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Just having a cyclocross thing at the moment:
Loving the look of this

Wanted one too, sold out in normal sizes (56cm) til February. Great bike mind.

^^ Most of the stuff in that video's ridiculous especially the chainless/brakeless fuf, some big street stuff in there too.

Van Homans Stay Fit Part, enders nuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtC7W1fVmXY

Bicycle Workshop, All Saints Road stock Sapim. Not CX Rays though they'll special order them for you.

Old_Blue_Eddy. Most of the handbuilt wheels used in Paris Roubaix use CX Rays, they're lighter and stronger (failure tested to 3.5 million revolutions) than any other spoke I've come across.

Rolling down Highgate Hill this morning after an hour of hill repeats watching the rising sun set London ablaze, good way to start the day...

shorts: assos
jerseys: rapha
baselayers: rapha
gilet: assos
knee warmers : rapha
armwarmers: rapha or assos if you want thinner more stretchy ones
caps: rapha
jackets: rapha (lightweight windproof)
gloves: neither giro pittards leather ones

++ Don't get on with the Rapha armwarmers as I have spaghetti arms and they fall down. Also the wide chamois on Assos F1 Uno shorts can chafe the insides of your legs without judicious use of chamois cream (they're still better shorts than the Rapha ones...IMO)

Two old, one new

I never thought I'd says this but Condor's (I think) Paris is wonderful, look at the rear bridge!;

That fork crown's Pegoretti.

Anything made by Dario Pegoretti that hasn't got a paint scheme that looks like dogs vomit = porn.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E3ZAGtT3e9g/SrvbhHLJ1_I/AAAAAAAAAIM/lESuUmATAr4/s1600/P1070697.JPG

i dont think i can bring myself to watch that. im scared theres gonna be too many tuck no handers down stairs

Some photos not featuring tucks for you. (granted there were a few)

A short video from the Carhartt/Dub/BFF jam on Saturday. It's missing a lot including Niki Croft proving he's the hardest man alive, Brad Simms hopping over the big rail at Southbank into the bank, Lacey doing tooth grind 180 out on the ledge next to the 7 and loads of other stuff. Good day...

http://rideukbmx.com/news/jammin-dubcarhartt-street-jam-video.html

I'm not generally the biggest fan of carbon bikes but if you're going to do it...

Never had Phil Wood Hubs but I've got a pair of Royce Hubs on my road bike. I've had some problems with the front hub and had to loctite the bearings in as the tolerances were a bit out, (Cliffs recommendation...) it's all good now but for that kind of money I expected perfection and would have sent it back if I'd not made it up into a wheel...

Rear hub's amazing though and it's good to have something on my bike that's made in the U.K.

Can't say I'm a fan of SRAM, rear shifts under pressure make an alarming clank like a cricket ball hitting a aluminium bat. The graphics are horrible too.

10spd Campag was more than good enough, it's covered far more articulately on the washingmachinepost but I resent the lack of compatibility between 10 and 11spd. Groupsets as systems, bollocks...

That was an impressive gap, but those guys ain't got shit on the metal bikes crew when it comes to stupidly big and crazy gaps.

Sacrilege... Van Homans section (who's on the Orchid trip) in Criminal Mischief is a better, gnarlier video part than Sean Burns in Dead Bang. Even more nuts when you consider it was filmed in 2000.

http://blip.tv/file/1393704?filename=DerekAdams-VanHomanCriminalMischief373.mov

It's going to progress much, much, quicker than BMX I think because people are mainly trying BMX moves (from what I've seen) hence there's no need for thinking or innovation. Just pick a trick and see if it can be done. I'm only seeing street though, where's the park and trails?

Trails would be hilarious, et-a-rama...

Haha, Gem i'm not dissing bmx here, or trying to belittle just how amazing that gap/wallride is, I love Ruben and everything he's done, the man has some of the biggest balls in bmx, but like you said, look at how long it took for bmx to get to this point, mostly my post was taking the piss out of the gyroscopic crap that DFP talked about in his post!
Sure enough fixed freestyle isn't at this kinda point yet, but there is some gnarly shit and some good sized gaps/wallrides going down, someone got the first handrail on a fixed on video the other week, this sub-division of fixed riding has only been going for a couple of years now, things can only move forward from here.

I think that's my problem with fixed freestyle James, when Hoffman first slid a handrail on a bike it was something genuinely new. That video of a pedal pick down a rail on a fixed is certainly impressive and whilst it's pushing fixed forward it isn't pushing bike riding forward in the way that a lot of fixed devotees claim.

Having said all this if people are having fun on a bike of any kind then that's amazing but there's a limit to what fixed can lay claim to. (including the wallride that started this thread...) Yes I am a miserable, old, shit BMXer/roadie...

There is no way in the world this could be done on a fixed bike, absolutely no way. I'd pay good money to see someone try though. I can imagine them sprinting towards the bank looking like a hamster in a wheel being buggered before missing the back wall and landing in the security guards lap.

I know Forward is a few years old but even for BMX this is still nuts, look how high up he is and how far he travels across the wall FFS. Fixed freestyle certainly isn't short of confidence that's for sure; stick to practicing your rock walks, 360 tyretaps and pull up barspins. You never know in thirty years time you might have something that looks a little bit like BMX today.

He's ploughed a rather singular furrow in the U.K. for years with no proper team to support him which make his achievements significanly more impressive. He's certainly the best bike handler I've ridden with and looks amazing on a bike; flat back, completely still upper body even when he's motoring. Shame he's heading back to New Zealand next month, I'll miss having my head kicked in by him...

Merckx, Millar, Eros Poli, De Vlaeminck, Coppi, Sean Yates, (hard bastard...) Johan Museeuw (even with the drugs...)

Of the people I've ridden with Warrick Spence. Classy, classy rider

Pulled second go, the first time his foot blew off the pedal when he came off the rail. Chester Blacksmith is a mad man.

Cheers Ed and Wibble. I'm putting together a modern version of this and the stem's been causing me some issues, just found a pantographed ITM one in black; for some reason I was convinced the original had a polished silver one.

Amazing, anymore info on this please beyond it being a Saronni replica with gold chrome?