Finished (at last)

[Si]

The new fixed wheel.
Actually it was finished a little before Christmas but a catastrophic failure on its first outing meant that it's been in a state of rebuild again since then.



At the moment it's sort of shiny (or as near as it will ever get) so I thought that I'd post it just for the sake of it.

Note: the silly handle bars are not me trying to look kewl, it's 'cos I've knackered by back and can't reach drops - honest gov'

[Domestique]

Nice 

[clarion]

It's a bit yellow.

Someone will be along in a moment to comment on the chain...

[Si]

It's a bit yellow.

Someone will be along in a moment to comment on the chain...

Just like Johnny Milner's '32: "piss yella" & chrome. apparently it was the first time anyone had ever asked Fred Williams for a yellow fame when I bought it in the early nineties - I was told that they had to do a special mix because yellow was like white: and you know the old adage "You'll never sell white bikes".

My thoughts were that the brighter and shinier the frame the less likely I was to be SMIDSYed - important because the frame was replacing the one that a copper had just driven over while I was riding it around a roundabout and if copper's have a hard time seeing you then what hope everyone else!

I've since learned that brightness is unimportant if people don't bother looking in the first place.

[Wobbly John]

Two bottle cages. 

How long are the sessions you ride on that turbo? 




PS Nice bike - me likey. 

[clarion]

My thoughts were that the brighter and shinier the frame the less likely I was to be SMIDSYed - important because the frame was replacing the one that a copper had just driven over while I was riding it around a roundabout and if copper's have a hard time seeing you then what hope everyone else!

Good luck with that - when Butterfly was hit last week, she was wearing fluo yellow jacket and had multiple lights front and back.*  

I've since learned that brightness is unimportant if people don't bother looking in the first place.

Well, precisely.





* Though her bike is dark green.  Now, maybe if it had been yellow....

[innesh]

Those bars look just like mine - they are amazingly comfortable. 

[Deano]

That is SO nice.

Though I would, personally, draw the line before yellow tyres and frame.   That's just me, though.

[Si]

That is SO nice.

Though I would, personally, draw the line before yellow tyres and frame.   That's just me, though.

Ha, you should have seen it before the crash - yellow bar tape too 

[clarion]

You do know you have no class, don't you?

[Si]

Class is as class does 

[clarion]

Class is as class does 

It is.

[Paul]

I quite like that, Bodger.