Wankenger of the year awards

yes..how poignant. i agree.

I agree with Sano, depending of the day,is the treatment.

mouse, you've spent more £££'s (rapha, assos, lead bike) at condor than BLB has ever earned!

Once i was in Guildford and stopped in a shop - think it was Raleigh - and they didn't let me use the pump!

Have to give +1 to Brixton Cycles as they let customers use their tools outside the shop - really helpful.

yup brixton are the nuts, i love their sign "no manners, no spanners"

and yes aidan they go through loads of them, they sold me a track pump with the immortal line: "if it's good enough to last 4 weeks with some of the idiots that use it out there, it'll last you."

mouse, you've spent more £££'s (rapha, assos, lead bike) at condor than BLB has ever earned!
And your point is?

You Either Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Killing.

I Vote For the Killing.

even Halfords give you free air / pump usage.

good retailing isn't about market forces, it's about customer satisfaction. If you charge ££$£ for anything & everything you will be a bit more profitable while things are going well, but people will resent being ripped off (see Whitcomb) & when the bubble bursts & you are back to the hardcore customers, they will have found a shop that didn't piss on the relationship with the customer during the boom times.

it's short-sighted & greedy & will come back to bite them on the arse.

You Either Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Killing.

I Vote For the Killing.

I agree. Who will join us?

Chubby Claire on the Apprentice. Her accent and face are killing that show for me.

i think most of us on here will smile and laugh when BLB put themselves out of business. i am not a fan of London Fields either tbh.
my only regret having recently moved to E8 is that these are my LBSs. i will blank them both though in favour of Kiwi Paul, Ebay and the good people of this forum.

anyone caught short near London Fields is welcome to spin round mine for use of a track pump. if you have manners of course

Chubby Claire on the Apprentice. Her accent and face are killing that show for me.

oh, i think she has something.

oh, i think she has something.

+1 Strangely drawn...

+1 Strangely drawn...

WTF???

each to their own, I guess

but seriously WTF is there to be drawn to, strangely or otherwise?

+1 Strangely drawn...

she has a wooly hat and beard?

She overplucks her eyebrows and smiles a lot even when Sirralan is giving her a bollocking? Surely counts for summat.

Is she the one with the eyebrows that have been drawn on so badly, she looks like she's constantly sitting on a pin?

One time I was having some chainline issues and wondered if switching to a different cog would help matters. I wondered down to brixton cycles, where the dude let me try a cog, offered me tools to change it (but I had brought my own) plus grease, let me change it over and ride down the road an back, before deciding it the gearing was too low (they didn't have the 18t in stock), and taking it off again, deciding that my original cog was fine after all. The guy was still smiling and joking around as I rode off after I wasting a half hour of his time, trying a part I didn't buy and spending a total of 0 pounds (and its not even like I was a regular having only been in there a couple of times ever).

Not only did that make it the bike shop I would most like to spend money in in future, but I also feel compelled to repeat this story on any given opportunity and to recommend them to others.

she is the self proclaimed fan of Oprah Winfrey "because she is a yo-yo dieter like me"... Just thinking of her makes my blood boil.

Defo 6 pinter, Jennifer Maguire (dark haired irish girl)on the other hand, holy smokes

i think this is the first time Chug_it and I have agreed on anything

You both fancy the same obviously quite-good-looking woman. Not exactly the Treaty of Versailles is it?

oh, i think she has something.

and that something is a face like a bag of smashed arseholes

Fancy her?? What part of "she makes my blood boil" sounds at all amorous?

Raif is gonna win that show hands down, smug Claire can go back to plucking her eyebrows

she has a wooly hat and beard?

aha - badly drawn!

anyway, mebbe it was her incessant chatter that melted my critical faculties. and she does smile alot.

oh, i think she has something.

Yeah, a shit accent and a face like a bag of smashed crabs...

fuck-a-doodle-do!... i can't believe anyone can be arsed to watch that load of sycophantic morons smarming up Alan Sugars cram hole. For the love of the baby jesus, bring back the effing test card.