pushing it? I think you mean fix-pushing it.

hells jyeah!

where is this beautiful countryside?

My countryside or Phil's? The photo I posted is in Portland, OR, and was taken by Ira Ryan.

Keith, Shamil, check your pm.

man, the bikes on that guy's photostream could be a wet dream of mine.

My countryside is mainly meaning the county of Cheshire, UK - but there are lots of country lanes (narrower single-track/1.5 track paved roads) that are all hedgerow'd/treelined. Cheshire has a lot of dairy farming, so lots of fields full of cows - I grew up in the middle of fields, etc.

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*goes to find old England pictures*

mmmmm.... legs..... Queen Pita chicken shwarma..... legs......

And it's funny jet's bike is getting dissed. He's had it in other threads where people thought the Gumby leg forks were great.

OK I found some... Here's a fairly normal major road (an A road) near Stafford, where I lived before I moved over here:

http://photos-547.ll.facebook.com/ph...14131_6797.jpg

A crossroads on some more main/major country/back roads in Staffordshire:

http://photos-547.ll.facebook.com/ph...14133_7371.jpg

Narrowish road going into a narrower section:

http://photos-547.ll.facebook.com/ph...14136_8275.jpg

And roadworks, aieeee! (Notice the lovely blind bend that the pub on the corner creates :))

http://photos-547.ll.facebook.com/ph...14137_8574.jpg

Phil's. i noticed that the ira ryan stuff is portland based. whenever i see photos portland and read of it's overflowing bike culture i always get that "land of chocolate" (from the simpsons) song in my head and start dreaming of the land of bikes.

beautiful. throw in a little dirt track and you have yourself a nice rivendellish / cyclocross ride.

so in my attempts to clean up a my bike stash before moving i ended up procuring another frame! i have to get rid of stuff now. anyone interested in giving a 90% completed SS MTB a good home?

3 posts in a row! paging mr. halen....

size?

That's for damn sure. Probably one of my fav custom builders along with Circle-A. Ira made the bikes for the Rapha Continental team: http://www.rapha.cc/continental/index.php?page=270

i believe it's a 17"

If no one else wants it I`ll grab it for my wife and keep her bike as my backup frame for the fixed gear. 17" would be abetter fit for her.

yeah sure - it's a full on XC MTB though, suspension and all. might not be ideal as a commuter but could be good depending on how you build it up.

Too small for me (thankfully, I don't think I could fit another bike in my life).

Speaking of having too many bikes, I rolled by a dumpster yesterday and found a nice 700c front wheel (skewer and everything) and a very new looking KHS mountain bike frame that has a cracked derailleur hanger. I am going to see if my bro-in-law wants it and, if not, if anyone here can use it, let me know. I'd say it is for a bigger guy, maybe about 6 feet and up, I don't have the frame with me right now so I cannot measure it.

hey - check your PM pleasethanks re: a post from last friday.

This my second time typing this because I accidentally closed the box. bout to go postal.

Title: Do not ride listening to 'And you will know us by the trail of dead' (or) Button your pockets jackazz.

I was having a wonderful day. Got a tonne of work done and removed ring and cog from 105 hub using the rotafix method http://204.73.203.34/fisso/eng/schpignone.htm (thanks pyzer) That was awesome - I felt like Keith with all the tricks.

I decided to cruise over to Cycle solutions to pick up a utility/cruiser kronan from John. I was so stoked. I took my camera to show him pics of the new frame I recently got and he said that it might have once been owned by Canada's own Curt Harnett! Awesome. I was on cloud 9 riding out of there on my new 2nd hand cruiser blasting back to UofT Carlaw-Dundas-Broadview-Bloor rocking to my headphones FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, making the devil strips my bia ch. I got to the school and realised that my Canon Powershot had worked its way out of my jacket pocket due to the new riding style and subsequently hit the ground somewhere enroute. If I wasn't happily rocking out I would have heard it! So please keep an eye out for a canon powershot sd750 with some seriously random photos on it.

The weirdest thing about this is when I was walking to the subway, I came across a polaroid on the sidewalk of some dudes dong and I threw it in the garbage so some little kid wouldn't find it coming home from school. What the f does that mean? old media lost, new media lost...

Too many highs and lows in one day.

that sucks Nerdsgirth.

Darn, if I hadn't been wearing headphones, I'm sure i would have noticed that dropping out of my pocket...

lol

On the way to DSR dirt. Hopefully the fat fairy will stay away this time.

Cam, fer real dude you need to worry about the fat fairy, like I need a hole drilled in my skull. Have fun tonight, y'all.

say, where's a good place to pick-up a decent (preferably used/cheap) fixie?

Want to see if it's all everybody say it is...

omg dont say fixie :)

I would say build your own. However easier routes include referring to craigslist and checking the LBSes, I think a number of shops stock factory fixed gears, and as far as I know most will convert a bike for you as well, you can poke around and find something solid for nearly every price range.

How many were at DSR today, four? I think I happened to be sparking a bowl across the river when you rolled by near pottery road.

How much am I looking at to convert an old 1980s road bike to a FG?

i did that! :D

you can do it for the price of a cheap wheel with a fixed hub, and a cog and lockring. if youre lucky you can get a decent chain line on it. my guess would be aboot 120 bucks max for that? but thats assuming you dont care for matching wheels, or foot retention, etc.etc. It can get expensive fast.

sometimes a fixed rear wheel will come up on craigslist, i saw one just a little while ago fully assembled with a 15t cog and lockring included for 100 bucks.

(i recommend converting, i did it and i love the result)

If you have a bike and just want to try it out, I have a spare fixed wheel you can borrow. The hub is a little rough but it should be fine for just trying it out. I'm planning on rebuilding the wheel with a new hub in a few weeks anyway.