Buy David Byrne's Bike

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/386267/david-byrne-auctions-his-talking-heads-bike-on-ebay.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8192034.stm

It was also reported in yesterday's Independent

^So that's 6 people who already know?

I only bought two copies yesterday, did you get four?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180393970113

Could do with more detail and better photos of the bike, C-.

I'm bidding on his hat.

I won't then.

I haven't even bought his albums for years. Will the bike be available on PirateBay?

you'll just end up on a road to nowwhere on that bike

but it's a once in a lifetime opportunity

I left a 'mini-festival' at about three on sunday morning, some record-changer was playing 'road to nowhere' as we were leaving, driving into a thick fog and very quiet drive back from Brighton... very poetic. Then, when we got to London, my CD of 'Kamaal da Abstract' finished and i put the radio on. Road to Nowhere blasted out at us. Oh how we laughed.

Why give the cash to LCC? He must like them a lot...

Nice one Mr Byrne.

Good man. It's already at £820 as of now.

Its definitely the first thing i'd try to rescue if someone was burning down the house.

Shame the money isn't going to a practical cycling charity instead of a political one.

Shame the money isn't going to a practical cycling charity instead of a political one.

Pray explain?

You know, something that provides adapted bikes for the disabled or some other grass-roots thing, but may not normally be on the radar and get enough money.

The LCC is too big, influential, well known, and well funded already. It's the Greenpeace effect.

a practical cycling charity instead of a political one.

The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

You know, something that provides adapted bikes for the disabled or some other grass-roots thing, but may not normally be on the radar and get enough money.

The LCC is too big, influential, well known, and well funded already. It's the Greenpeace effect.

I would have though of the advice and advocacy they provide as being practical....

You know, something that provides adapted bikes for the disabled or some other grass-roots thing, but may not normally be on the radar and get enough money.

The LCC is too big, influential, well known, and well funded already. It's the Greenpeace effect.

The groups you advocate benefit greatly from the LCC's work. Increasing the diversity of the Londoners cycling is one of our key mission objectives, and we work closely with a wide range of community organisations on such projects. There's no real separation.

We certainly aren't funded anywhere near as well as Greenpeace. I wish! Our staff team is essential for providing a strong voice of advocacy, but compared to the size of London and to our membership it is small. Most of the work of the LCC is done by volunteers in local groups.

Sure, you'll work with those groups, but you'll also spend a load on self-promotion and political advocacy, making sure only one point of view is advocated. That's not the same as all of that money going to grass-roots stuff.

Sure, you'll work with those groups, but you'll also spend a load on self-promotion and political advocacy, making sure only one point of view is advocated. That's not the same as all of that money going to grass-roots stuff.

It never would, in any case, and on value for money comparisons we score very highly (very low overheads, for instance). All of our 'self-promotion' is spent on furthering the cause of cycling in London, and membership offers London cyclists a very good deal that saves them money. And of course effective campaigning includes (non-party) political advocacy. I'd certainly be happy to explain to you more how we operate as an organisation. Don't be misled because you disagree with one campaign (or more?) that we're running. Or, better still, get involved and help shape the way the LCC campaigns!

lets get back to the puns people
less of the politicall chit chat

It was OK to have that, just Once in a Lifetime.

lets get back to the puns people
less of the politicall chit chat

[London]Psycho[Campaign] Killer

Oh yeah, and Oliver, Stop Making Sense.

"you wan arrospok?
has hub for making flippy floppy!
100 dora!"

tenuous.