South East beers - Tuesdays @ The Roebuck, SE1 4YG

^dont forget youve got my rear light.

Employment LOL. I'm so glad I'm home drinking copious amount of tea. In my pants.
Last night was great, I only put names to half of the faces but I'll be back. Ed and Loic should have stayed longer too.

Texted Rosie to say I was leaving PS at 20 past 11. Make it home at 5 past midnight. 45 minutes to travel 5 miles. What the fuck happened?

Sound like you need the Gabba jersey.

Big talk no game :)
"Pfft. 25kph is slow. Come back when you're crusing 30kph+"

I stand by those words. Did you compute your commute? The world of promuting awaits...

Oooh I'm starting to sober up. I ran amok, all of those things that seemed like a good idea last night don't now.

Much headache. Very embarrassment.

I ran amok ordering tyres - the most responsible kind of amokness.

Texted Rosie to say I was leaving PS at 20 past 11. Make it home at 5 past midnight. 45 minutes to travel 5 miles. What the fuck happened?

you lead me home some weird and wonderful way. it was fun

I got a right bollocking when i got home. I blame antidote....

I came in loud demanding cigarettes and refusing to get to bed.

Catchy lyrics. Can't quite identify the song.

^^^^ clearly you need a drink...!

Oooh I'm starting to sober up. I ran amok, all of those things that seemed like a good idea last night don't now.

Much headache. Very embarrassment.

You embarrassed yourself....you made claims....

Texted Rosie to say I was leaving PS at 20 past 11. Make it home at 5 past midnight. 45 minutes to travel 5 miles. What the fuck happened?

Dirty kebab?

Branwen repped for quality picture timing. It was a special moment.

Did it bring you to tears?

Catchy lyrics. Can't quite identify the song.

Song of his people.

Ahem

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SE new couple?

SE's least-sleeved couple

Did you compute your commute? The world of promuting awaits...

Job for tonight. Heavens, next I'll be on strava .. bleurgh

I ran amok ordering tyres - the most responsible kind of amokness.

Not the only one - I've two new panaracers at home now

We're so close to moving to Microcosm that I've not chased on donations in months and months and last year stated that we were ticking over, month to month: https://www.lfgss.com/post3743785-430.html

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We are actually working on the Microcosm export and import scripts now, and so it is close. But it's still not tomorrow and our present costs are real.

The big issue: We've actually lost money every month for the last 6 months.

Our revenue comes from 2 places:

1) Affiliates (when you click on links to eBay, Rapha, Chain Reaction Cycles, Wiggle, etc and then subsequently buy something, they give us a kick back).

2) Donations (the PayPal subscriptions).

Affiliates has counted for about 70% of the costs for quite a long while, and donations cover the rest.

The affiliate revenue varies by season, dropping in the winter and regaining in the summer. And usually the summer revenue offsets the losses over winter and everything works out fine.

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The problem today is that the affiliate revenues collapsed in November (as expected, it's seasonal), but didn't then recover in Jan, Feb, Mar or April. In fact they've been between a third and half of the expected amount.

Meaning that I've personally subsidised the forum costs since November believing it would start to recover in January and have fully recovered by March. This hasn't happened.

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Todat we are about half of our usual revenue for this time of year. Meaning the losses aren't being made up and I knew a crunch was coming.

As it stands, we do not have enough money in the bank to pay any of the costs this month. The crunch is here.

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And I personally cannot subsidise the shortfalls (I only receive a take home wage of £850 per month and my credit card has been taking the hit when LFGSS falls short).

We basically need to recover the revenue we've lost through donations... which means either:
1) Encouraging more people to help out
2) Encouraging those are helping out to help more
3) Some generous sod has a couple of grand spare just to put us back to above zero and cover the shortfalls of the last few months

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My personal view is always going to be the "keep donations low, and voluntary, and encourage more people to help out".

So I'm going to change the site header and basically do a pledge drive for most of May.

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But if you are donating already and can afford to up the amount or frequency (i.e. from a beer a quarter, to a beer a month)... then that would be incredible.

Rather embarrassed it's got this far. Each month I've watched the affiliate revenue expecting the bounce after the Christmas slump, but it just hasn't happened.

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A little love for the forum if you can buy it a beer.

nice one cb, beer for the forum!

On it.

^150cc Rainbow Road? I'll never be that good.

bring it

i dont understand you young people

Hello south east London crew!
I need your help. My flatmate badly twisted his knee and broke his toe falling off his bike about 6-7 weeks ago.
He is a lot better now but still a bit reluctant going back on the road. He is not against training a bit at home though, his physiotherapist encouraged this actually.
The only rollers I own are the "traditional" model where you just put your bike straight onto. As everybody knows, people buy that kind of equipment then use them twice a year. If someone had a dusty, but functional and sturdy turbo trainer he could borrow for a few weeks, to fit his road bike on and get better with his knee, that would be super kind, yo! I would come pick up the machinery with my trailer. I'm sure Carlos could offer compensation in beers, or maybe a meal if you no scare: he tends to deep fry the shit out of everything, bloody spanish (note to self: buy an extractor hood before the flat become as oily as a dodgy Morley's)

Thank you.

Loic