yes! as elvis says though, money last.

very occasionally the saddle on my biiiiig bouncer comes up if i have to pedal somewhere far. singlespeed and xc bike don't have qr's so always at pedally height.

i think a thomson stove-top expresso maker would just about finish off some folk on here! :D

Timmy Connerford of Rage Against The Machine.

did anyone mention John Squire of Stone Roses?

…and scraping the bottom of the rawk barrel, Fruitbat of Carter the unstoppable sex machine and latterly, Abdoujaparov.

Perhaps you could mention the size issue in your current ad?? Save another mix up

:lol: :lol:

…oh just in case, the 'sulk' in question wasn't particularly about his ever-changing names, it just seemed to be usual forum politix, percieved 'unfair moderation' and arguments etc..

One of the more, errr, vocal members recently left the forum in a sulk (and a whole thread!) asking the mods to delete his account, and then re-registered under a new name a worryingly few days later. You could always try that!

phillips – Member

chucking down with snow at gawton/chipshop this morning, ace!!

…you said the snow was all romantic this morning, and now its just "ace"?!? I feel so cheap!

Tyre clearance (do the chainstays go out a bit before they go back in again?) and 1" lower bb i'd have thought.

i just can't bring myself to get a set of grips to match….

Grrrrrrrr, Saaaaaaaaarah! :D

Wizard's Cuff!

yay sandersons!

[edit] flickr broken for me so no picture :(

A friend of a friend is a dutchman named Wim. He is a builder with a few employees, does anything from front garden walls to roofing and extensions. Calls his company 'Wim'll fix it.' :D

headtube just looks ring-reinforced. On the steel xc ones its straight on the inside and flares out on the outside to have a bit more meat where the cups press in.

Excuse my ignorance buts what's wrong with seatstays above top tube?

Oh and yes mine (soloist) has well tidy welding too. Not the lightest frame on earth but then not really why I bought it.

another vote for 'bumhands'.

'jimjim the human bin' off the old forum was a nice one too.

I also would like to like 'iDave' so long as he isn't a gadget freak with lots of posh apple products.

the wibbly/reverse fade piano and slightly euro vocals say 'france' and specifically 'source/delabel' records to me. Have you tried googling a few lines of the lyrics?

lordy, if i was going to press a ck headset into an indy fab i would consider £35 for my own cyclus headset press a right bargain!

…sounds like the perfect 'first wheel build' to me! :-)

plastic wine cork cut down to size with bolt through it to space the mudguard away from the chainstay bridge.
iirc it was one of Sam Singular's builds I saw that on: looks really neat.

Barry Bethel – Premier Member

You could take them some korange juice…and if they like chewy sweets, try some halalibo

You missed out Mecca Cola. Yes, it is real.

For a fizzy pop its really rather nice too. Available in all friendly French 'quartiers arabes'. No idea if you can get it here, especially not in the cultural desert of Plymouth!

'mr millie' here: if you are 16 stone i really would recommend someone slacking off and re-tensioning the wheels before you ride it. In my book, the front one was just about laced together rather than 'built' and would have lasted about a week under my weight. Sponging-machine from this parish is roughly your dimensions and once destroyed a cheap rear wheel on his box-fresh kona riding up whyte's level. Poor bugger had to walk back down it…
Also the grips spin on the bars, the back mudguard rattles (I drilled a hole and put a bolt through the sliding seatstay bridge mount), the bb is sort of cartridge but sort of cup and cone wierdness, chainrings riveted not bolted on and the saddle is a sofa.

Still, excellent value nevertheless, the rest of the kit is quite servicable, especially the frame and fork, if you pump the tyres all the way up to max pressure (60psi iirc) its fairly quick for a 32 lb-ish bike. Oh and it even comes with a little bottle of touch-up paint. :-)

Cameron and nulab both look like the equivalent of a car supermarket. Except the nhs is the car. If you know what i mean.

Halo do an extra long one too, for just that reason -that will most likely be fine (iirc its abiout 8mm longer than the normal one). I got mine from charliethebikemonger.com

Doing a spot of car roof running and slipping and putting my knee through someone's rear windscreen

Replace busted windscreen with tib and fib and I'm in. :oops:

did crispy b show you wizard's cuff then?

not that its anywhere near your photos. Nah, miiiiiiiiles away! :wink:

usually it says 'blocked' after someone's posts if they've been barred, no?

…Only the 'other' flying scotsman's posts on the canalfighter thread would seem to be unaltered. Perhaps he's banned himself? I did enjoy the 'look at me remove me' thread for the few minutes it lasted earlier. Crikey I'm having a dull day!

if the engine or chassis is of interest to kit car builders you might get a bit for it on ebay.

I got £70 for my ooooold fiesta which had similar problems to richpenny's car -just about made it to the scrappy a mile away from me. Also had £15 of petrol in it. :(

I rmember when scrap metal was cheaper about 10 years ago, having to pay someone £20 to take my dead metro away.

JW – You need to get out more.

…and there's the second funniest thing I've read on here in ages. Wow, two in the same thread!

apparently marzocchi were rather cagey about service guides for the 'layperson'. I remember having to trawl through MTBR last year sometime for links to unofficially hosted pdf's of dealer service guides.

'Generation A' by Douglas Coupland, and some rather less page-turning doorstops for a course at work.

The best way to win a fight is to not be in a fight.

That is honestly the funniest thing I have read on here for ages. George, you are a comedy genius.

no pics but my budget build, mostly from classifieds here was/is:
aznic saber 6" with old fox van r shock £160.
05 Marzocchi 66 rc 170mm £150
old-ish truvativ gigapipe cranks off jump bike.
atomlab wheels about £80 as needed rebuild.
alivio/deore rear mech/cassette/shifter, well cheap.

from CRC/ebay:
new m800 saint brakes £100
new 38t chainring £15
new truvativ boxguide £30
new holzfeller stem £15
new dmr saddle £10
new pig dh pro headset £18

from lovely Dartmoor cycles:
supertacky wetscreams £40
… and a few other bits and bobs lying around.

Sunrise – Blocked

Being a physiotherapist I would say go for the cold option. The purpose of the cold bath is to reduce swelling related to the microtrauma that occurs during the run.
blimey, trained in only 5 months. well done George!

i've got a sanderson soloist which has lockrings outside the bb shell and a biiig spanner to tighten them. Slipped a tiny bit for first three rides (but not to chain-jumping slackness, unlike my old derailleur hanger-mount tensioner) but behaved impeccably since then.
What's really nice is being able to drop the back wheel out easily, and you don't need to move your brake calliper when you take up stretch iun the chain. Also if you are able to notice, i suppose you can choose to adjust the ebb 'up' or 'down' when you take up slack, and thus change bb height.

Also available without guns.

dickie – Member

I bought a DW Flux in December & got a £200+ discount.

There's a great, glowing and encouraging review of the Turner Flux in the last edition of Shred magazine. I just noticed who the reviewer is! :lol:

With Silverfish UK taking over the distribution this year and the bikes suddenly appearing appearing in a whole lot more shops, the Flux was suddenly within my reach.

No sh!t sherlock! Hopefully one of the silverfish peeps who post on here will pop up and say hello later. :-)

…did anyone else notice the zoofighter embargo being enacted just then? :D He's probably got the inside track on all of us and needs to keep it all on the down-low.

…and he said Cantona! Avé!

cornholio, your mrs seems to have been on and changed your multi-word comedy screen name for a rather more 'compact' one. Bah.