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Hi All,

A good friend of mine is doing a fundraising ride this weekend from Birmingham to Paris in aid of Huntingtons disease. They lost a good friend to it a couple of years ago, and have been working hard ever since to raise awareness and funds.

This is a link to their justgiving page : http://www.justgiving.com/tour-de-blackett2/
and facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tour-De-Blackett-2-Birmingham-to-Paris/203018913044680

I know times are tough and pockets are light, but this great effort for a worthy cause!
I'm planning on riding with them on the Sunday on their way through London via High Wycombe, any forum folk very welcome to come along and join in, there will be a single speeder in the group, so he'll need your good wishes!. Message me for times, the plan is to be on London bridge for midday.

and as always HDFU

Nige aka nebulus

MF was that you handing out stickers at the last stopping point?

Doesn't work with a track pump, which was the original stipulation.

Fair enough, works with my track pump but then it's a bit of a blast from the past with a screw adaptor.

The Silca crack pipe is only £7.95

Halfords special at £1.99 and money spare for a tasty beverage of choice...

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_569617_langId_-1_categoryId_165661

Though the crack pipe does look the business.. ;)

I'm curious. How do you inflate a HED3 with a track pump?

Do you use a special vale to allow you to fix the large head of a track pump on that or what.

I realise this is a numpty question, but I've not owned a tri-spoke before and that hole just looks too small. My only ever experience of riding a disc or tri-spoke was borrowing someone else's for a TT and being blown all over the place.

You need a "crack pipe". First one is a Silca, second is a Hirame which I stumbled upon when searching for Hirame frames, $70 from http://www.benscycle.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4576&zenid=d2556c588ccf1861385021468b98236e WANT!!!

Could use one of those fabric extension things you get on the old cheap frame pumps.

On my HED3 the valve is actually angled out slightly so the attachment on my track pump has more than enough room to fit on the valve.
Will see if I can find a photo...

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2. Dicki
   
3. M.F
   
4. Wicksie
   
5. Skully
   
6. sorethroat
   
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8. wools
   
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27. Sumo
    
28. teddy
    
29. Crumb
    
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31. mc_nebula - with bike sound system
    
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33. Psy
    
34. jcgarcia
    
35. dave4
    
36. Propeller
    
37. velib
    
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Should have my hipster/tri/lo-pro puppy death monstrosity ready by then, put my Hetch back in the shed for the evening.

i don't really class a Hetchins as porn, there were far better frames made then. the lugs are just flamboyant overkill.

Who made better frames back then?

Hobbs made some very nice stuff, but I'm trying to think of anyone of that era who made better...

Flamboyant overkill!!! Pistols at dawn Sir!

eddie dolan never built for look but they still slapped their stickers on bikes he built for chris boardman

Who's the hell is Eddie Dolan? Terry Dolans brother?

I think there was some legal sponsorship wrangling regarding the Boardman frames, if I remember correctly Dolan built them and then Look took the measurements and remade them, due to Boardman having to ride these frames due to Credit Agricoles deal with Look.

The GT/Yamaguchi on the other hand no idea whats going on there...

Cech just wants to look like Wordy:

Was fun, but damn cold!
Forgot to post on here before leaving home, I was pottling round on the light blue Hetchins, someone from the ride said 'Hi' when I was staring catatonic at the departure boards in Waterloo (he had lamp on his helmet anyone here?), sorry was too cold to respond with much more than a nod!

Bednarz, nightmare with the flat!

Great stuff!
So useful!

no one uploaded the the full amount of shit?
http://www.londonfgss.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15701&stc=1&d=1254264415

Wow this thing is on ebay for £4450 buy it now, there is also option of best offer so I submitted a fair bid of £1.50p, its going to cost a bit to 'adjust' the colour scheme.

Looks great pistanator, that was the finish I would like for my GT, but the lure of autosol won out.
Would like to see it in real life, which drinks are you likely to be at with it? I might be tempted to get my lazy self into the city for a change...

Having another beers night on another day, sounds like a great idea, especially for lazy people like me!

Bloody hell! Maybe we should have a Far South Wests beers evening then!

For those of us in the Kingston/Surbiton area who are too busy (or lazy!) to get into the South or Wests Beers...

You live on the Portsmout Rd in Kingston! Do I get a prize?

Impressive stalking skills!

hehe, looking forward to how your bianchi turns out...

Nice Nebulus. Prob a little bit too shiny for what I'm after but still looks spot on

Needs more polishing!
To scare the taxi and bus drivers away!

^ that much wheelbase on that small a frame...

Can't see the pic Nebulus

He's just polishing it all up for an even 'satin(ish)' finish. I'd like to leave it raw metal but may look into trying to get some kind of off the shelf spray lacquer - failing that I'll just probably autosol it now n then. Do't want a clearcoat

Hopefully image and a couple of others fixed now....

I did the same to a Klein frame a little while back wanted the satin finish which I did using fine(ish) sanding blocks, tough to get the grain looking nice on all the tubes though, but I found Autosol just made it a bit too shiny so I bit the bullet and went for mirror finish all over.

Looks great but on an offroad frame its a damn dust and fingerprint magnet still easy to fix after 5mins with some polish, not that I can be bothered to do that after every ride!

The GT polished up much easier, maybe there is some difference in surface finishes between the 7000 and 9000 aluminium used in each frame...

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Ian Wright on the skyride riding a bike with what appeared to be MotoGP tyres on it, very very gangsta

I'm with you on the ahead set and other ugly massively branded components. A nice cinelli quill stem and a nice campag groupset and it would look great.

BTW - has anyone here ridden a Hetchins? - do the stays make it a smother ride?

I've got a straight stayed track Hetchins, and my dad has a curly made within 6 months of each other in 1960 and almost exactly the same size. The curly feels as stiff as mine, but it does feel like there is more give when going over uneven roads, like its slightly suspended, its very subtle though.

The Hetchins you posted is brand new build would look nicer with less logos on the components, though a bit on the expensive side at just under a thousand quid, still its a custom hand built frame. Those curly lugs can't be cheap!

Probably a repost, but a few bits of shiny component-pr0n for my fellow polishing freaks.

http://miniportfolio.com/pages/campagnolo%20pedals.html

Hmmm yum!

and the link.... OH!