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hey hilary, il take that green and white probike! PMd

Hello,

my friend is going to cycle to Palestine in mid march and she needs a real nice tourer to get her there. the frame needs to be around 55cm seat tube. looking for steel frame, fairly modern- 90s on, 700c wheels. prepared to do work on it, but £200 budget so ideally don't want to get into replacing parts.

Anyone got anything lying around that you want some cash for?

cheers

dibs red carlton road frame! PMd

dibs on carlton stadium.

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any news on the carlton? dibs if its still available...

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Long story, but does any one have a knackered miche primato bb, that i could have a cup from? i only need the non-driveside one - right hand thread.

cheers.

hey, im looking for a really small ladies style(with sloping top tube) road frame to build up up for my friend, about 19" ideally. could spend £30-40 on it. anyone got anything lying around? wouldnt mind paying more for a more complete bike.

thanks

hey taki, its oli from 56a. is that the purple TT u were using last year? u guys should meet at 56a, u both go there but maybe havent seen each other there! haha!

well, if no ones interested, ill probably put this up on ebay in the next few days...

cheers for the tip here, hopefully, are some photos.

I volunteer at a community bicycle workshop at 56a crampton street in elephant and castle. we were donated a Checker Pig frame that the owner didnt know what to do with and none of the volunteers wanted to take it on as a project so i thought i would offer it here. we dont want to set a price, as it will be a lot of work, but if anyone wants to take it on, any money you can offer will go to our workshop.

it has a sealed campag bottom bracket, but the cup has been removed and we dont have a campag remover to take the rest out. it also has the cups from a campag headset but the rest of the headset and forks are missing.

it has holes cut for internal cabling, one of the plastic hole covers is missing.

it also has holes in the down tube for attaching shifters, but the shifter mounts are missing.

it is made from very fine lightweight aluminium 7005 T6 series tubing.

i have photos all ready to go, but cant work out how to put them up, tried insert image but it deleted what i had written. so if anyone can explain, im happy to add photos, or if anyone is interested pm me your email address and il send em over that way.

the frame is now at my workshop in farringdon if anyone wants to come and have a look.

all the best.

dibs on bioflex gel sprint saddle.
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hey, if you live in london you should head to 56a crampton street se17, elephant and castle. it is a DIY bicycle workshop run by volunteer mechanics. i do the friday shift. we have a box full of old wedges you could have in exchange for a donation. its open wednesday-saturday 3-7. bring the bolt and we can find the right wedge!

in terms of my favourite tool, probably my cotter pin remover- a huge copper mallet with THOR stamped on the head in big letters!

talking of truing stands, i have used my fair share of shitty truing stands, including my current (admittedly its the basic one) park tools one. i still find it easier to true in frame with thumb on brake blocks. who knows of a quality wheel truing stand and where i can get it?

I can get hold of those hubs for £175, if anyones interested PM me. you can pick em up from my workshop in farringdon.

get your new cotter pins from these guys-

The London Bicycle Repair Shop
Shop 2-3 Benson House
Hatfields, London, SE1 8DQ

theyve always been able to sort me out when im working with that old stuff.

in my experience the pins are too soft to do all that in out in out. i reckon push em in, wack em in good(i use a copper mallet to minimise damage to the pins), tighten up the nuts and hope for the best.

yeah, and double check the pins are going in from opposite sides!

its vey similar to that. same frame and rims, but this one has blue risers. not bull horns and has crown decals on the steerer tube and top tube, and has blue anodized crank set too. black pedals and a standard race saddle.

my friend has just called me, spotted a blatently stolen bike at the sunday market at new covent garden in vauxhall. beige frame from brick lane cycles, blue anodized deep vs, blue anodized risers black oury grips. for sale NOW for 170, if its yours or you recognise it get down there now 1pm sunday 8/11/09. pm me or call me on 07973429644, my friend will be down there for a little while keeping an eye on it.

good luck!

has anyone had a bike stolen recently- biege brick lane bike with blue anodized deep vs anodised blue risers black oury grips anodized blue crank set. is it yours? it is at the sunday market at new covent garden in vauxhall. pm me, my friend is there and has seen it for sale for 170, clearly stolen.
good luck

I have a battered raleigh road frame, 531 tubing, with a squashed top tube and drive side drop out. planning on taking it down to my local frame builder to play around with. i was thinking of getting him to replace the drop outs with track ones. does anyone have any experience of this? does it work or is it just weird to have a road bike with track drop outs?

i find the alien2 tool covers all my needs. has a 15mm spanner! splits into 2 for chain breaker etc. good for touring, bit excessive for round town. pedros do a good fixed gear multi tool. 15mm spanner, 8,9,10 mm spanner, lock ring 5mm hex key and bottle opener, of course!

bikefix on lambs conduit street off clerkenwell road sell those hubs, they probably have spares

ive heard good old fashioned coca cola round the seat post will unstick pretty much anything. might take the paint job off too though! dangerous stuff. not quite as bad as caustic though, you can keep it indoors at least while it does its job.