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Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I'm looking for a complete bike or project or beater on a budget please, if anyone has anything sitting about underused and unloved.

Ideally something I can convert to single speed in time, but definitely summat that can handle a bit of off road, and a bit of Manchester potholes (which come to pretty much the same thing imho).
About 55cm frame.
Thanks for your time.
Simon

So definitely not in amazing condition but sturdy bike in need of TLC and then it'll ride nicely.
Alex rear wheel.
Mudguards, new-ish seat etc. smooth ride BUT needs new back tyre AND inner tube.
Will take whatever I can get. £25 maybe. The Alex wheel cost about £50.
Pick up only - Streatham.
I'm 5,9, and it fits me fine.

Sold thanks all

Excellent service every time I go in, with knowledgeable and helpful staff, despite being very busy. The only place who could release stuck seatpost. Recommended.

Agree, didn't realise the chain had to be quite so taut, assuming this caused it to lock. Was going too fast around a corner with terrible surfacing and very pumped tyres too; all in all not the best idea. Helmet saved hospital trip. For now.

My crap bike I was using in the meantime got its tyre slashed from the bike locks at the back of Clapham Junction, left from about 11AM-9PM. So er suggest avoiding these, unless it's just me... So if anyone happens to be selling 2nd hand tyre to suit Specialized Crossroads, would be cool.

Came off mine and went flying... back wheel severely bent, looking to get tyres/wheels more suited to London roads, and trying to work out if the chain looped itself as to why the bloody thing locked up. Fun times. Are Alex DAs not recommended, hence not on the list? Thinking thicker (than Rubino Pros) tyres maybe best of both worlds, any thoughts much appreciated.

Ace Evans in Fulham Broadway btw wrenched seatpost out of frame, third place to try after first said blowtorch, second, 'no'.

Fair comments!
Standard cartridge in one deck, Ortofon 'scratching' good one in the other, one deck is black and one is grey, both in good condition you'd expect for this make etc.
Sorry I don't have pics or I'd have posted them up (long dull story, but my sister's brother's boyfriend said he'd look after them when I was up in Edinburgh, and they're still with his parents... yawn... Am now back in London), and it seemed a little dumb grabbing some from google images. Obviously if there is interest I'd get them to my place in south London, and can easily send pics from there of any parts anyone is interested in.
And I paid £300 each, but selling them as a pair would perhaps not get this back... hence 'reasonable offers'... cheers all...

Up for sale are a pair of these great workhorse record decks, fantastic quality, well maintained, and mixer thrown in too. The mixer ain't great though (Numark, and works alright but not certainly not top of the range).

The decks are Mark II if I remember rightly, currently being looked after by a mate. Work as new, as you'd expect. Sad to see them go to be honest, but simply not used. All reasonable offers considered. Pick up from south London.

Also, may be of use.... advice was to keep the chain tensioner well greased, and:

'assuming the allen head hasn't rounded, it will use either 2.5, 3 or 4mm allen headed screws (they've changed over the years the Flyer's been in production).'

Now to get the damn seatpost out. Impossible without losing the paint it seems...

Hi all,

My ignorance may help anyone else out there as clueless as myself... I couldn't work out (even on a bike seemingly this simple) the best way to flip the wheel... Or what the point was of a chain tensioner when you have an adjustable ('track forkend') nut at the axle anyway... also various forums seemed undecided as to whether you needed to undo the tensioner before the nut on the rear axle, or vice versa, to flip the wheel onto fixed.

So... huge thanks to nielsamd:

               Yes the thin tension bolts have tiny allen heads. 

The bolts help to locate the wheel in the sweet (safe) spot where the chain is not loose or too tense and keep it centered down the frameline so you aren't cycling sideways or rubbing the tire on a chainstay.
There should only be ~1/4 inch easy play in the chain, up or down, if you try to move it with your fingers and no natural `sag'.. Ideally that sweet spot for the wheel is in the middle of the dropout slot at the hub bolt.

The tension bolt usefulness sort of depends on your chain length/gear-size combo.
It is quite likely, if not downright desirable, when flipping the wheel that you'll need to loosen them, so that you can shift the wheel forward, to get the chain loose and off the sprocket or chainring.

When I do this I try to count the turns I make with the allen key so that I have an idea how much to move them back to reset to the same tension.

               It shouldn't make a difference which you do first [loosen tension bolt or axle nuts at rear] when loosening. The aim then is to get the chain off the sprocket or chainring. 

The sequence is more important when tightening up again after you re-engage the chain. That's when the position of the tensioners helps you locate the wheel in the sweet spot I mentioned. When you are happy with the wheel position and chain tension (as helped/determined by the tensioner), you can tighten the axle nuts to their final tightness.

Note: there are metric and imperial allen keys floating about so it may be that you have the wrong' set which might be ok with bigger bolts on the bike but may be unworkable with the small tension allen heads. That is my guess there. I think Genesis could have been a bit more practical here but it is what it is. In the70s Campagnolo had decent dropouts with things you could adjust by hand:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2590/...d1cfeb9a8e.jpg
and there is an American company I wrote to thinking I could replace the Genesis bolts with theirs: http://www.paulcomp.com/dropouts.html but it didn't seem at all certain they would fit.

Haha, amazing, good work!

Or any similar size steel frame would be amayyyyyzzzzzing.

In fact, not unlike this

but may be worth flagging here too.

Thanks for reading.

Guide price would be wonderful too if anyone has a moment, did a search on forums as is the sort of thing that I expect is asked a lot...

Hiya presume after all the interest this went? Tata

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Am keen too if everything else falls through..... unlikely now! invisiblecolour AT gmail.com cannot PM yet.

London now, hence fixie plan, but almost seems worth getting the train back up just to pick something up at the wondrous Edinburgh Bike Station. Anyhow will keep on keepin an eye out on Classifieds too. Langster steel or Fuji look interesting too, from the above links. Thanks again.

Ah, fantastic thanks a lot all. Edinburgh Road Cobble Broken Wheel Bike is a very different requirement... promise you that!
Have considered second hand, still am, but there's so much info here, working out what to look for & how ain't easy for a beginner. eg
http://forsale.fixedgearbiking.co.uk/ looked useful but Teman seem to get terrible reviews and the ebay stuff generally isn't second hand anyway... will keep looking... tata!

Is it possible to get any feedback on starter fixies please? More specifically, Scott hybrid in the sale.
Any advice hugely appreciated... looking for London road fast bike. This is probably answered elsewhere but needless to say I searched...

Hi
I'm interested. If it's available still do you have pics please? I'd arrange pick up by FedEx if possible. Am at invisiblecolour AT gmail.com many thanks, Simon. Oh... also... just as it's fast... how tall are you please? This sounds fine for 5ft 9 but I should check...

Just had my chain (NOT a chain used as a lock I hasten to add, the actual chain) stolen from Specialized in Camberwell. Did not expect that. Wheels kicked in before, even would expect a wheel pinched... not the chain. And the frame got irrepairrably bent in the process of its removal... apparently.