Brick Lane Bikes (BLB) Bike Shop

Talking to yourself Wicksie?

That was a valid post, IMO. Poor form in deleting it.

Talking to yourself Wicksie?

That is SO mean boss man.

Valid but you can read it in like three other threads.

I'm just waiting on my cyclescheme cheque to come through so I can spend a happy £1000 in BLB. I will of course whine on this thread if it all goes horribly wrong.

And it looks like Andyp is ripping in to me.

#takenonefortheteam

For the record I wasn't ripping into Wicksie.

:-)

Thanks Andy, you're one of my favourites.

#forumrespek.

What's all this about then?

Bromance.

Bromance.

One of us is not a man.

Sounds like a bit in seaseme street...

andy

is there something you are not telling us - was it you that gave birth?

MrsP as referred to on Dragons Den is actually Andrea, AKA andyp on lfgss

have never met wicksie so not commenting there

Wicks is defo a man, would a woman name themselves after a diy store?

but the 'ie' makes the DIYing seem more feminine

Thank you Crumb. The rest of you are biatches. Except Andyp, he's still a favourite.

DJ, haven't met but I have stood behind you for about half an hour.

#notastalker.

Wicks is defo a man, would a woman name themselves after a diy store?

Sexist.
And homophobic.
I could be a gay. Gay women like DIY.

I prefer GSOCTDIFY.

Small point in favour of BLB, which I recently discovered: they carry Ambrosio Excellight rims, which are irritatingly hard to track down otherwise. (Cue 53 people telling me their local Tesco does them).

I thought BLB were cool man. Great guys they know their stuff. A little pricey in some respects but hey so what.

UTFS. Someone mentioned that 2 1/2 years ago on an obscure thread about dub and reggae in the miscellaneous board.

Ha ha ha, nice. This has been a choice week for comedy - keep it up please folks.

I'm just waiting on my cyclescheme cheque to come through so I can spend a happy £1000 in BLB. I will of course whine on this thread if it all goes horribly wrong.

Posting as promised. While parked outside BLB today some toerag stole my bar ends.

NOW I HATE BLB. (>_<)

Outside the front or outside the back where they have that massive bike parking space?

Outside outside. Didn't know about the parking out back, it used to be filled with surly mechanics when I used to go back in the days.

Stupid parking.

I'm kind of a newbie and I wanted to build my first "cheap" conversion
Went in BLB with a frame I got off eBay (a very nice road Peugeot / SuperVitus), I wanted a very cheap way to adjust the chainline to begin, just to try the "fixie" experience (after which, btw, I never used freewheel anymore)
After treating me like an idiot they tried to sell me almost everything they had in the shop, pointing out that I was an ignorant and everything they were proposing me was absolutely indispensable to begin riding.
They asked me something like 150 quids to buy new crank set, bottom bracket, chainring etc. telling me that there was no other way to adjust the chainline but changing everything

I went to sheldon's, got some shims off ebay the very same day, £3.99, and never went back to BLB ever since