http://www.pennyfarthingworldtour.com/Mk5.htm
this bloke seems to have done his homework.
(if you’re still interested)
had a go on a replica smaller one the other day.never ridden fixed gear before,but I got the hang of it in about 5mins.in a carpark tho.

hold out for superthin tiogas,50quid(per pedal,but hey)
got b143 wellgos,seem great,plus come with grease port.

got mine from rose.

‘cos it routed under bb-chainstay,not tt-seatstay.
besides,you can run a rollamajig that way.

problem is if you have to stop,if you’re wet you’ll be miserable pretty quickly.it’s hard to warm up again.so you enter into a cycle of getting colder and it being harder to pedal yourself warm.

unless you’re riding rod brakes.still got some beach bikes with those.
on chromed rims of course.never rains though.

nobody’s said: brake from the drops.

So,my advice is: brake from the drops.though I do resent the road brake slander,even the modolo 1970s stuff on my bianchi is fine.
so stop whining.

aye,the first few xmases solo feel a bit strange,then you forget all the indoctrination,and actually enjoy living your own life.

this always cheers me up.
full movie over at unofficial networks,and free.
I think the parallels with mtb-ing are pretty evident.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396171/
perfume,tykwer.
can’t decide what was worse,the acting or the script.
4/10.
should have remembered lola runs,by tykwer,another film made by stretching a simple idea much too far.
the book was allright.but this was shite.

feel pretty alienated,but I’m healthy,got too many bikes,plenty of time for myself,become a much better person,can build great wheels.
girls smile at me on the street,stopped smoking,can cook.
I’m doing allright,as a person.professionally I’ve squandered it all.

can’t sing tho,can’t even whistle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09q_L1TGEUs&feature=related
only way.

precious.damn fine.and pretty harsh.excellent acting,9/10,at least.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929632/
paula patton is gorgeous,and looks exactly like a girl I used to know…

brilliant ride,usual 7hs,but it all seemed to flow so well.
I think it’s the soil conditions,dry but the cold retains some moisture.
So,there I was,sitting down,contemplating,full facer,pads,at the top of one of the last descents of the day,a man comes up with 3 kids,and the little girl starts reading a poem to the virgin mary-there’s a little shrine on the top of that hill.
on the left,first 20secs.
http://video.mpora.com/watch/hfeipfQx6/

while riding home I pinned it down a longish staircase,in the metro underpass,as I always do.
a young man shouts out ‘nice!’,so I gave him a thumbs up.and manualled away.

first compliment I’ve ever received,bike related,in 13 bloody years.
so it made me think of how little support,or interest,I’ve received from family,girlfriends.so **** them.but the ride was brilliant,best I’ve had in a long time.so brill.going out tomorrow as well,and boxing day.
thanks,random rasta dude.and thanks,little girl with the hairband.

matt,if you read through the thread there’s an mk2 version.
you can cut the teeth off an old chainring,then file it smooth for a cheap bash.half an hour’s work.
and/or lower and lock down the front der.you’ve already got it.
or get a jumpstop.

http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=58086

I’ve got an outer bash ring,and a granny mounted 32t bash,from bbg.
cheap,works well,nothing much to go wrong with it,easy to mount.light.

Read the new finnish grammar,in italian, a few years ago.
It’s got some great moments,and there aren’t that many novels on translators.could have been great,very nearly is.But it’s very good.
just finished sajer’s forgotten soldier,reccomended here.thanks.terrible.should be read by everybody.
then read solaris,by lem.Surprised at how different it was to the film.
Also surprised how much Tarkovsky managed to convey,and so well.
Excellent book.

Dunno what to read next,got a great big pile.tried to start the innocents abroad,by twain.but don’t seem to be in the mood.
reading some heinleim quotes today.

here’s one.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

how kafkaesque would watching a doc on looting,on a looted tv, be?
the mind boggles.

but on a serious note,if society feeds them the success myth,if they’ll tell you anything to sell you anything.if there aren’t any rolemodels,local or national.If the people that do good,and there are plenty,aren’t really rewarded for it,nor are they given much attention.
If all that is successful is good.howeverwhichway you get there.
If all that is profitable is good,if profit is good.If money is good.if power,money are all good.

Pretty hard growing up,much harder when you have to do it by yourself amidst a barrage of misinformation,lies and propaganda.

I read the jimmy reid acceptance speech the other day.How many youths have access to advice like that?
I don’t mean the abstract access,it’s on the net.

I mean the real access,that’s pretty hard.
Anyway,alienation pretty well sums this up as well.

besides,look at the wikip page that lists riots,hardly a new thing.

it’s the social contract breaking down.
Too easy to (just) blame the ones that get caught up in it.For them it already has.

I mean,poor bastards,they get told they need to prove themselves by acquiring/getting/procuring all that is good,yet,mostly,are excluded from the process.
hence the shortcut.semantically they’re not far off.morally,that’s another story.
but the media preaching morals?politicians preaching morals?
come on.

Ladro piccolo non ti far beccare,che il ladro grosso ti fa impiccare.

nice little proverb that.
however,they were pretty stupid to get caught up in it.

Doing a good job of it too.
emanuel.

“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”
Howard Zinn

can’t be bothered to read the thread.did I miss anything?

you can go up on the roof.but I agree.
some good galleries.damn good theatre scene.

but on the road I’d rather have the smallest steps possible.especially for touring.
hence a triple,24or 26-38-46.14-25cassette.
you can go plenty fast on that,juniors do.and good ones are faster than most.
you can climb anything on that.and 24-25 will enable your pannier laden,headwind buffeted bike and you to get anywhere you like at the end of a long day.
hence a triple.
plus I think a slightly wider q factor may be beneficial for women,with their wider hips.
hence a triple.
a road one,mind.
and shimano tiagra comes with shims,or you can get their small hands specific levers.
shame to get 165s you have to go to 105.

nae bother, 😉

Home Built Extreme Fat Tire Bicycle

too lazy to tell you.

aye,but sancho was on the mule,while don Q was on a horse.
like 26″ and 29ers innit.just equine.

the station agent was good.

watched some bmx films today.

up up and away-sunday.nice music,some stuff filmed here in bcn so I can have a look at the spots and mince around.nice music.7.sick riding.

synopsys-micreation.bit mellow/empty.didn’t actually notice any music.5.good riding.

oss football.nice vibe,great music,just positive.7.5.I think that was filmed here in bcn too.but then again,they do all resemble each other a bit.

bmx films have better music than mtb films,to my ears.
plus it’s nice to see the lads happy at getting something right,or throwing hissy fits when they don’t.you don’t really get any of that with full facers.but then again,riding with just a beanie seems mental to me.

appreciates

must be at least 3 good oliver twists.
was the nicole kidman version any good?missed it.

might as well get a fit done,before buying the bike.then you can find a frame that will fit her well.dunno about 650 though.but if you get two sets of wheels,get the normal cheap but good ones first.then the ones I mentioned earlier next year or something,so she appreciated the difference.

aye,looks allright,but if she likes touring it won’t work.
pootle,sportive,shopping,touring.
the thorn can take front and rear racks,has a different fork for the smallest size(can’t use a carbon fork-rake’s different).comes in pink.
is comfortable.fast enough with lighter wheels and stripped down.
takes mudguards with decent sized tyres fitted.
with great tyres and properly light wheels it won’t be much worse than the trek above,but the trek will be much worse in all other situations.
if you can actually use it for those situations.
get a triple,go down to 24 on the inner,38-46 or something similar.shorter cranks.dynohub front everyday touring wheel.
it takes both 130 and 135 wheels.
you can stack it and it’s fine.I have.It’s a nice bike.
Got one and I’d reccomend it.
I’m sure there are others,but the thorn racks are pretty good.and light.
you can get loads of shopping in panniers.

6″ and finesse,or 8″ and plough?most girls I’ve asked say the important thing is to know how ride a bike with technique…

but have there been any films made three times and well?
a few have been done twice and are pretty good.solaris comes to mind.
some shaksp.

or the gboxx.

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Millyard-racing-bike-2007.html
here.
and it folds.f’hell.

the millyard bike had a nexus above the bb.
hub gear with half step up front would make sense.the older alfine tensioner was designed that way I think.

is it just me or the young gent above looks allright dressed like that,dunno about the white socks.
that reminds me,did militant graham get a penny farthing?

just buy an eno hub.build a wheel.two bikes in one.

you probl know them already,but ediciclo publishes some excellent books on Italy.in italian though.