Julian from Schmoos is selling his Raleigh Record Ace Moderne, it's a real beauty and in nice condition. It's rocking a 56cm, Reynolds 653 frame, sweet Mavic MA 40 rims, a double ring crankset that can be taken down to one ring for fixed use, an awesome saddle with gold accents and full Shimano doodads. He's looking for £200 and will chuck in new tyres and bar tape for that price. If you are interested give him a ring on 01792 467070.
I got myself a bangin' set of drops today from Re-Cycle, it took a fair amount of scavenging through the bar box (see pic) to find a super shiny, rust-free, wide (I've been watching all the old 70's documentaries), nice shaped drops. A bit more looking around for a long stem and I was in business. Now my bike feels like a rocket :-D
Knee Cap -vs- Bar Stem from FixedGearWales on Vimeo.
Sion very kindly designed these awesome spoke cards for us. If you want one send me a message through the contact page with your name, address and what colour you want an'd I'll cut one out, laminate it and post it out to you asap :-)
I've never ridden with earphones in cause it seems pretty dangerous if you wear both and can't hear traffic, a lot of people do but personally I think its plain crazy riding and not being totally aware of your surroundings. I've tried riding with only one earphone in and it's ok but so much of the music is lost that it's hardly worth it most of the time, until now...
Another great point about the Full Metal Jackets is that they are fully metal so they are really tough, the cable is real strong too which makes a change, it's also nice and long so the buds don't get yanked out every time you peddle like the pile of crap Sennheiser cx300's did which I had before these.
