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The Bike Shop / Re: Gland 4 installation tips
« on: November 26, 2015, 11:46:37 AM »
Profile do coloured ones but they're pricey.
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The Lounge / Re: Paris
« on: November 25, 2015, 06:59:38 AM »
Looks like Russia is having turkey for Christmas, hey yo!
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The Bike Shop / Re: Gland 4 installation tips
« on: November 24, 2015, 06:19:17 PM »
What about using wire?
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The Lounge / Re: Paris
« on: November 14, 2015, 07:42:28 AM »
They attacked soft targets. What they could get. The bombs were outside the football stadium as the stadium would have been the only place with any real security. But they are all western ways of life really, restraunts, gig, football. Certainly not military targets so surely it's an act of terror and not war? They're also claiming it's in response to the air strikes, didn't jihadi John get reported dead as a result of one in the last few days?
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The Bike Shop / Re: retro sprockets
« on: November 14, 2015, 04:09:20 AM »
The profile one is dope.
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The Bike Shop / Re: Ghost pedalling halp
« on: November 12, 2015, 04:28:39 PM »
was the ratchet discontinued because of the simian or the antigram or another reason?
also is anyone running a simian rear? is it out yet?
in related news i'm still pretty stoked on my antigram
also is anyone running a simian rear? is it out yet?
in related news i'm still pretty stoked on my antigram
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Bike Gallery / Re: Daily Pictures v2
« on: November 12, 2015, 04:08:25 PM »currently riding my primate. lost all my frames. either gave away or lost in shitty deals. my st.martin is getting cleaned up, I'm writing my wedding vows on it since my wife to be bought me that frame when we got back together. I don't want to just ride flatland so I'll ride everything instead. I was hesitant to post because I might be getting a free frame soon.
be dope if you could get a green tire for this
and def still post your bike checks (aswell as vids) as they're different to everybody else's and different is good
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The Lounge / Re: MANDATORY TEST! Members over a certain threshold will be banned immediately.
« on: November 04, 2015, 08:36:47 AM »
16, don't believe the hype.
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The Bike Shop / Re: Remember how a few arm-chair engineers called this out? Well who'd a thunk it..
« on: November 03, 2015, 11:19:02 AM »So tempted to apply for that WTP job.
Live the dream bro!
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Bike Gallery / Re: Fixed gear bikes/ Post your big bikes V2
« on: October 24, 2015, 07:51:41 AM »
this is the third one we've done of these which happen twice a year in october and april. the subtle ones are done as often as possible and at least once a month
here's the start from the ccc race in april earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPknaO0L-g
there's more stuff in the subtle tumblr in my sig
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The Lounge / Re: Come by miserly products no direction
« on: October 14, 2015, 05:55:56 PM »
organising a group buy guise, quote the list and add your name at the bottom, you know how this works
1. Zoidberg
1. Zoidberg
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The Lounge / i did my first level of track accreditation today, i think there's four
« on: October 05, 2015, 06:16:32 AM »
and it was so, so sweet. i highly recommend.
it was at the olympic park which is local to me which looks like this:
and they had plenty of bikes in all sizes:
which were all condor with miche wheels and chain rings that looked like this:
it cost me £32 for the hour session booked in advance and i think ten of that was for the bike. on the day it was £4 for gloves (!) and spds were £5, they had straps too, but they gave you a helmet
so i could be wrong but the dark blue flat is the 'safety,' the pale blue area is the 'coate du something' then you have the black line which is 240m long, the red is 247m long and the blue is 275m long (i think)
as you can imagine, they start you off after a bit of theory on the black, then the red and then the blue, then you swap between them
i rode with six other people who were all roadies who rocked up in their various team's lycra. they all took to it pretty quick and i was definitely the shittest of the group.
at first i was only getting round half of the bend and ending up on the flat again, even going for the high blue one. it's weird when you're on it as it doesn't slant as you think it will, it seemed to me that the bit above the blue line was less steep than the space between the black and the red.
luckily for me the teacher was awesome, saw i was struggling a bit and said i easy had the strength but should keep my eye aimed up towards the right (we went counter clockwise) and readjust it as i went. and that was it, i was rolling. from then on i was going through the white rectangles on the track and also staying on the particular lines all the way round aswell. once i had my eye in it all clicked for me, the other fuckers got it straight off but fair play to them.
at the end the teacher said that you have to be at a certain level before you can look down and not naturally find yourself slipping down the slope. we finished a bit early as it was a good group so he had us do some laps swapping between each other which i was shit at but we all passed.
you get used to the speed you have to go round and get into the pace to keep it going pretty quick, i don't think anyone on here couldn't do it. if you hammer it into the bend however fast you're going it works out quite nicely and you can work out the rhythms of the different coloured lines after a few laps once it all clicks.
this was an hour long and stages 2 and 3 are two hours long and a bit trickier. apparently you have to pass each one to progress and 1 is meant to be easy peasy but i was a bit worried at one point. probably won't be doing the 9am session again but definitely going to do the rest. it is really good fun.
i'm not aiming to do it competitively but the olympic park is on my doorstep so thought i'd give it a try and it would be good to maybe do this after couriering as it would beat the shit out of going to the gym.
it was at the olympic park which is local to me which looks like this:
and they had plenty of bikes in all sizes:
which were all condor with miche wheels and chain rings that looked like this:
it cost me £32 for the hour session booked in advance and i think ten of that was for the bike. on the day it was £4 for gloves (!) and spds were £5, they had straps too, but they gave you a helmet
so i could be wrong but the dark blue flat is the 'safety,' the pale blue area is the 'coate du something' then you have the black line which is 240m long, the red is 247m long and the blue is 275m long (i think)
as you can imagine, they start you off after a bit of theory on the black, then the red and then the blue, then you swap between them
i rode with six other people who were all roadies who rocked up in their various team's lycra. they all took to it pretty quick and i was definitely the shittest of the group.
at first i was only getting round half of the bend and ending up on the flat again, even going for the high blue one. it's weird when you're on it as it doesn't slant as you think it will, it seemed to me that the bit above the blue line was less steep than the space between the black and the red.
luckily for me the teacher was awesome, saw i was struggling a bit and said i easy had the strength but should keep my eye aimed up towards the right (we went counter clockwise) and readjust it as i went. and that was it, i was rolling. from then on i was going through the white rectangles on the track and also staying on the particular lines all the way round aswell. once i had my eye in it all clicked for me, the other fuckers got it straight off but fair play to them.
at the end the teacher said that you have to be at a certain level before you can look down and not naturally find yourself slipping down the slope. we finished a bit early as it was a good group so he had us do some laps swapping between each other which i was shit at but we all passed.
you get used to the speed you have to go round and get into the pace to keep it going pretty quick, i don't think anyone on here couldn't do it. if you hammer it into the bend however fast you're going it works out quite nicely and you can work out the rhythms of the different coloured lines after a few laps once it all clicks.
this was an hour long and stages 2 and 3 are two hours long and a bit trickier. apparently you have to pass each one to progress and 1 is meant to be easy peasy but i was a bit worried at one point. probably won't be doing the 9am session again but definitely going to do the rest. it is really good fun.
i'm not aiming to do it competitively but the olympic park is on my doorstep so thought i'd give it a try and it would be good to maybe do this after couriering as it would beat the shit out of going to the gym.
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The Lounge / Re: Golfer's elbow, ugh.
« on: October 01, 2015, 05:14:31 PM »Which park is it Zoid?
'Better extreme' in barking. I'm one stop away, if you want to come check it you and your boys can stop at mine.
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The Lounge / Re: Golfer's elbow, ugh.
« on: October 01, 2015, 10:26:45 AM »I think I have it. At one point it was so bad that I couldn't ride or lift objects. It got better after a few months. There's still some pain occasionally but mild enough I can ignore it and ride. I haven't seen a doctor because 'mericuh but I've read cortisone injections can help.
So you're saying you just got on with it and over time it decreases in general?
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