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I thought I'd let you know that I've just been over to Shawlands and there's a charity/second hand shop on Skirving Street that has a Team Banana bike for £30. I had a wee look at it and it seems ok, so if you're in the South Side it may well be worth taking a look at. It's not my bike by the...

Hi Does anyone have (or is anyone able to tell me where to get) a set of chrome bar end plugs for a set of 22.2mm drop bars? I've got Deda tape on my bars but it comes with horrible "carbon effect" plugs which doesn't really suit my bike, I just want something a bit more traditional. Other...

Thanks for your replies, I was really just checking to make sure my measurements were correct because I'd never heard of bars being that size before. I did some digging on the internet and discovered that some older bikes used 22.2mm bars, like Jonny69 said, it appears to be 25.4mm in the middle...

Hi there I've got a Phillips Phantom road bike that I'm converting to single speed, and I was going to put cross top brake levers on to replace the crappy drop levers with 'turkey wing' extensions. However I've just taken the tape off my drop bars and measure across the end of the bars and it...

That looks great, you should be proud of yourself for all the hard work you've put in. As someone said before, I'd love to see the look on your dad's face when he sees it! Also, I fully believe you about the spiders and mites, I found 3 in the tubes of my bike when I took it apart a few...

Hi all Has anyone on here used Lizard Skins bar tape before? I fancy the looks of their white/blue half & half tape, but looking at the grip pattern I think it'll look really out of place on a retro racer with cottered cranks and 27" wheels! Would I be better off going for some of the Fizik...

A Raleigh Professional Track, particularly this one: http://cdn.velospace.org/files/843293757_30dc51143d.jpg I'll probably get a load of stick for it, but I really like the risers on this over the original track drops. *runs and hides*

Thanks guys! I kinda like the 'suicide bars', when I first got the bike the levers were angled so that when I pulled on the lever it came right into the bar and stopped me dead, but I've taken the old tape off, took the bars off and cleaned them and put the levers back on, and now I'm noticing...

On my bike I've got what I can only describe as dual-action brake levers on my drop bars i.e. there are both vertical and horizontal levers for each brake. Is there such a thing as a hood that would fit these levers? I've seen them for the vertical levers, but nothing that would suit mine. In...

Thanks very much! I'd seen the Helicomatic on the Sheldon Brown site but having looked at it, it's not what I've got thankfully! It was the shop I was going to buy the Shimano freewheel from that said that Maillard freewheels only work on Maillard hubs, but I thought that might not be right. I...

Im sure you get a fair few newbies like myself coming on here asking about converting their bikes over to single speed/fixed, but I seem to be a bit stuck, and could do with some help! A few months ago I picked up a Phillips Phantom, with the intention of converting it to single speed, and...