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by **adrian** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:41 pm

[quote]my Dad's quite keen to keep trying to relive his youth

by **Andrew G** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:41 pm

[quote="adrian"][quote]my Dad's quite keen to keep trying to relive his youth

by **mrP(Boonen)VT** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:50 pm

[quote]Gentlemen's 18 group

by **Grahame** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:50 pm

Riding a fixed gear is very handy - for when your Mavic factory wheel freehub body siezes solid.

Room in the bunker for one more?

by **Andrew G** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:05 pm

[quote="mrpvt"][quote]Gentlemen's 18 group

by **Andrew G** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:27 pm

Just found this which may be of use, not had a chance to browse yet so don't know what it's like.

[url]http://www.londonfgss.com/categories/[/url]

by **Andrew G** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:31 pm

Don't know if Fuji are any good but this is less than Â£300 and you'd only need to add pedals and a front brake.

[url]http://www.cyclesense.co.uk/products.php?plid=m1b123s294p3520[/url]

by **-Adam-** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:42 am

So i had a little look in Brick Lane Bikes the other day...

And Matt, you were right, i could have parted with another grand (if i had it) just for a fixed wheel bike. Mind you it was an absolute blinder of a frame, some old italian beauty that the owner of the shop had spent the summer touring Italy looking for. They had some seriously nice frames in there, but with serious price tags too, around the Â£500 mark!

As such i am feeling resigned to a factory built machine, brick lane did in fact have a Fuji track bike, but with a slightly higher price tag mind you! It looks ok, steel frame etc, flip flop hub. But its heavier than i thought it would be, and to be honest it looks a bit crap.

So... Any reason not to buy a Specialized Langster? Brick Lane were trying to tell me that they break all the time etc, not suprisingly they don't stock them. Can a Â£400 bike really break that easily? Bearing in mind im going to be doing barely 10miles a day on it...?

by **Matt Robbins** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:23 am

Yeah nice place.....gotta love those PAC bags though!

They are talking rubbish....the langster is just a bog standard aly factory frame...I had one for a bit, nothing wrong with it at all...the wheels will obviously be naff bendy Alex types but just use them till they are tired out and then get some decent ones.

How about this though, similar price but a little more unique:

http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/news/artic ... 14/v/1/sp/

by **-Adam-** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:19 pm

Tony, i guess i would be about 56-58cm, although apparently track bikes are different...

The guy in brick lane bikes reckoned a 53-55 would be more suitable :shock:

So yours might be worth a try...?

Cheers,

Ad

by **-Adam-** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:23 pm

Matt, nice one!

That bike looks pretty cool! Severely tempted...

by **mrP(Boonen)VT** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:36 pm

Got my old bike out of the shed and it is in a bit of a state, :cry:

with rust patches where paint used to be - the environment in my back garden is not too kind to bare metal - and the forks are a replacement after I bent the original ones going into the side of a car at 20mph :roll:

The plastic faded handlebar tape doesn't really work so will change that

Got it together though and went for a quick spin last night - it works, and nothing fell off/came apart.

by **Andrew G** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:23 pm

[quote]with rust patches where paint used to be

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