What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

Is it my imagination or is the guy on the right tensing? WAC etc

I have lived in Dalston for 7 years but still haven't made my way through all the Ockabasis yet. Will get on it.

Great times no worries hungover on monday didnt care, going to work from a mates sofa was common place....not any more>>middle age thread

Is there a consensus as to who does the very best kebabs in that area? I might have to get down there, it's been a while.

E. Mono - Kentish town

Leaving out the doner, posh or poor, Mangal on Arcola Road is still the best restaurant round there.

Ahead of the mini-velo game too.

Small wheels, check.
Slack geo, check.
Tan wall tyres, check.
Proprietary custom bars, check
Bike packing, check.
Mustache, check.

@amey like influencer game is strong! Just needs dangly mug

Isn't it mad though how the essential design of the bicycle has barely changed in a century. Look at those wheels! The fundamental mechanics are all identical to today, except the brake actuation mechanism perhaps - is that rod or cable?

Been past that place many times but not been in. I find it hard to go sit down anywhere other than Mangal but if this chilli sauce is as good as you say, I'll check it out.

100% this

Lo-pro, check

OG keeper of the stoke maybe

Also seemingly a bivi-beret.

Ta! Is there an idler wheel you put the non-driving chain on or something? Can't find any decent photos/descriptions in a quick hunt online.

Leaving out the doner, posh or poor, Mangal on Arcola Road is still the best restaurant round there.

Arcola STREET. ;) But yeah, Mangal is good.

@StandardPractice Istanbul next to Efes pool club does some of the best sit-down Turkish in the area. Their meat sharing platters for "2" have outdone several of my mates sharing between 3 or 4.

dem mudguards tho

I understand there was a specific item in the Code Napoleon that prohibited the trimming of mudguard stays.

People often forget he invented F1 bmx.

Also, no dremel in 1909.

I also love the fact that there was this late-19th-century Cambrian Explosion of cycle designs of varying degrees of madness; pretty much every non-electronic innovation since will have been tried then (albeit possibly with limited original success). Full-susser? Check. Variable-ratio cranks? Check. Ergonomic saddle guaranteed to cosset your gooch? Check.

Only info I can find is from The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles by Jan Heine and Jean-Pierre Praderes, beautifully illustrated with other early innovations as well.

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Ta - I think a mate's got that book, so I'll have to check it out!

Disc brakes is maybe the only "new" thing, but those came down from motorbikes I believe?

Which got "invented"" when people put engines on pushbikes for teh lulz.

I mean, carbon fibre obviously. Those Tron-like TT/tri bikes with 80mm wheels and no triangle in the frame aren't possible with other materials (unless you want a 30kg bike).

Even talking about just "functional" bikes there are frame shapes that are possible now that obviously would have been absurd with old metalworking practices

Brain fart.

Lusted over this in local Halfords.

Only pic I have ever seen.