PONY BIKE'S AND LEARN SOME F#*#ING MANNERS

You'd have to be living under a rock not to know about this event:

which is being held @ the Pony tomorrow

Alot of work goes into organizing these things
and fortunately the Pony is surrounded by some pretty amazing people
who have given up their own time to put this on for you

I was pretty pissed when some one called 'pedal pusher'
left this comment on my blog

"where's the link to the Ring of Fire event? cough up some more details"

Pedal Pusher,
I know you're a guy
(cause most girls won't speak like that)

I'd like to introduce you to the word 'please'
and also let you know that in my experience on this planet
you usually get what you want by being courteous
and asking nicely...

If you have met me
(which I doubt)
you would know that I don't bow to demands from anyone...
and rather,
go out of my way to help people who treat me as a human being.

So in short learn some f#*#ing manners
and make an effort to volunteer at one of the hundreds of events
that are run for you
instead of just taking all the time

Rant over

Play nice tomorrow kids

PONY BIKE'S AND CAMILLA'S PISTA CUSTOM

This is Camilla's Allegro Pista

The Pista is a triple butted cro-moly track bike
that Pony sells out of the box for $1400

Camilla's had brake's fitted on the front and rear
the bike was run as a singlespeed
a tasty Brooks saddle
and gold platforms

Enjoy your bike Camilla!

PONY BIKE'S AND LIAM'S PUEGEOT

This is Liam's Peugeot

He was going to run it fixed/free
but took the leap and went fixed only

Promax calliper and lever
Black risers
Oury grips
original stem given a polish by tha Pony
original front wheel

New Bottom Bracket
Dotek crankset
cycle underground chainring
MKS sylvan track pedals
and clips

B43 laced to Velocity track hub

You don't have to spend a fortune to have a rad bike...

this Peugeot takes a 24mm seatpost
which is an uncommon size
if anyone has one in good condition
and would be happy to part with it
contact the Pony

PONY BIKE'S AND CAROLINA'S RALEIGH

This is Carolina's Raleigh,
it came to Pony for a repair,
but I just had to show you the beautiful restoration of this bike

Carolina sourced the original decals on the internet

And cleaned up the rest of the parts herself

The unfortunate thing was the bottom bracket was a Shimano FFS
or front freewheel system

The freewheel is in the bottom bracket,
and the cog block on the rear wheel is fixed,
what this enabled was a gear change when you weren't pedalling...
sounds pretty fantastic in theory,
but was prone to lots of issues
and scrapped by Shimano after a very short period of time

Sheldon Brown tagged this system as
"a solution looking for a problem"

you can see the 1982 Shimano catalog and FFS
here
and
here

check out the rad 80's cycling clothing while you're at it!

I rebuilt the freehub and it worked for about five minutes
in the stand before the whole assembly seized
the main issue is the non drive lock nuts on the bottom bracket
would over tighten as you pedal
compressing the bottom bracket and then in turn the freewheel
so you'd end up with a fixed bike

Carolina wanted a simple singlespeed to get around Melburn,
so I ran a new bottom bracket, crankset and rear wheel with freewheel

I was a little sad that the original system had to be stripped from the bike
as I quite like some of the kookier things you get to see on the older bikes

but what Carolina ended up with was a reliable lighter classic singlespeed
She's a beauty huh?!