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Campag and Campag will work tho ;)

#newpagefail

Does Alex know you talk like this?

Like what? Like someone trying, and failing, to make do a funny and failing?
We've been together for a fair bit, i reckon she's got an idea.

Here's £500 towards a Silver Cross

I've asked on the other place, I'm after thumb shifters that'll work with a 6500 rear mech.
Will any old frictionless job do it?

This. Totally unacceptable. Fucking heathens.

Those new DA cranks will look horrible on that. Get Chorus. When last did you ride a bike with Campagnolo on n it?

Just take the stickers off the campag wheels.

It'll look ACE

This ^^

Trying to get this off the ground.

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I have a pair of 8 speed thumb shifters

This year. A canyon with super record. It was fine until it wasn't.

And they'll work with a 10 speed block? I know 8 and 10 are different numbers but frictionless = analogue where indexed = fixed number right?

If so, how much you want?

No, index. Only 7 or 8 speed

What you sayin? ;)

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Whoa! Look at all those spacers

Chanelling obree

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I'm wondering if replacing my ageing Planet-X RT-57 frame with a Bowman Palace:R is a good idea..?

Clearly a distraction from the fact I need to find a bike that'll take little man on the back plus my weekly cheese shopping. Genesis Day One? Criox de Fer?

Fuck knows. Someone help me out here...

On the Bowman front you could probably wangle a discount and if you let them know you're interested they will let you test a bike in your size. So deffo worth exploring.

I think any bike can carry a child seat. I'm tempted to build a big wheel single speed clunker bike.

The Croix de Fer is a stable bike, and handles weight well.

Fairly often I'll carry up to 8kg on a pannier on one side and it feels fine. (And occasionally that will be up to 10kg if I've stopped off at your shop to pick up the weekly cheese supply.)

If you've got a better-distributed load - i.e. spread across the bike rather than one-sided - then it would obviously take a fair bit more weight and still handle well. I specced mine with the idea that I might want (probably no more than) 25kg for some touring with a couple of panniers.

Looking at the internet a male child doesn't reach 20kg until the age of 6. That leaves an allowance for 5kg of cheese. Is that enough?

Don't forget a child moves around more than cheese so can upset that stability somewhat.

Not ridden with a child on the back of a road bike, only Nic's wide bar ladies bike, but have wondered if the narrower bars combined with aforementioned wriggling would make the handling more interesting.

I would also recommend gears. Child plus associated stuff plus child seat weighs about as much as having a second bike on your back. A second bike that is constantly trying to upset your balance.

Some info:
http://thebikerackdc.com/2015/09/23/a-gu­ide-to-transporting-the-kids/

There's a good cargo bike shop by Regents Park (although I've never been in)
http://www.londongreencycles.co.uk/

You could fill this box with kids and cheese

And this one is a bit more 'aero' with a fairing

When I had Miriam on the back of my banana fixie I found getting on and off troublesome. My foot kept catching the top tube.
A step thru frame or a much smaller MTB with 1*10 is where I'd go. And I have as I've bought a £30 step thru woman's frame from planet x. It'll get a carbon fork, mini Vs, and I'm not sure about flat or drop bars yet.

Also massive tyres.