Just stuck some Oury grips on my bike with hairspray. I now have a large 'tin' Silverkrin firm hold hairspray....so if anyone is in the Sawston area and wants to use some firm hold hairspray to stick or restick a set of grips or to keep their hair in place....just let me know!

Hi ,Stacy will probably need some for his mohawk -(i'm an individual ) haircut , I've got no hair and use tape but quite like lighting aerosols . Are you the only red in the village?

I am!.....My socialism embarasses my wife big time........Stacy is welcome to a blast of the Silverkrin!

Can you still get the Morning Star newspaper ? My landlady in Glasgow used to read it , i haven't seen it in years . It was old skool communism 20 years ago , the editorial team are probably all dead , way better than Socialist worker .

Yes....it is still available...i either get it from my local Budgens in Sawston or WH Smith in the centre of Cambridge and it cost £0.60.....a bit thin but still a good newspaper politically...but a few weeks ago their was a detailed report about Lewis Hamilton at a F1 GP....which i thought was a tad bourgeois for a 'paper of the left'....but perhaps i am being over sensitive.....but as you say it is better than socialist worker.

I'll have a look out for it , i am a market stall, street trader in Market street Cambridge and people tell me that being a communist market trader is an oxymoron, but i did live and work in co-operatives and communes for years in London and Scotland. I just got bored of useless hippies and being skint. I'm finding solace in local boy, Wisbech's William Godwin father of the author Frankenstien . His belief of gradualist Anarchism where by rather having a violent revolution, government eventually gets phased out through disinterest and people one morning wake up to find a casual optimistic utopian future .Godwinist Fixie?

Sounds good to me......imposing a revolution on the people does not work........Communism=from each according to their abilities + to each according to their needs......but socialism=from each according to their abilities + to each according to work done.......That is according to Marx!...so being a shop trader and a communist is not really an oxymoron......i still believe in democratic socialism...but New Labour is not the locomotive unless it changes....?

Whereabouts are you in Market Street?.....What is your merchanise...i wil say hello next time i am in Cambridge.

I'm struggling to get it... I'll take your word for it . Come to thursday social too ? Stall looks like this, its beside holy trinity church......I sell pretty things for tiny minds

My wife and step daughter bang on about Mamma Mia and Richard and Judy.....Chav kind seem to winning at the moment.....if you are out tomorrow morning...i will try to pop by and say hi

Yes i'm there all day tomorrow.The liberals have taken over round here , poncy patronizing bullshitters .My grandad is my hero , he was a market trader on Romford road all during the blitz . He fought in the 1st world war, driving converted buses to the front. Was a life long West ham supporter and won trophies for cycling . He ended up running a pub till he died in the seventies , a real character.

I am very interested in your grandfather's story....sounds a good bloke.....I was in Market Square just before 9 am today but did not see your stall.....I think i was outside the wrong church!....is Trinity opposite Milletts and Monsoon?.....though i get your name now!.....are you there weekends or only Monday to Friday??

Sorry i took the day off .... it was wet and my chater lee drop outs arrived in the post. I spent the day cutting and burning out some road ends and brazing them into a frame i got down the tip .I'm worried what the geometry will be like , i.e the height of the bottom bracket and where the wheel will sit . But its a cheap conversion.

wow....i know where to come next time!....where you getting it sprayed?....which end are you then?...is it by monsoon/milletts?

That's right i'm on the Monsoon Millets side of market street, my mate Rick knows a guy who bead blasts and paints frames and is reasonable . I've got my own compressor and spray stuff . Saying that though i may leave the frame bare metal and laquer it ( it's for my girlfriend ,she likes that sort of thing)

Just filled the brake bridge with a bit of steel and brazed it in , shit photo but in reality it's cleaned it up nice

An added advantage...is in that state less likely to be borrowed.......permanently!......Ever thought of becoming a frame builder.......?

That's the plan , but there's a lot to learn. I only know of one course in framebuilding ,up in Lincolnshire, but has a two year waiting list :( I've got to borrow some books on the subject .

the course is run by Dave Yates and he is one of the best....you also get a frame for your money...There is no frame builder in Cambridge.....add wheel building and yer in!...a niche!

That's the one.....My mates Rick and Andy of Bicycle Ambulance are both brilliant wheel builders so that niche is covered . What i'm into doing at the moment is converting unloved road frames ,taking off brazed on gear and cable stuff ,filing in brake holes and changing the drop outs . Track lugs seem to be hard to come by, Ceeway and Henry James seem to have some stuff , mostly road though.

I have a small job if you fancy it. Currently converting an old rod brake bike and require some lugs brazing on for the hub and coaster brakes, a few holes brazing in and a cable guide or two. Save me traveling further afield.

Well done...you are now a professional frame builder..your first 'paying' customer..good luck!

I'll take a look , can't promise anything until i see what it involves, but i'm willing to give it a go . Those old rod brake bikes are thick steel so no worries about that.

Thanks. I've sent you an email.

I've got a problem with ntl e-mail , it don't work . Haven't seen your e-mail :( . Maybe PM me

PM sent

I've finished knocking together a bike for Feb

Nice! You went for the clear lacquer then.

Cheers ...It's gonna rust isn't it , the lacquer was plasticote, which has gone all white and blooming probably coz i sprayed it on too thick or too cold or its reacted with traces of oil or nitromores on the frame .It looks nice still, i like the way you can see all the braze around the bottle and brake hole that have been filled like a fried egg in reverse. Feb has such total faith in my brazing ability that she's prepared to ride around on it.... must be mental . You out tonight?

Should be out tonight, yeah. Working on a new section on my website with maps of routes I've taken around Cambridge. I should get it done quicker when I finish work tomorrow.

I'm also in need of some cranks, as I'm finding the disadvantage of buying cheap press-fit ones...

Hello, just joined the Cambridge group...
That bare metal finish looks great! I was considering doing the same on mine but decided to ge for a diy paint job instead (Zinc primer, filler primer and now im ready for the colour).
I'm interested to see how that finsh ages :)
Oh also what tip did you find that frame in?

It was an eighties road frame from a skip at one of these recycling centres . I've got quite a few frames i'm hacking about and putting in track ends at the moment . I have no luck with paint,it always seems to fuck up or fall off . I'm gonna stick to filing and brazing steel frames and get someone else to do the paint if i want it to look nice . Should come to meet us at the Maypole on Thursdays 6.30pm , there was only a few of us tonight we still went for a ride but seems a far cry from the hoards (10ish) that went out earlier this month.

I'll come and join you for a ride once I'm done building, but won't be drinking in the maypole with you seeing as I'm 17.
:)

No probs we only meet outside there at 6.30 , you'll probably find most of us too slow . Alcohol has taken a terrible toll .

Helloo ASOF.

Like the ride, seems neat to me. Still interested in brazing mine?
Cheers
FA

Yes i'll give it a go .