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I lived in the middle background of that photo when I was a grad student.

That's what I believe, too, but in a certain few cases I hope to be wrong, so the fuckers can stew in their own boiling urine for all eternity.

You haven't lived until you've heard ReggaeRap in Swiss German. It's the greatest risk of listening to the radio stations around here.

I have a mental list of a few to whom I would welcome it more, but they aren't so much for a requiescat in pace thread so much as the RIT thread. RIT = Remain in Torment, obvs.

Hi, I am looking for a set of 5 bolts for a single chainring setup for a Shimano 105 crankset from last century, the idea being to lose the outer chainring as part of converting to single speed. Nothing fancy needed, plain steel bolts are fine.

Looking for some at a reasonable price that can be posted to Zürich.

That's only a very small step from the GBP thread---->

(But that front QR is going to haunt me for days.)

Apparently, yes.

I confess I'm bored of truing wheels that other people have built with no lube on the spoke/nipple interface so every spoke has to be freed by hand after the damn things have had a few years to seize in place. I also confess that I am prone to cursing under my breath.

I've often encountered the "Why do you need so many bikes?" (especially when I used to have many more than the handful I listed earlier in the thread) question in the past. The standard response I would use is "Why do you need so many watches/knives/pipes/handbags/laptops/cameras/enamelled figurines/antique horse brasses/etc?"

The Crud Catcher gave me a nostalgia attack. They must be museum pieces now.

I'm sure that's true. If only I knew what you're trying to say.

So now you see the dangers of generalising! ;D

Riding records never works out well. Do not ask me how I know this.

Just like not all derailleurs are indexed, not all props can be feathered.

There's more shifter than handlebar. Not sure the bars are even necessary anymore, why not just mount the shifters directly to the stem?

(Remember you read it here first when Shimano start doing this in a year or two.)

Thanks for the response, I shall do the switch of the brakes and log the results of the experiment.

The Singlespeed
Road bike (Saracen aluminyum)
Audax bike (Ridgeback aluminyum + carbon fawk)
Trekking bike (Built on 1990s Raleigh MTB frame)
Dawes Galaxy Twin(*)
Brompton M6
Peugot 1980's 531pro frame currently being built into a rat bike.

(*)Should tandems count double?

Thanks again for expanding on your reply. Based on what I'd learned about the bike so far, I had decided to forgo a full restoration and build it up as a rat bike. Possibly not the wisest choice, there was grease in the bearings that must be original, it was the consistency of old Loctite 242 and far harder to clean off. Thank god for cheap and plentiful cleaning alcohol. The freewheel turned out to be an old Regina, and of course I don't have the damn removal tool for that one.

I gave the frame another really good scrubbing as well, and the maker's marks emerged on the dropouts, they are by Simplex. The last Simplex item I owned was the rear mech on my Raleigh 5-speed in the mid 1970s. The BB was indeed English threaded, and also turned out to be cup and cone, another thing I haven't seen for a very long time. I couldn't get the fixed cup out even with my biggest spanner, but it's not going anywhere so no real problem.

Amazingly, despite the state of the lubrication with petrified 1980s grease, the headset, BB, and wheel bearings are all in perfect shape.

Belongs in hipster sleds just as much as anti, if you take the brakes off.

And yeah, I agree it needs more spokes. How many are there right now?

10/10 would ride.

Stupidest question of the week coming. Those of a sensitive nature should look away. When I asked it of myself today I realised it had never come up in my hearing before (also can't see a direct answer via Google, sorry)

So, if I switch the old single pivot brakes on this bike for some dual pivots I have lying around, do I need different levers or is the cable pull the same?

It was posted in jest. I assumed that you had converted development directly into inches.

I was brought up on metric, but I find both metric and imperial easy in terms of feel. EXCEPT for gear ratios, I always need to convert a development into gear inches to visualise how much it will make my knees hurt :D

258 gear inches with that ratio would be a nearly 80" wheel....