Mine (now gone) set up as a brake less fixed experiment. Hilarious fun but also quite scary.

hand position on the hoods should be roughly level or angled very slightly up. a bit like this.

It has brakes though.

I’m not going to ride 30km a day through London without a brake. That would be more dangerous than the exploding forks. I have another set of bars for the track.

Mine is normally for the track (herne hill is just over there. points to the west) but needs must when you’ve leant your road bike to your nephew to train with while he’s here on holiday.

I’ll have you know I’m a track bike riding hipster ponce.

I call 30-something liberal arts graduate, now working outside their field of study?

Almost bang on. 39, Furniture design graduate but working in architecture which is just big chairs. So I’m claiming that as at least a similar field.

The collection with the coloured spines (by the rear wheel?) is some of the river cottage handbooks.

I survived the week of danger commuting. New forks arrived today and have been fitted. No ham fisted breakages this time.

Gratuitous new bike bits photo.

Now I have THE FEAR!

I have an old road bike out the back of the office. It’s been out there all winter. I might see if I can resurrect it this evening.

New forks are on their way thankfully.

The thought of getting the train to work means I cycled in again today, so there’s still time.

potential death > sweaty train

I’M ALIVE!

Even got a PR along The Avenue at Clapham Common, but that had more to do with the lights and traffic being kind to me than my massive leg power and lack of respect for my teeth.

New forks ordered!

For now I’ve wedged the bung at the same level as the stem and clamped it all up tight and will ride home slowly while putting as little pressure on the bars as possible.

I’ll update with photos of my injuries later.

Why commute on a track bike with no brakes?

It has brakes (a brake). If I wanted to ride it without brakes I would whack the other track forks on, unfortunately they are not drilled for a brake so they only get used on the velodrome.

I’ve had one. Me in the back of a blacked out Mercedes Vito (or whatever the luxury version of the people carrier/van is called), 2 police bike outriders for the day and the central police control room showing off how they can control all the traffic lights.

It was an odd experience.

Slackalice. Thank you, they look perfect. And luckily there is a chandelry just down the road.

Lesgrandpotato, 18 pages of the Hafle catalogue would suggest it isn’t. Can’t believe I went through them just in case.

Andyl, thanks. Bit more industrial than I was looking for though. Really after something small, plastic, black and neat. If I was to make one out of wood it would be shocking. My ‘making’ skills are somewhat lacking.

This isn’t going to help you very much as it doesn’t meet any of your requirements other than the hipster-esque backpack bit. But, I bought one of these recently. Really good quality. Utterly useless for what you need.
There’s normally some other nice stuff on the Kinoko website though.

Is that an older precursa in your picture or something else?

It’s a track champion (now replaced by the TC1) a bit more racy and stiff as hell.

Precursas will just about take a small cross tyre if you fancy some off road fixed fun. :D

there’s and epic thread on dolans over on LFGSS here

umop3pisdn, that is BADASS!

If I was fast commuting I would get a Dolan precursa. Loaded/gentler commuting with racks it would be a pompino.

I rode this, because i hated my back. Now brakeless with drops and used only on track.

Rhubarb vodka! rhubarb, vodka and sugar. Leave well alone for at least 6 weeks.

Drink it (layered) with advocat for those rhubarb and custard childhood memories. But with added drunkeness.

My house is rendered though.

Rendered with lime or modern sand and cement? I’m at the beginnings the process of getting the sand and cement render removed from mine (London, 1865, solid walled end of terrace) to let it breath and hopefully fix some damp issues. It’s not going to be cheap.

Dairylea triangles. Preferably while slightly drunk and sat on the floor in front of the fridge with a little squirt of salad cream on each freshly unwrapped triangle.

my allotment rat

Ours is this weekend. 90 people heading to Malta for 2 nights.

Sorry people of Malta.

on a work jolly to this

Local files = files you own

Spotify files are only available in spotify.

Download the spotify app on the touch sign in and then download your spotify playlists.

You go want a diagonal on that door though otherwise it will drop.

Is it really likely to drop? It’s a single sheet of OSB. Although that sounds sarcastic it is a serious question.

Marvellous, but I’d recommend getting some locks….

Locks are in but hidden in the joints between the cladding.

As it seems to be shed week on STW I thought I should update my outdoor wardrobe thread now it’s finished.

And for all those who doubted 3 bikes would fit. I YOUR FACES! 18mm to spare on the length and at least 50mm on the width. :D

Cotic BFe. Even on uplift days it stays between 100-120mm travel. Tried it once with 160mm fox 36 forks, it was utterly horrible.

We get away with 3-4 hours a week. Plant some fruit bushes and a couple of fruit trees, they take up a surprising amount of space.

You may want check that you can choose not to take it and wait for the next one. At my site if you are offered a plot and don’t want it you go to the bottom of the list.

It felt slightly wrong taking this photo. Andriy Grivko pissing on a wall in Barnes. I should send it to the daily mail, they can use it to prove how Eastern Europeans hate nice middle class bits of the south east.

With 2 bed flats in Sydenham and West Norwood (until recently not very desireable) now going at £350-400k and even renting such a place c £1200/month, how does someone on median wage of £35k have the spare cash to go out?

Up until recently we spent 5 years paying £1200 p/m rent on a one bed flat on a combined income of considerably less than 2 x £35k. I can confirm that it’s fairly easy to pay rent, save a deposit, run a (shit) car, eat well, party likes its 1999 and fund a bike/girlfriend’s handbag addiction.

We now live in Dulwich (near West Norwood) having paid way, way less than your £350-400k for a lovely little (admittedly one bed) victorian flat with a garden.

It’s not that expensive to live here, it’s just the headline grabbing numbers that look scary.

Unless you’re a couple and both earning 60k plus you’ll be finding it hard to make the most of all the opportunities and the place becomes unattractive.

Absolute twaddle. Even paying high rent/mortgages costs the majority of London’s gets by quite happily on considerably less.

38 and been in London for 14 years. Although I grew up in the sticks, am country boy at heart and from farming stock I doubt I’ll ever leave, at not least while I’m still working. The main benefit of London is the type of work that I get to do which doesn’t happen out there (points at the ‘here be dragons’ bit on the map) and the varied, interesting and talented mix of people I get to work and socialise with.

As with most people who live here, I too make very little use of the tourist facilities or the central shopping bit, venturing up there maybe once or twice a year. The bits around the edges are far more exciting.

I’ll also echo LHS’ comments on Barnes, really lovely place. I lived there for 7 years and if I could afford the £1m+ average house price I’d still be there now. Unfortunately I can’t, so South London it is.

I’m 38 and committed to the Nike cause

My last 3 purchases have been

Black suede Blazers
Grey air max 90 jacquard
And these summery flyknit wonders (lunar chukka)

Next on the list are

Lunar prestos
Air max 1 jacquard
Flyknit racer
Huarache

There’s not another blue I like better

International Klein blue

I’m 2cm taller than you, and even at 94kg people didn’t think of me as fat

I didn’t really carry it well there was just a thick layer of extra Huw with the figure of Michael Rasmussen underneath.

In the past five years I’ve been as high as 85kg and was definitely a fatty and as low as 59kg.

I’m currently 21.7 (176cm x 67.5kg) bang in the middle of healthy, but I have a bit of a tummy and could easily lose a few kgs. As above I look a little POW but 60-63kg feels about right for me, especially on the bike.

My brother is a fully licensed commercial drone operator with a selection of different drones, unfortunately this titbit of information will only be of interest to you if you happen to be in Australia.

Can you put a sign on it saying no bikes kept in wardrobe over night?

actuLOL

The shed will only ever be a deterrent.

It being London the garden is small and overlooked with no direct access from the road. I’m hoping that a trellis on top of a rickety fence with roses growing on it should keep out most opportunists. If they’re so determined to have got that far they’ll then have to contend with a (hopefully) well-made wardrobe, a ground anchor concreted in underneath, an almax chain and some part dismantled bikes. There will likely be a cheap sacrificial bike kept lightly locked in the garden too.

I’m looking at revision 3 now that has a wider single door.

Is that guest accommodation on the mezzanine?

Tools and parts bin accommodation on the mezzanine. Guests can sleep on the gravel outside.

Won’t the shelf prevent you fitting in the detached front wheels?

Front wheels will fit in amongst the bikes. If not they can live under the bed with the hat boxes.

[armchairengineersecurityexpert]how are the doors going to lock, seems like they will lock to each other which seems less secure than against a more solid wall[/armchairengineersecurityexpert]

Left hand door will lock top, bottom and middle with padlocked shoot bolts.