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As a non-native English speaker myself on a British forum I don't use foreign words, and I like the cockpit

Why don't people put such pits on their lo-pros and all?
Just a weenie thought: but a smaller frame plus this >>> weenie gains and close to usual fit. Maybe some aeros as well:)
This is now definitely included into any custom frame fantasies!

He has green stripes on his sleeves, it seems.
Such tiny arms would be not UCI, it seems.

Thank you for your suggestions!
My personal favourite for now is the Observer thread, with its gem and pinnacle here: https://lfgss.microcosm.app/api/v1/files/1c0f9bea9caa0a24224abe976f80e4b547ea9728.jpg

Quite some time ago I dented a car. I was only getting into riding anything 700c wheels at the time, particularly fixed, and naturally, I was quite upset (luckily this was all the damage for me). Later I reasoned that the driver was a nature-destroying (to the T)wat.

edit: apart from the obvious disregard for grass the guys in the car were straight nice.

I was expecting a clockwise pedalling option...

On a serious note, this stuff will make for a very irresponsible riding style, with all that attention spread six-ways. Some people can't handle simple geares.

Much appreciated! A few more hours well wasted

It is bloody four a.m. And it's all this thread...
It was rewarding though. But there are a few questions for me going unanswered yet.
First, as a non-native English speaker I am curious about the actual meaning of this pearl:

boundaries of my limitations

Second, is there a memorial feature movie honouring Skirt'luv coming up? Could turn out to be best thing since sliced bread... Anyway, this could be the perfect line for intro, like some off-screen narration:

changing handlebars was how i spent most of my days

(whoever it was all those pages ago — would rep, it has a nice rhythm to it)
Third, I was refernced here from another thread I am greatly enjoying, i.e. the GT dropuots saga. Are there other comparably entertaining threads buried somewhere on the forum?

Sub'd
(Ever happedend in classifieds?))

Folding some thing

There they are, and there are worse, if you click around a bit:
http://www.montaguebikes.com/single-speed-track-drop-out-frameset.html
I appreciate the idea and the fact they have made it a reality, not too gentle on the eye though, particularly when it comes to components and all...

I tried, but your profile info gives only one thread started by you, i.e. this one...

And it's funny that's everyone on the forum is a arse hole

It is a forum, one posts on here. And while non-arseholes silently ignore such ____ threads, arseholes post their slur willingly. Arsehole prevalence is sort of intrinsic to any forum as it is.
If you're lucky, you'll get a word of advice here and there. E.g., where to place such threads.

if it's to show off your bike then that's what the Current Projects thread is for.

(but it's no rocket science to figure it out on one's own, hence all the mockery and slur)))
Personally liked the unicorn bit.

You know, there are people prone to latent suicide ( to give some blunt examples, alcoholics or those who, on a more refined note, excell at an activity but give it up just before a breakthough success, like ruin their booming business or something. Reckless riding could fit here for some)... Anyway, where was I, latent (or prolonged or passive or whatever) suicide — this structure 'stead of dropouts plus the renowned 'suicide' wheel... Never mind, just saying.

This is all tounge in cheek, of course. I've been following the build with great interest. Arguably there were more reliable and elegant ways to do the same, but if you brush up on cosmetic side of things the whole affair will turn out just fine, it seems. As long as it makes you feel good and is structurally sound — who cares, it feels good.

Spotted on the internet, not quite by the rules,
but the locking technique is ace. Two tubes engaged.

Could anybody comment on the safety of these?
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/full-carbon-fiber-bicycle-highway-tt-horn-thighed-Freeshipping/32328200087.html?spm=2114.30010108.4.53.lEZso8
My friend, who is quite a heftier lad than I am, have been riding some similar or (if memory doesn't fail me) exactly these Chinese carbon handlebars for a few months with no issues. Several months is a bit short for decent crash feedback it seems, but on the other hand I'm positive he enjoys the same bumpy roads in our city, plus he's a more aggressive rider.
I am well under 75 kilos (forgive the metric) and open to any suggestions as for other orient vendors. I just need cheapo-weenie 31.8 bullhorns...

Wow, thanks, seems it couldn't have been more exhaustive
and simple, sort of stuff that leaves you with that feeling of not seeing past the nose
Thanks!

The forks are indeed Minimal, not Tusk -- the choice mostly determined by 1" steerer.
I just Wiggled it after all, although I initially thought I'd go with something aluminum from e-bay, but as the winter went by there still were no reasonable/affordable options. In carbon section either.
Maybe the lack of stuff was aggravated by the fact that I live in Russia, to answer the other question, and prices for used forks on e-bay plus shipping were same or usually higher than what I paid to Wiggle in the end.

It is not that wicked, actually, but true, in the half of the city up on the hill you hardly ever get a flat section, it's either a perpetual few grad gradient or a steeper one or some really sharp climbs one can barely ride up. Of course, as seen in the photo, the descends to bridges is the pinnacle of that all. The other half of the city is quite flat, by the way, but not very popular being made up of residential areas and industrial clusters.

And by the by, why do people use "forks" in plural? Is there any particular etymology behind that?

Here's my current project, or rather the bike I have been upgrading (and riding, for that matter) for over two years now. I'd pigeonhole it as recreational/commuter fixed.

I am sorry for all the crappy pictures that I had to dig up from all over my pc and the internet to post the bike here. These two years ago I didn't even know of LFGSS at all.
Some friend of mine bought the frame in a fit of fashion-and-NJS appreciation, but it was way too small for him, and after a year of lying with other rubble under his bed it found me. I understood sh-te about the stuff at the time and, borrowing half the bits, rigged this up. (With nightmarish and extra flimsy Fuji stock wheels, godbless not mine).

Still, after two previous years of riding a Soviet mass-production water-pipe-grade steel single speed conversion -- this was bliss, even though very uncomfortable (you seen the pic).
I tinkered with it quite a lot, actually, but few of the changes are documented. Here is last year's snap. The frame is a few cm small for me, as well, but within reasonable range, it's just hugely distorted by the perspective in this one.

It's just that this photo shows off the matching cap.

Now comes the blasphemous part.
I got that bee to mount a front brake, mainly because our city is all hills. Besides, it is divided in two by a river. I'll post a photo with the downhill to one of the bridges, where the gradient is the mildest; well, it simply looks somewhat more decent than the others.

After tons of research I dared make up my mind that this would be best for the purposes.

It also meant rearranging the cockpit, plus I recently drummed up nice clip-ins. This white crankset has bothered me since day one, and I am looking into changing it next.

P.S.: haven't bought the brake yet
and no, I don't mind the wallpaper