oh dear…who posted the velo solo link….i dont even own a single speed or want one but…..so….many…shiny….things….

must resist, must resist… 😯

ok so i need to be on flickr or something like that yes?

ps if it is a 2001 fork any good links to overhaul info…
and any good sources for fork oil…

thanks in advance.

will try and do pics.have never put on here before.is it simple?

any advance on 2001 or can anyone say what year they are def not?

oil in the left leg and spring in the right i belive..

well i was told they were 100mm…….
as i say they have race written on a sticker on the inside of the legs and some world cup stylee coloured flashes..
and judy on the outside of the leg with some black swirly bits benind.
oh and the crown area is red also

rich,
i may join you…

Never mind 330 or 300ml there all going to 275 in the supermarkets! and what happend to 24 bottle crates/boxes?there long gone.then it was 18 and now there all going to 15!! 15 why? if it aint broke dont fix it?
soon youll be going to a party and instead of saying "shall i get a crate of beers" it will be how many crates do we need?
youll soon be walking around carrying more glass than liquid!!!

"we always get woken by the fireworks at midnight."

Its not so much me but the little kids. pi$$es me right off!

maybe i create some fireworks with the missus earlier in the evening 😉

mattress on the floor and bin the sh@te bed.sorted.
you do loose an element of comparison to being on a pump track tho.you know where you dont need to feed in much more bodily movement to make it to the next set of doubles and so on…. 😯

did that come out right? i think someone else may be along soon to sum it up better.

wouldnt have been so bad if it wasnt for the picture….oh dear.mental image… 😯

asbestos, well it was built in the 70's so its almost guarenteed, but its a lot of cost and frankly im not living in there so i say the risk is very low.will avoid sanding it down tho…. 😯

there is the odd bit of water that gets in now and again so if i stop that where poss it would help and ventilate it i guess….

tighter lycra??

bribery?

just a thought.if you are spending a little cash here and there on brakes, disc wheels, fork upgrades and all the odds and ends that then go with that, would it just me worth considering a new bike and selling all your bits etc?
its not always that economical and you are also about to go into spring which is bike sale nirvana!!! 😉

engines are a sod to work on.mechanic friend of mine did a cambelt on one and when the guy picked it up my mate said that essentially he had done it for free as there was no way he could charge for the actual time it had taken and also to "never darken his door with it again"…

ok makes sense they should be shorter, but 5mm?

Does 5mm per crank really matter that much?

ref lining or not lining, speak to a chimmeny sweep.i found that imho there is very little info out there on this subject, but eventually was told "ask a sweep,he will know" our local one came round, swept the chimmeny and from waht comes out he can tell roughly the condition of past fires etc.also can tell you about liners etc.

also as mention what you burn and the conditon its in matters.good seasoned wood may be expensive but usually burns longer and hotter.again our sweep put us in contact with a good local "dealer" 😉
sorted.

do you commute to work along the beach! 😯

off topic but is it right that mixed cd's and a while back,tapes got outlawed (for want of a better word) cos all the artists were not listed and thus couldnt get royaltys, hence nowadays all the mainstream outlets for mixed cds etc all very clearly and nicely list tracks on the sleave? stikes me you cant easily get proper "live" mixed music anymore, its all studio stuff.
sorry for the hijack. 😳

is this inspired from "photos of your wife at work" if you know what i mean… 😉

one of those micro bikes.the really tiny ones.hours of fun, well riding them in the pub last night was…

yaeh im a handle man, im not into knobs… 😯

ok so hopefully its just handles…

inbreds are large for a given frame size….

important poit to note is regarding the child seat.some nice thin stiff butted frame tubes dont take well to having child seats clamped hard around them.the lateral twisting can dent the tubes and i belive i may have seen an actual on one frame with this damage…

so im downing yet another pint of the amber nectar (not quite!)
and hears some more detail.
i washed the fruit thouroghly and used the tablets you add to the juice to kill all bacteria (and natural yeast)
after two-three days, i added the yeast.
after two or three days fermentation was off and running.
after a couple of weeks it slowed and i measured with hydrometer thingy
it was about 4.5-5 % i recon so left it a bit longer.
after couple more weeks, siphoned out the juice, emptied out the muck and sediment,
refilled into demijohns, topped up to the top and left to stand in cool room with airlocks in.
after about a month, there was no sign of any more fermenting and bottled into pint bottles, teaspoon of suger in each and capped them.
tried some at this stage and it was undrinkable-rank!
after 8 mounths i tried some and it was ok but dry and vinegary, but drinkable.
after 12 months it seems much better, more rounded and fizzy.it seems that the strength and quality varys.i labeled the bottles as to what came out of the top of the demijohn, middle and bottom.strangly the top seems more vinegary and from the bottom seems better.i didnt try to keep the bottom stuff as there was more chance of sediment going in, but this pint tonight is one of few from near the bottom and has virtually no odor and it may well be stronger!? 😉

does any one know if cheap Sh@tty forks on taiwanese £99 bikes have springs in there forks? if so im thinking i could cut them apart and affect an "alternative repair" i.e. BODGE!

so could the elastomers be bodge replaced with a spring of the correct size then? i think there are springs on ebay but i thought they were for later judys?

yep there elastomer i think.dot really see how the elastomer gets compressed.ive unscrwed the top adjuster bit on the top of the leg and taken it out.one side is all there the other has one which is a bit crumbly.can you still get them? i maust add i dont want these to work well,ropey to average would be fine but if they dont bounce back then there not really sus forks?!

no kit.just read some web pages on how to do it.cider is as simple as a knife and fork.bitter and beer need a bit more thought.plus i had a glut of apples so why not? oct-nov is cider season tho(cos of the apples) so you may stuggle to get them now.demijohns from boot sale, airlocks from ebay brewwers shop and some proper yeast, sterilising tabs from shop in town.oh and a hydrometer.all in about twenty quid for 10 pints.now great initially but i now have all the stuff to make approx 100pints next year(esentially)

everything was very sterile i thought.certainly no mould etc was ever seen and the cider is gin clear?

if its gonna be left at the station, then surely you want it to be as shit as possible?no? aka who cares,just use anything.matt black ideally?

what about import tax? or is there a way…ahemm "around" that??

tomh…quite simply your mate has a ridiculesly small frame!check out the length of the stem, where did the frame come from?…one of his children?? 😯

hmmm maybe i should be geting back in there pieface..interesting.

ps note the deliberate showing of age faux par by calling them a record shop.almost all HMV staff nowadays are guarenteed not to know what vinyl even looks like…

look into uprating the suspention via a caravan spares shop/website.when you see these cars with a caravan on the back and the bonnet pointing to the hevens thats how to do it wrongly! a caravan is gonna put far more down force onto a tow bar than three/four bikes and yet they can uprate the rear springs etc to compensate.
worth a look i recon…

its a stimulant and speeds up everything in your body inc the bowel.fags do the same and…a'hhm "recreational pharmacuticals" sadly a down side i found i was prone too when clubbing..(try and find a nice quite, clean loo in a rammed night club at 3am…aint happening.)

does this answer my question……. 😯

its all such a joke.two yaers ago i got a ticket from a mobile camera whilst doing 75mph on a deserted motorway (totally deserted)on a sunny day in a brand new van (abs etc)
two weeks later a woman speed cop pulls me on the busy m4.it was late on a dark friday night and i was rushing to get to our b+b.car was fully loaded, all kids, suitcases inside etc etc (stupid, i know).she said id been doing an average of 90mph for the last 5-10 miles. i was really apologetic and she let me off.
which of those two senarios warranted being prosecuted and which one, being let off??
bloody ridiculous.