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I mean honestly, what is he thinking a) driving such a conspicuous vehicle and b) putting it on Facebook?
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Sold to Toez. Thanks to him, and the forum.
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Evening all.
I used to be an active member here in the late noughties, but then I moved out of London, had kids and got even fatter, so all my cycling now is geared and done very slowly. I still have a couple of fixed bikes, which I just look at.
Sadly I have to admit that I now won’t do another fixed build. Apologies that my first post here in years is a sale, but I thought I’d offer my parts box here first, as most of it was bought here. Those kids mean I don’t have time to dispatch all this stuff separately, so I’m offering it as a job lot for just £75. Yes, there's a frame and fork in here, but it's mostly parts.
Downside is you have to collect it yourself. We’re about 8 miles north of Brighton. Nearest station is Hassocks, although I’d be happy to deliver into Brighton, or meet you at Hassocks station if you’re brave enough to carry all this back to London on the chuffer.
Other downside is that you need to take ALL of it, and by the morning of Saturday 13. I need the space, I am intensely comfortable with a buyer selling on what he doesn’t need for a HUGE profit. There is most of a decent beater here, plus lots left over.
Dibs followed by PM. Paypal in advance to secure. Thanks.
So:
Raleigh ‘lightweight division’ Delta 531 frame, 60cm, decent quality with Gipiemme dropouts but lots of surface rust from storage, most of which will clean up with some elbow grease, would make a decent beater/rat/polo bike, includes 105 headset and newish Shimano BB
Most of a vintage 105 aero blue-grey anodized groupset (late ‘80s? Came off the Delta). Aero levers, no hoods. Biopace chainset, 170mm cranks. Front and rear mechs. Index shifters, braze-on, but missing tensioner and screw on one side. Hubs in one of the wheelsest below. Well-used condition
2x Galli calipers, used but nice condition
1x Acor deep-drop (80mm) calliper, no pads
Alesa 700c wheelset on 105 hubs, cassette with spacer singlespeed adapter, virtually new Shimano 15T cog (tyres are shot)
Cheapo black rim wheelset with Assess 24h hubs, gold flip-flop rear with freewheel fitted, never used (by me, anyway, think I got them new in trade for something else)
Three seatposts, all 27.2, SR Sakae 150mm rails to insertion, Kona black 280mm, Kalloy 300mm
42cm cut-down riser bars (grips NOT included) some surface rust underneath, will polish off
90mm Biba stem
Pretty much new L+R Goldfinger levers, including shims
Bagjack top tube pad
New in packet Champ grips
Pair Lyotard pedals
Selle Italia black Trimatic 2 saddle
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The very best colour-names were offered by US carmakers - especially Chrysler and Ford - on muscle cars of the late sixties/early seventies. Sub Lime, Antiestablish Mint, Good Clean Fawn, Agent Orange, Go Mango, Ultra Violet, Plum Crazy, Top Banana, etc. Google for the full list.
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Brown AND white. But I'm biased.
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Theres an Attitude on sale near me)
Where/how much?
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they don't offer an International Klein Blue
That is the only known example of a post-modernist art joke.
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I'll take the levers with the gum hoods, second dibs on the spds, long seat post and risers
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Tried that, but they're all fugly, and being a ponce I want something that looks nice and that I can have powder-coated the same colour as the frame. Also, I need something with a platform over the wheel and ideally just a couple of stays to support it, whereas pannier mounts have a lot of unnecessary shit around the hub.
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I'm building a new commuter/utility bike and want to mount an old wine case or similar on the front to carry shit. I can't find a nice-looking, sturdy front rack, so any suggestions welcome.
If I can't find one, I'm going to make one. Question is, should it mount it on the forks, so the load has to be turned, or should I make something mad that attaches to the frame? Apart from my gut, I'm not used to carrying a big load out front. All my touring has been done with rear panniers. I know some tourists ride fine with heavy front panniers mounted on the fork, but bikes made to carry real heavy loads (Post Office bikes, shop bikes, etc) have the load fixed to the frame, with the front wheel turning freely underneath.
Anyone ridden with big loads on the front? Which handles better? Or should I just HTFU and stick with the big bag/sweaty back option?
Fatbloke x
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If we don't stop all this there'll be a global cranking crisis.
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@gav - I'm out on Peter's bike - tt too long for my missus - sounds good though, so PM him or something
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A bit OT, I know, but the old lady is taking up triathlons and wants something cheap that we can re-bay if she hates it. Nothing on the 'bay, wondered if anyone here had something suitable in the shed... PM me. Cash waiting!
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Slight dent in top tube.
Buyer will not accept returns for this item.
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In chronological order, this is stuff I've bought with my own money, starting with my savings from my milk and paper rounds and working in a bike shop:
Emmelle Leopard mild steel 10-sp MTB, c.1986
Saracen Tufftrax (nicked)
Saracen Tufftrax (nicked)
Saracen Tufftrax
Prophete mild steel road bike (sold to edscoble on here)
Alpinestars Almega XT
Kona Explosif (nicked)
Kona Cinder Cone (nicked)
Marin Bolinas Ridge (left with ex-fiancee)
Dawes Warwick
1965 Ron Cooper-built Gillott 531 (now fixed)
Giant XTC SE
DeKerf SS MTB (bought off Scott on here)
Chinese Unicycle from Lidl
Raleigh Delta - 80s 531 shitter (now fixed)
Sinclair A-bike
Kona something (borrowed off my brother, then nicked)
Specialized Langster (nicked by my brother in return)
Scott S20 (sold to ElDiablo on here)
Claud Butler Panache 531 light tourer (bought off an 80 year-old dude) -
I love that place. Feels like the ratty-but-fun bike shops I used to work in when I was a kid. They sorted everything I needed for a singlespeed build in a day a while back, including (I think) a same-day wheel rebuild, test-fitting the new BB I'd bought from Condor to check the chainline, and just 'happening' to have some Campag pista chainring bolts in stock. Might have been that andy pancake bloke from here... anyway, it's the only time I've left a tip in a bike shop (apart from the tip of my finger in a Biopace chainring aged fifteen, but that's another story...)
Also like how they have pints on the counter after about 4pm on a Friday. Proper, though I don't know if I'd trust them with the wheel build then...
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Well to me, the concept shows the perfect idea of the car, the prototype is a little more realistic with regards to building the thing, the production is once again watered down to comply with rules and regulations. It's the reason I never really pay attention to concept cars.
The difference between a concept and a prototype is that a concept is done for other people to look at, and a prototype is done for the carmaker's own internal testing and is generally secret.
A concept car will show off a new design direction or some new technology, will appear at all the big motor shows and on the covers of car magazines and will, they hope, generate lots of excitement. A prototype (in the car industry at least) is generally a secret, handbuilt and very expensive early version either of a whole new model or an individual component/system used for testing and development. If it's just a component or system being tested you might not be able to spot that it's a prototype, but if it's a whole new model it will generally be swathed in black bin bags to keep the styling secret. These are the things you see in 'scoop' pictures in car magazines. I've driven lots of them and the reaction you get from other drivers is hilarious - they try to chase you while fumbling for their camera-phones, especially in Italy...
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it's quite easy to make a bicycles into a fully working concept, whether car is an entirely different matter.
look at the Ferrari concept since the 1950, more than half of them have end up in production.
To be honest, there are very few genuine concept cars. The majority are models that have been approved for production, then are given big wheels and a mad feature like gullwing doors and stuck on a motor show stand. When the punters say 'ooh, that's nice' the car company can then say 'hey, because we're such nice guys, we'll put it into production', and miraculously at the next motor show there's a production version, minus all the mad features.
A few car companies do produce 'genuine' concepts - the automotive design equivalent of thinking aloud. The French carmakers have always spent loads on pointless but gorgeous concepts, but don't expect to see many for the next few months.
Ferrari doesn't do its own styling - it's outsourced, most famously to Pininfarina...
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just drop some weight.. cut off an arm or something
...but that would also halve my braking power. You haven't thought it through.
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King Crimson FTW. Did anyone else see this on BBC4 the other night? I'd heard of them, but never heard their stuff before. The ret of their work might be futtocks for all I know, but it's been a long time since I've had such a strong fuck-me-that's-awesome reaction to a piece of music...
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Having ridden London-Brighton at the weekend on an old-but-nice Claud I picked up on the 'bay, I feel the need to seriously upgrade the Weinmann 606 stoppers to cope with 20-plus stone of fatbloke, full panniers and bike going downhill (even if it is 531)...
Any recommendations for a centre-mount caliper with a deep-ish drop and massive stopping power? Drop probably about 55mm - frame is made for 700c but has touring clearances. Shimano BR650 looks good but no idea how it performs. Any tips on the best pads welcome too - not my area of expertise.
Ta.
LFGSS
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^ Genius. Please make that comment on his Facebook page.