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People react to stressful situations in different ways, just because the driver is not running around screaming and crying about what nearly happened does not mean that he is not concerned for the cyclists' well-being. As Dammit said it is feasible that he has been instructed not to offer apologies in a situation like this in case it is taken as an admission of guilt, it is also possible that he is trying to keep himself to himself at the time because he is trying to 'pull himself together'. I don't know I wasn't there and I don't know the driver.

Hope that the lady is not too affected by this experience.

Same goes for you Dammit.

Some drivers must be sociopathic, given the way they drive. I watch the Shard concrete pouring thing, and these huge cement lorries were thundering up and down St Thomas Street one after another. They didn't even slow down as they entered the site; the entrance was only just wide enough for one of these things. Their attitude must be "it's not my fault if you get squashed if you get in my way".

"Clips need to be slightly bigger than you need otherwise the ends of your toes will touch and this will wear your shoes and also become painful after a while."

This only applies if you're using cycling shoes with slotted shoeplates, which I doubt anyone here's using for street riding.

jonny and this one which a friend of mine bought from roberto

Yeah saw this frame as a complete bike at a jumble, so a dealer buys it from the jumble for £300, takes it apart and sell all the parts separately on ebay, then someone buys the frame and is now looking for parts to build it up...

Anyone remember Paolo Garbini?

That Colnago's been in a head-on crash, so it's practically worthless IMHO, but I'm sure someone'll buy it, I think it's some other model not "Master".

"Phil Wood track rear, large flange" on CXP33 36 spokes 3 cross is

left:285.9mm right:284.1mm

"Phil Wood track rear, large flange" as listed on Spocalc is single sided, so for a double sided hub it would be 284mm both sides.

Front track LF is not listed, but should be same as rear right. Sorry not sure what rim is "deep v", also need to know whether large or small flange.

Tell her to cut out the middleman and save £40 and nick a bike herself. I just hope if her flat/room gets burgled, she'll think "thieves are only doing their job so "art students" can buy things they don't want to spend their money on, innit?"

TheBrick(Tommy) dam the riders journal is sold out only 135 gbp
http://www.rapha.cc/index.php?page=205

Haha, that's because they never had any actually for sale in the first place, it was just a publicity gimmick, to get people talking.

Their prices are not based on overheads, manufacturing costs etc, but on niche marketing.

A metal polish like Autosol will do it.

The whole point about Crapha is their price, would anyone give a toss if they weren't expensive?

There was the Vittoria Open Corsa, which was available in black tread and natural (amber) sidewalls, but unfortunately not made anymore, replaced by the Evo version (ugly). I'm not sure if Veloflex still make tyres with black tread and natural sidewalls, but they definitely did. Those tyres are the nearest thing to tubs in clincher form, in fact the casing and tread are the same as their tubs but with beads instead of being sewn up.

Vintage Vittoria tubs


Vittoria Open Corsa

haha, well said!

"...a recent thread it was pointed out that braking surfaces only appeared in the last 10 years or so"

That would be machined braking surfaces, yeah you can use brakes on this rim. And if you fit a ss freewheel or fixed sprocket, you would need to redish the wheel.

Just fill in the holes and paint over. Even with a "standard" top top, to replace it is a major job, it's going to cost hundreds+new paint. That's a werid frame though, a sort of Hetchins Bates lo-pro cross breed, that rear triangle setup's been around long before GT "invented" it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Campagnolo_Super_Record_chainset.jpg

Is this the chainset you've got? "Strada" just means "road" ie a double chainset, it's actually a Super Record, Nuovo Record had the same cranks but had different rings (to make even more confusing, earlier they were just called "Record"). The BB for it is 114mm, the track version of the Super Record/Nuovo Record BB was 109mm. If you fit the road cranks onto the track BB, the inner shoulder where the inner ring sits on will hit the chainstay, if you're only ever going to use it as a single ring chainset, you can file them off.
You can check if the tapers match by putting the crank onto the axle by hand and see how much the crank taper goes onto the axle. If it goes on about halfway or less, it's prob a JIS BB.

Need to sort out if forks are included or not in the weights, otherwise the weight could be wrong by 500-800g.

Reynolds 753 steel frame (52cm): 1,760g, forks: 620g
This is from my 20 year old frame, yeah I know 753's not available anymore but I think it's useful to include it as a comparison.

This is what you need:
http://www.performance-felco.co.uk/felco-c7-cable-cutter-68-p.asp Also sold under different brands, mine were sold as "Record".

Better than anything you can get from a bike shop.

That ebay BB is in fact a road BB, "68 ss" means 68mm shell, therefore Brit threads,and strada, it should be 114mm, loads of ebay sellers say their stuff is "track" "pista" but it ain't so.

I've got a few campag 68-120-P BBs including a NOS ti SR and a NOS NR, but they're not for sale!

This is all nonsense! Unless the rim is actually designed not to be with used with rim brakes, it doesn't matter whether the sidewalls are machined or not. If you use rim brakes on a rim with non-silver anodised sidewalls, the coloured anodising on the sidewallls will wear away, it's normal.
As already said, machined rims are a relatively recent thing.

BLB's really getting a bad name, isn't there someone here who works for them?

My favourite is 46x18, maybe I'm slow.

yeah, at least you can easily fit mudguards to it.

assuming its got horizontal ends and a freewheel hub (not cassette), the cheapest way is: take the freewheel off and fit fixed sprocket, respace and redish rear wheel to get a good chainline, cost: under a tenner, free if you can blag a sprocket. But don't do it this way if you want to take the rear brake off or do loads of leg braking and skidstops.

wot, you mean he'll do you a special price (ie pre-rebranding/makeover) if he knows you're a "real" cyclist?