Any question answered...

If a police car wants you to run a red, you are committing an offence if you do not do it.

can anyone recommend any nice curry places around covent garden/soho?

You could try using a portable firefox or chrome to use from a usb drive or network store.

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable for anyone interested.

Are double leather straps realy worth the huge price? (for a fixed gear rider)

http://velosolo.co.uk/shoppedal.html

£19

Should I get new bike on the work tax free scheme just for the sake of it?

if your legs are like chris hoy yes
all other legs need not apply

Should I get new bike on the work tax free scheme just for the sake of it?

If you want it, can afford it and your company will do it for you then yes, you absolutely should.

Cheers for the help on the stripped pedal threads, but its only a budget shimano crank and Im not in London so i think I'll just go for a new crankset.

Are double leather straps realy worth the huge price? (for a fixed gear rider)

No, they are an affectation. If you're worried about your feet staying in the clips, it's probably because your brakes don't work properly, and brakes are cheaper than double straps.

That said, they are stonger and you needn't pay 80 quid for the MKS alphas. The exus ones on velsolo are very good, check the pic for the double laminate, i thiknk they're 30 pound. Reasonable

On a bike, you can usually get up on the footway to make room, where there is a footway.

Did this in front of a foot copper. He shrugged and said "not technically legal, but there you go".

I think you'll find that as long as you pay attention to reasonable safety breach of red lights in/on a vehicle will treated in the spirit rather than the letter of the law. Be ware of the automatic cameras mounted on some lights. Given that they issue tickets to the emergency vehicles that you're trying to make room for, you're unlikely to be afforded much courtesy until some jobsworth writes a letter to you and even then it's pretty hit and miss.

Sorry, I meant 'get off your bike and stand on the footway, waiting for the emergency vehicle to pass'.

Anyone who can't get a knife sharper with a steel is a retard. "Ding!": next?

Using iTunes, when an album is playing while I browse around at other albums, it stops playing the album at the end of that track. It's really annoying. Is there a way to stop this happening?

Do you have to use iTunes?

Just in case Aducius was asking a genuine question:

No. I've heard good things about foobar.

My question was in response to hanged_up. I stopped using iTunes ages ago because it was crap.
I was wondering if hanged_up had to use iTunes for a specific purpose, or if (s)he could use something else.

What do you use?

Winamp. It's not amazing but it synchs stuff to my ipod and lets me edit tags easily. There are probably better players out there, but I don't use it enough to get annoyed and find something else.

Doesn't have to be iTunes, no. It suits my needs apart from for this annoying glitch.

That would be enough to make me change media players. If iTunes is still as bloated and sluggish as it used to be then there are probably plenty of better (free) options out there.
As I said, I don't use iTunes. There *might *be a setting somewhere in the options to stop it...

Not sure of the law for a bike, but jumping a red to get out of the way of an emergency vehicle in a car is pretty much the only situation in which an appeal will stand up.

Also +1 for Foobar. my computer's so much faster at startup since I ditched itunes.

Cheers, Foobar seems pretty decent. Shame you can't add more than one folder at a time to the album list though, and even adding one is slower than on iTunes. Gonna take me a while to get them all on there... unless I'm doing it wrong?

Using iTunes, when an album is playing while I browse around at other albums, it stops playing the album at the end of that track. It's really annoying. Is there a way to stop this happening?

if you playing an albun, it iwll stop, no matter what.
have you try with a playlist, I think they can carry on playing