London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

"focus" puller.

The lord speaketh: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/saddles.html

So that'd be one more than you then?

That's cos the frame's pissed. There was a recall on a batch of Tarmac frames - didn't you see it?

Probably explains how he got it for a knocked down price....


Great video PeterD. Lovely looking roads. Very jealous. Still, I managed 47.3mph downhill this morning on the bike, I bet no one did that ;0)

yep, been experimenting with tilt for a while...brooks need to be tilted up, or you slide forward. been moving it back, forward on the rails, trying to sort it out.

i do feel that i have done the required amount of experimenting, but to no avail. hence my feeling the need to try another saddle.

maybe you have wide sit-bones. like me.

try a b17. they are cheap enough, and always re-sellable.

or a rolls, or a regal..

Nah, It was cheap coz it was cracked..

And yes actually I did do that.. coasting.. I was riding gears remember and I'm a damn sight heavier than you. :P

where, into Whatsthatfuckingplacecalled?

near the end, nice descent that, rough surface but some good speed to be had. I was spinnin like a monkey on a train on july 4th

Watlington?

that's it, i think.

or watlingham

WTF

Gears also this morning. I'm a fanny on fixed going downhill. Ask Brett. Wore down almost half a set of brake pads doing 45-odd miles down to Brighton last weekend. As for the weight we're probably closer than you'd think :0p

Watlington

Great, I can remember the place names but I never know where I am or where I'm going. Real fucking useful.

92kg of pure climbing muscle eh bmmf? :)

not keen on the b17, really. what other saddles are wider?

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetai...0Flow%20Saddle

these bastards are wider...

What about the Whitstable ride?

I want to see the sea before I die

I seem to remember my 63kg descending faster than you on the way to Brighton, and you had gear inches to spare :p

Just got home from the L2B ride today and am a bit knackered, kinda feel like the dinosore "Megasorearse" unlike others I don't normally do 220km in one weekend.
Big ups Jonny for the Spires route and flatness of the ride ;) total pancake man.!!! nice to meet forum folk who I have not yet met, and to see ones I have again. Felt good hooking along at speed with Mertle and was spesh to be in a mini peleton sucking Lebowski's wheel next to Hippy just to see the full carbon geared one get bored with our fast pace, do the road runner'esk beep beep, and cruise off into the distance. Mr Slag Hope you heal soon budy. weather was great Bishops tipple was great, train bitch was not so great but all in all I had a great time.
thanks to all.

Fuckin hell, 2 post and I still haven't said what a legend murtle was up front pulling us along! What is it with this train bitch? Tell us more...What am I doing and me had a woman tell us there was no room on the train for my bike and then when I ignored her told me that I'd hit her leg - the boyfriend whispered 'I'm sorry' as she was clearly pissed. Mini..Cooper what a couple of days! Nice to meet you all.

Yeah but you have revolutions to spare. If my legs got any more frantic I'd be the next 50x14. We both set off the speed camera :)

We had 6 bikes on our train didn't we? We didn't get any shit.
'Course we had the bulk of dogs and bmmf to save wayne and myself from any potential conflict..

haha... that bitch on the train.... I wonder what would happen if I weren't there.... i think you would have swore back at her and have a fight with the boyfriend... and got kick off the train...

nimhbus... have you try getting your sit bone measured? Spesh sell different size saddles...

I have a B17 narrow and it is pretty nice.

I got a special ed. B17 for my soon to arrive steamroller, and am worried it's a little wide.

great ride peeps. suprisingly tough. i've been on the road bike a bit lately 70-100miles and definitely x2 harder.

i'm a very very lucky man, to survive my crash with only a couple bruises and scratches. basically avoided running over greasyslag's head after he dropped it on the corner and into the gravel, but meant doing a superman into the tree's . good spin the last 15 miles, yes, i'll admit i was pushing the pace, but will admit i was hurting as much as the next person.

i won't mention i also beat bmmf up the big hill ;)

I wasn't hurting at all those last 15 miles - I was feathering the front brake the whole way :p

And I wasn't racing up that hill, but fair play to the convicts. As mentioned by Big Daddy Wayne, it would be great if they'd be part of the Rollapaluza team at the next Catford Hillclimb, and put in the fast times, while I just make up the numbers.

bmmf, i think a rollapaluza hill team would be good. mikec is pretty handy! not sure about me though, need to drop some weight.

Saddle adjustment is never over, just watch Merckx in Sunday in Hell tinkering around with it for ages before and even during the race. It looks almost compulsive but especially the pitch angle is very difficult to get right.

yeah, you fat cunt.

remember stompy commenting as we set off to dunwich last year that he thought my saddle was too high. it's not. we all find our own positions and i am busy on the saddle, but when i am walking my hips are busy too. could give birth to quintuplets without breaking sweat.

the harder the saddle the better in my opinion. it's taken me a while to find the one that works best and I love the Selle Italia Storika.

ride enough and your underside HTFUs. mine is now leather like the face of the late Jack Palance.

racing weight was 64-66 kgs, so yeah 70-71ish is heavy

I amazed & relieved you came out unscathed Dogs - I found you 15 foot into the trees without a scratch. you must be part man part squrriel
I was worried any serious damage and i'd have to go back to Gabes to build my wheel ;)

BMMF you are getting some stick on the Hills man, you are going to have to get out with Mike C for those sunday morning North hill rides.

tis all good. i was due a big crash, just happy it wasn't the same on regents st or something busy.

Gutted to have missed this guys - I was a bit sore Sat after Fri's drunken tumble and had a fair bit of stuff to do round the house.

Must've been the best weather yet. Sorry to hear about all the spills and arse troubles. I guess there's quite a difference between a commute and 5+ hours in the saddle (I wish I was doing more of the latter to comment).

Nibles, shame to have missed you. I think I'm gonna +1 on the saddle positioning, I have a swift ti on one bike and fizik arione on another and the latter is deffo more comfortable. However, I only really do long distances on the arione so even then it's prob not a fair comparison...

GS heal up quick. Hope to ride out with you guys soon.

yeah, shame you could make it, mousey -you could have joined in my road-rage mass ped killing spree on the way into oxford, i know you like a bit of that.

you're just saying that as he probably has the matching pink rapha top!!

plus he could've track stood at the intersections.

yeah. he certainly wouldn't have fallen over at the lights like you, eh

but yeah. Team rapha/condor needed some more representation

just like most things in the universe i was being pulled towards hippy's mouth ;)

And bloody hard work it was too. Took me just over 2 hours to complete the 35 mile route. Whoever says London is flat should definitely do this route. Especially the slog up East Heath Road. I'm definitely going to make this a regular (possibly weekly ride). It was a little traffic heavy in some places because I left it late. I can see myself setting off for about 8am in future. When are you be back in the saddle Pip. That is if you aint already?

Sounds like fun. I'll come along if welcome.

Not the kind of thing I'd do once I start my hill training proper, but it's off-season for me at the moment, so up for anything :)

You're not the first person to fall for my rugged good looks.

Cool. Going to try and get something going most weekends depending on other commitments of course.

Get a room.

Rapsac likes a bit of aural oral.

Team Raphssos on longer rides methinks.

Dale, you're not a man known for his sartorial elegance but on this occasion it seems you had good reason for looking like you'd been dragged through a hedge backwards.

there was already too many Jameses on the ride, you would have caused a pile-up

Where are all the pics from this ride???

Confiscated by police as evidence in the nimhbus vs old lady case.

right.

she wasn't an old lady, she was about 35, and perfectly physically fit, so much so, in fact, that she was able to leap into the road from standing start.

she was fit... blonde... C cup...