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His frame, he can do what he likes to it as far as i'm concerned. OTN is not full of bell ends.

Because these days, walls count as something, not nothing.

Get 5mm allen key - Loosen stem bolts (so it's loose on the steerer) - Do up top cap, with reasonable force but not hanging off the end of the allen key - Do stem bolts back up - Check it's tight but turns freely. Is how you should do it, it's hard to tell what you did from your description. Ask someone who knows what they're doing to help.

That was beautiful. Unlucky, mine went all wobbly, saw it was my forks and walked it home. Then i ieft the front wheel to get over a kerb and my bars came away in my hand. Good job i wasn't doing taps/gaps to front.

"Colourful world of VIZ" haha.

Just to make my point, i pressed 'add reply' twice. Go computers!

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You have undone your stem bolts, havn't you?

Money no object - Sram XO Money an object - SHimano Sora/Tiagra.

Haha, nice sig Matt! Pics are pretty. It appears some people must wear their pants on top of their trousers around here... Ho hum.

Would be better if it had a Mavic sticker on it...

We bought a 1.5 litre bottle of coke for 99p from Waitrose, 3 bottles for £1.50, bargain :'( Or we go scabbing at Sainsbury's and buy their 30p cans of Coke. Never really a shortage of shops in London...

Tapping a 50"-ish wall today with a small drop on the other side, my foot slipped forwards off the pedal and my leg soemhow got hooked on the back edge of the wall, so i fell 50" onto my back, and put a nice big dent into my helmet from the tarmac. I woulda been walking around with a bit of metal in my noggin if i hadn't have been wearing a helmet. *Wanders off to find Paracetamol*

I guess Bromley Bikes would be your best bet? I can't remember seeing a multi-coloured one in their display cabinet, i'll have an ask for you next time i'm in there.

Hook Woods. London.

Ooh new skin... Anyways, depends what grind you have the ZOO's on. A matey of mine rusn them on a VERY light grind, just enough to stop the pads glazing, and his are around 6 months old. Admittedly there was a fair amount of brake dust on his rim when the grind was sharp, but it gives better braking, especially in the wet.

Holy gay. Looks like you've picked up random King bits from the floor and fashioned them into a headset.

Haha, You wanna try coming to Croydon! Exeter is AMAZING compared to Croydon, seriously! Anyways, thanks for the comments, the uni looks good from what i can tell from the prospectus, and it sounds like a course well suited to myself. Cheers, Woody.

Shimano and True Precision make them. They're heavy. Why do you want one on your XC bike? I don't think Shimano make their silent clutch hubs anymore.

Theres no debate, mod is clearly better. There are no decent stock riders in the world. Look at CLS and you will realise that every stock rider sucks. Mods are ill. End of.

CLS and The Tunnimeister. Or Toxicity. You decide.

Er, you what? 2 things to make it decent to ride to places: 1: A proper seat + post. 2: Gears. I say: Echo Pure.

Cheers lads, sounds good :) I've wandered round the town and it certainly seems like a good place. My uncle runs the metalwork shop in the arts college, sounds like it's a good place to be at. If i get in, i'm gonna have to work on the accent :) 'Where's that to?' and 'how is it?' are as far as i have got so far hehe. Cheers ;)

Either: Buy a disk brake Get someone to grind your rim, observe them Buy a jumbo sized pack of thuuper absorbant kitchen roll to wipe your rim with every 5 seconds. In the wet with a smooth rim i woulda thought the compound of the pad would contribute ~ 1/10th of f**k all due to it being water on aluminuim, not pad on aluminium.

This what you're after? Those were the days when i could ride :)