down. (they also happen to be the only carbon 1/8" forks I've found that look any good/are skinny + are < £100).

Added bonus (worrying anomaly?) - they came in 70g less than advertised!

dibssss pedals

Dibs Thomson clamp

Third dibs pedals

Current guise

near east putney station

So the chainring dilemma has been solved pretty quickly. Again by virtue of aimless eBay browsing, I found what I was looking for. Someone was offering a brand new black 48t Truativ chainring for £25, which is pretty well under retail as far as I know, and similar to the price of the cheaper ones mentioned earlier so I pulled the trigger.

Given that omniums have such a good rep, I figured they probably come with pretty decent chainrings?

(Inb4 mixing sugino and sram blah blah blah)

Aarn / factory 5 look tacky to me although seem to be good chainrings.

Yeah, I'm not so keen on the factory 5 lattices but I can't help but think the aarn ones look pretty nice...

Yeah I had a look at those. The current setup looks abit rubbish with the anodized ring/silver teeth (which the Gebhardt track rings have), so I think they're a no go.

logical purchases <<<

Nothing huge here, but a shiny new bit has arrived. It soon became obvious that the Ambrosio cranks didn't have the roundest ring, and had really bad tight/loose spots. The chainline was also more than a few mm out. I thought if I was going to get a new bottom bracket to fix the chainline, I may as well find some NJS wankery to pair it with, thereby going someway to addressing the roundness issue and gaining multiple cool points.

I found some used SG75s on ebay and managed to get em for a fairly reasonable price.

They were visibly used, but a little de-greaser had them looking pretty good imo

Any advice one chain rings would be good. Currently I'm debating whether I should go for a cheaper miche/stronglight one or cave to forum expectation and get a Sugino/Aarn/sram one. Are there actually any advantages to the latter other than looking good?

Not really much of an update here, but I finally accepted the inevitable - the surly's gone from SS to fixed. Went down to Condor a few weeks ago and got a 17t cog and tried it out for a few weeks with both brakes still installed. After deciding I'd stick with it I put the rear tyre back on the right way round (having switch to the other side of the hub), lost the rear brake and zip-tied the left lever.

The chainline isn't as great as it was with the freewheel, and I was wondering how safe it would be to use these cog spacers from Velosolo (http://www.velosolo.co.uk/shoptrack.html)? Would I just end up shearing the thread?

nonetheless, still a very fun ride...

Bars gone

Got mine at evans cycles - http://www.evanscycles.com/products/miche/xpress-track-wheelset-ec029342

Yeah likewise, but it's minimum ~£200 inc labour to do it with decent rims. Would definitely recommend these though