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Bit of vintage pedal porn, well it was when I was 13 anyway. Seem to remember them costing around £200 in the early 80's !

I had a chain snap once using a pair of Odyssey Shark Bites, chewed right through the neoprene strapping on my shin guards and still managed to bite my calf! God knows what those beartraps would do to a unguarded shin.

Took delivery in the post today. put'em on and took them for a spin this evening. Feel great, look tidy too.
Nice

alas more work! I shit you not. This job is beginning to suck way too much for my liking.

As I work in deepest darkest Romford i've had issues getting about to see you for a pickup. result being I've paypal'd you the cash for postage, hope thats OK.

Small red baby Falcon BMX: (my first bike... I was 3, the addiction starts here)
full size BMX: (black and silver... respray never new the name)
Raleigh Burner:
Falcon Colorado: dog of a steel frame with crap clearances, stupidly slack head-tube angle and a suntour groupset but got me into MTB's seriously
Kona Kilauea: first real bike, had a front end so twitchy it almost killed me on some Malvern singletrack
Orange Clockwork: Pace forks, alas not suspension, nice little XC frames these
Rock Lobster: forget the frame but massive fun, my first dual slalom setup
GT Zaskar x 3: killed 2 frames, snapped the head-tube off the first with a pair of Judy tripple-tree DH forks and snapped the weld on the seat stays on the second, GT replaced both the failed frames for free, which was nice of them :D
Second Orange Clockwork: budget build from spares in my garage, second hand frame this time with a pair of project 2 forks, got stolen outside DeMontford uni. got a payout on insurace much larger I spent on building it
Specialized Rockhopper A1FS Comp: was my courier bike for a year. London killed the suspension forks, still in bits in my parents garage
Specialized 415 BMX: heavy as all fuck but fun little knockabout
My no-name fixie/singlespeed conversion

to free up a spare hand from the screwdriver method above try this.

1. Remove the bolt from the bar clamp of your stem
   
2. Insert a 1p coin into the slot in the clamp ensuring it does not overlap with where the bars will go
   
3. inset the bolt from the other (threaded side) and tighten against the 1p coin gently. This should open the clamp up and keep it open for you to slide through the bars. Be careful not to open the clamp up too much or you can damage it.
   
4. Once the bars are in remove the bolt and 1p and the insert the bolt into the clamp the normal side and tighten away to your hearts content.
   
   

This method does not work for all stems as you need to be able to access both sides for the bar clamp. Those it does work for though, it has the advantage of not scratching any paintwork or even worse denting the stem as twisting screwdrivers has been known to do.

Hope it works for you

Easy enough.

I saw some nobber in a full set of that burton gear in the alps earlier this year, jacket, trousers, the works. Twunt even had a matching design on his board.
Epic snowboard fail

Yo Eddy Fat Chance haha man I lusted after one of those back in the day, dig the epic syncros post as well

E-stays were invented to stop problems with the dreaded chainsuck. Basically old cross country frames had issues with early mtb rear derailleurs being all floppy and horrible. When you hit a bump it was not unknown for the bottom of your chain to get dragged up between the small chainring in the front and the chainstay (where it bent in to meet the BB shell). The clearances were such back then that it could really mash up your chainstay and kill a frame.

With E-stays instead of mucking around with clearances, the designers just lifted the whole chainstay out of the way and thus no chainsuck destroying frames. The design never really caught on as rear mechs got better as did frame design in general so the compromises in increased weight (and as has already been pointed out) the decreased frame strength were no longer needed.

Still it look fly as all fuck at the time and I would have loved one.

1. Rod Munch
   
2. JonoMarshall
   
3. aufbruch
   
4. Buddha Fingaz
   
5. Dracula
   
6. porter7474 (pm'd earlier)
   
7. Vinylvillain
   
8. AdamM
   
9. Timmy2wheels
   
10. BleakReference
    11.Casp
    
11. The_BMX-KId
    
12. Sol
    
13. oval (2 pairs, and far, far away from London)
    
14. Befixed (PM written)
    
15. philosovril, needs postage or a friend could pick them up at EHBPC if possible
    
16. Loop
    
17. Marc_77 (Newcastle, PM sent)
    
18. Sammy - Pick up from wherever in London - sorry dude!
    
19. nikuls
    21.Stein(need postage, pm coming)
    
20. Edmundro - can have cash money ready in about a week or two. Army green a possibility?
    
21. MonkeyDXIII
    
22. can_i_have_a_p_please_bob
    
23. overandout
    
24. jv
    27.hmmbutterscotch
    
25. Wannabe
    
26. nikT (possibly 3 pairs and not close to london at all)
    
27. Velonoir (I PMed you about this a day or so ago)
    
28. Ricky2Slicky
    
29. ctznsmith
    
30. Davey Mayhem (requested a bit ago)
    

Rocky Mountain San Andreas:

more than i can say:

May contain traces of win

Put me down for a set please

component fail

If you are building your first fixed, personally I wouldn't be looking to economise on the brakes. Actually I wouldn't economise on the brakes at all, but thats just me.

And yeah I know there are a lot of skidders out there, but thats a learning phase not for beginners at this.

Hehe sorry to clarify this is my first fixy, not my first build however I know squat all about calipers as I've run V-brakes on both my bmx's and mtbs for a long time now. If there is any carry over from V's or the ancient Shimano DX canti's I ran all those years ago then half of the effectiveness of brakes is down to setup ie pads, toe-in, cable setup/routing etc.
Ive seen some dia-techs BRS101's are these pony or worth it? I'll have a look at the tektro's cheers for the headsup

Hi guys in the process of building my first fixed/singlespeed and I'm in the need of a pair of brakes. As this is my first foray into this style of bikes (read noob) I don't wont to drop a mint on these as I can always upgrade later as and when i buy a better frame and build off that. The frame/forks I've got require a 57mm reach which means no 105's for me alas. Whilst I do believe in function before form I'd quite like them in black if possible, anyone got any ideas as i don't really want to spend more than £35.

I don't want to wait too long as the build is coming together and I'm itching get out on it as soon as possible.

Anyone got any advice on what I should be looking for and where.

This kinda info is super useful. cheers for all the collation people

Last_Caress gave me abuse till I got me a fixy
Used to see other couriers riding them back when I was on the circuit ages ago

Hi peoples.
So my friends have finally got me into the world of fixys and single speeds. I've come from a background of MTB's and BMXing and up to now have resisted the urge to rid myself of my precious gears.
I've bought an old conversion from a mate which is currently sat in a sheet having been stripped down to parts so I can clean the bearings etc and rebuild into something to hack around town on. I'm hoping that this means that I will be out and about by this weekend if not next so I guess I'll see you all bout then.