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Start getting the miles in now then you'll be able to pedal up all the hills

I ride a Hutchinson 26x1" (559x25) slick these are seriously slick, no hint of a tread what so ever, Specialised do one too.

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Mick F wrote: I may replace the spokes on my newly acquired 1971 Raleigh Chopper.........

You'll have to when you fit that Rohloff hub . Go on, do it!

However you did it I think it's very clever, congratulations!

I ride a full rigid mountain bike. Yes full suspension or at least a boingy front end might help me go a bit faster but it's soooooo boring. Rigid bikes are that bit more exciting. Suspension will also wear out/break/need some sort of repair more often.

As for retrobike.co.uk I can whole heartedly reccommend it, just watch your wallet, it's very addictive. I have posted links on it to the CTC message board so have no qualms about posting a link to their board here.

This may be of interest.

It seems that Halfords are having a major clear out of odds and sods in store. My local one to where I live and the one near work both have boxes of stuff for between a fiver and a pound. Useful bits like Shimano 7 speed freehubs, bargainous one pound new in box, 7 speed freewheels, three pounds. I picked up a few reasonable tools, park cone spanner and free wheel tool for a pound each. Probably not worth a special visit but maybe worth dropping in if you're passing over the weekend. Packaging on stuff was a bit mashed up but the condition of what was inside was spot on.

I have to stop, get off the bike, turn bike upside down, remove the back wheel, turn it around, replace the back wheel (ensuring correct chain tension), wipe grease from hands, get back on the bike and I'm all set to go. That's assuming I've got the right sized sprocket on the other side of my flip-flop hub. Changing sprockets and/or chainrings adds a whole new level of kerfuffle. Fixed gear, don't you just love it?

I have a pair of Specialized Radiant gloves, thay have a little pocket in the back to put in one of the hand warmer pads.

I have heated handlebar grips on my motorbike - it's easy enough to make your own. I've never thought about it, would it be possible to make a pair powered by a hub dynamo? hmmmm this requires some hours in the shed me thinks!

I use 8 speed on my TT, audax, commuting and mountain bikes for no other reason that it's enough for me. The Brompton has three and fixed gear has one. If I wanted 9, 10 or 11 I'd get it but as I don't I'll not bother.

As for bits becoming obsolete and difficult to get hold of that's not true. You can always get hold of new old stock in most bike shop clearance sales then there's alway ebay and the like or dare I suggest it the ads here!

On the off chance that anyone has any I'm looking for a set of 7 speed Shimano Deore XT thumb shifters and a new Brooks saddle.

Cheers,

Tad

Do it, do it, do it!

Oh please don't become the sort of person that notices that the pinstripe on this that or the other is too thick by 1mm or that the wrong plating has been used on nuts and bolts. Make a super chopper! This was the bike that all the kids hankered after, now build it into the bike that you hanker after! Put the Rohlof hub on it, build a front wheel with a Schmidt dyno hub, braze cantilever bosses to it and please, please, please, please do LEJOG on it for no other reasons than you can and it is a ridiculous and uniquely British thing to do!

Just think how much fun you'll have spending hours making all the bits fit, then work. Think of the smile it'll bring to your face when you ride it and think of how people will smile (or possibly/probably laugh till their sides split) as you pedal past them.

Pompino - nuff said!

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I just thought I'd pass it on. Shimano have recalled all their Shimano/Pro/Saint gloves that are made in Pakistan. It's a freepost address so a great opportunity to renew those old gloves!


http://cycle.shimano-eu.com/publish/con ... call_.html

No, no, no, no, no!

It is us who are to blame entirely for lack of fettling (also furtling) opportunities. If the majority of bike buying public didn't constantly want newer, shinier, more bounce for your ounce, flashier, gadget ridden, hoity toity, wishy washy, namby pamby... Sorry went a bit 'thin blue line' there. If we didn't buy it, or didn't buy into their marketing millions, there wouldn't be a demand so they'd stop making unfettlewithable stuff.

I ride a fix gear (Kwackers they're nothing like riding a geared bike on just one speed, believe me) amongst others not because it's cool, but because I can fix it with a hammer and swearing, hang on, there's hardly anything to break on it. Oh and because they're damned good fun. I'd also love to watch one of Croydon's finest nick it, try to ride off on it before coming a spectacular cropper on the thing. Then again, they wouldn't want to nick it because it is as un flashy as a very, very unflasy thing.

Right, anyone ready to give me a hand down from my soap box?

I've used a pair of Powerplay pedals for a few years now, though they're not the platfrom type on your link. I have no complaints about them at all.