I work for the UK’s largest SUStainable TRANSport charity designing and building cycle paths. Does that count?

i’ll be there on the sunday. Got a wedding on the saturday…

what have stools got to do with psi? I’ve only got one and never take it on my bike.

Sorry Anthony, can’t make it this weekend. I was out last night and there were some bits that could be interesting on the day.

Will definitely try and make it to another dig day soon though.

druidh – Member

1/ It has to be Flickr

2/ Only one photo allowed

3/ Make the image clickable so we can see the original

Calm down dear, it’s only an internet forum 😉

my most “interesting”

That’s awesome news andy! Phil told me about your stuff getting nicked on Friday. Was Keeny’s bike out there aswell?

Paddy (ex-PBA)

tax avoidance is perfectly legal. tax evasion is a crime.

book loads of separate tickets. go from manchester to birmingham, then birmingham to cheltenham, cheltenham to bristol, bristol to exeter.

just on bristol to manchester that saved me £45 last week. (£118 open return down to £73). it’s perfectly legit as long as your train stops at those stations. you don’t have to get off or anything.

i’ve seen some flatland bmx’ers do the unicycle thing. even more difficult with a freewheel i reckon.

email sent. i could do with some more beer tokens.

christ knows what he means.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hand-Built-Road-Bike

i should note that i don’t have enough room for more than one (more) bike so it’s either a £50 pile of junk or a shiny road bike…

sounds like an awesome project. I’d love to help out if you need more folk – my email address is patrick.tully@gmail.com

terrahawk – Member

A bit daft, but why not.

why though?

yup, the brace is more square edged like on fox forks. don’t know why you’d want to rebadge it though, unless you’re sponsored in which case you wouldn’t ride a pitch and have lyrics/totems anyway…

it might also remove the rubber from your tires though!

marzocchi should be marz-oc-chi surely, or mar-zoc-chi at least if my gcse in italian hasn’t failed me. two consonants together are said separately in italian.

to all the naysayers who say it wasn’t -20 and 75mph winds, i have inside information that it was. i know one of the production team.

are you taking the p*ss? a thomson stem on a commuter?

Will electrical tape do the job of proper rim tape?

yeah, ordered a co2 inflator now. did use lots of soapy water, but think i’ll use watery soap next time i try!

bah. i tried this exact method on sunday and couldn’t get the tyres to seat at all. 2.35″ kenda bluegroove on on-one reetard rims. did you just use a track pump or did you have a compressor?

Grange Hill, invoking Stovolds 1928 variation

SFB

does that mean I have to drink cheap cider ?

yes. in fact you aren’t allowed to drink anything else. even water.

I understand that it is friday, but that has no relation to my question… 😉

they sent me the wrong tyre this morning. phoned them up and they answered in three rings and now i’ve ordered the correct tyre and am sending the other one back for a refund and they’re going to refund the postage. all seemed fair enough to me, mistakes happen and all that.

me too @tr1ckster

Thats_not_my_name – where can you get the twin six jerseys in the UK? A quick google didn’t throw up any obvious sources.

Mr Agreeable – Member

Straitlines. No bearings to wear out (they use bushings instead)

While i don’t disagree that straitlines might be be the best choice – surely bushings will wear just as quickly, if not quicker, than bearings?

if customers don’t collect bike after a week you should send the bikes to me FOC and i’ll dispose of them appropriately 😉

woffle – Member

one of the bonuses of using Nikon over Canon is that you can use any lens from the 1960’s onwards on pretty much every DSLR except some base models (ie. the D40).

Might well be true, but you’ll not get any focussing/aperture selection function from the camera. All Canon EF mount lenses work with all Canon EOS cameras and are electronic. Think they go back to the mid 80s.

when i was at primary school we had world book day dressing up. I went as the invisible man – wore my mums mac and covered my head in bandages. got on the front page of the local free paper too… this was about 20 years ago mind.

pimpmyride – Member

I ride mostly all mountain with a teeny tiny bit of freeride lol

just out of interest, how did you come to that conclusion? what does it mean?

it is to do with the pump. Think about it, say the neg air chamber is 1 cubic centimetre in volume, you pump that up to 150 psi take pump off. reattach pump with chamber volume 2 cubic centimetres and initial pressure same as atmospheric, pressure from neg air chamber equalizes with that in pump and you’re left with 50 psi overall.

just had to throw away a mavic 217 rim at the weekend, must be 12 years old. the braking surface finally wore out. front one is still going though!

gizzardman – Member

I’ve just checked and i’m losing neg air pressure. I pump it up to 150psi and 5 mins. later it’s at 50 psi. These are going back for an exchange.

Most likely they aren’t leaking air – it’s just the negative air chamber is so small when you attach the pump the air fills the pump space and you get a much lower pressure reading. It’s says that much in the manual as well.

blimey, is that a full on dh town bike? how slack are the head and seat angles!

I’m all about the Staedtler Mars 780c leadholder at the moment. mm oldschool.