Spotted...

A chap on a Cineli Mash in Camden this morning.

and another chap on a cinelli mash with a white spok. arsenal stadium.

cinelli this morning on Hackney road, 8am, with calf tatooes.

Me on bishopsgate up to great eastern, realising that bishopsgate to great eastern st is no proper way to get through town of a morning. Drowning in a sea of fleuro vests and suicidal bromptons.

The bowl man:

Wow. You have to submit that to the Bike Snob NYC "cockie" contest.

clefty in shebu this morning.

The bowl man:

Love this guy.. See him all the time on OKR.

Jacqui most of the way from stratford to aldgate. Telling me about the plans for the fashion show at the barbican, sounds amazing!

i spotted loads of forumengers on saturday morning whilst walkengering round london's fashionable eastern district.

first of all i spied a neatly shorn mick off of out of off mccarthy serving me a pie and pot of tea in lmnh. i didn't say hello again he was busy and i was deep in conflab with the missus and my saturday besuited and very hungover lawyer friend. hello mick. pie/salad/tea was amazing btw. i may or may not collar you to say hello next time, there's only so many times you can introduce yourself to the same person before you start to feel a bit weird and desperate. i may wear a name-badge next time.

then i saw bluequinn hooning along old street on a brompton. hello.

then i saw johnny spinning down commercial road. hello.

aaaaand i think that's it actually. also went into blb for the first time in my life. it isn't as day-glo inside as i'd imagined.

the end.

lovely blue fixed track frame with black risers and carbon fork locked up at Queen Mary college today. FFS, QM-engers, where did you all come from?! And why do you all have nicer bikes than me?!!!

i dont spose any forumengers happen to work as a bike mangler at the brixton, effra road branch of pissing halfords? cos when i told you to go fuck yourself yesterday afternoon on account of you flatly refusing to lend me a spanner so i could fix a flat, and then proceeded to laugh at my predicament - i rrrrrreally meant it.

i know it's unlikey, but feels good to vent.

Teenslain at Kennington this morning. Taking it easy on the beater.

i dont spose any forumengers happen to work as a bike mangler at the brixton, effra road branch of pissing halfords? cos when i told you to go fuck yourself on account of you flatly refusing to lend me a spanner so i could fix a flat, and then proceeded to laugh at my predicament - i rrrrrreally meant it.

i know it's unlikey, but feels good to vent.

^WTF?

why do you need a spanner to fix a flat?

(only joking, what a dick)

to be fair, i'd be a bit of a dick too if my sunday afternoons were spent putting together pink apollo MTB's for soccer moms to ride to their yoga class once a month.

Can I make myself really unpopular for a moment?
I work in two shops that have lending tools. This is a nice thing to do and I'm glad we do it.
However, I know of no other industry in which it's ok to borrow the things that they have that make them money, ie tools.
Go into starbucks often and ask if you can make your own coffee in their machine?
What about going to the chippy with a bag of frozen chips and using there fryer?
Take your car to the garage and ask if you cam borrow a spark plug remover (note: I don't know anything about cars, this is made up tool name, but you get the idea)?

All of you, stop feeling so entitled, you are essentially asking fir a favor because you are either too cheap or two lazy to carry your own.

I'm with Nat on this

I think a more accurate Starbucks/chippy analogy would be going in and asking for a glass of water. "Why don't you carry a bottle of water if you're going to get thirsty riding your bike" (a valid point, but I've given water to couriers and let them use the toilets at the bar I work in. I'm not going to "laugh at their predicament").

But your closing line is spot-on, I really don't understand people who don't carry the simplest of tools. I got a flat yesterday and it probably added about ten minutes onto my journey, meh.

to be fair, i'd be a bit of a dick too if my sunday afternoons were spent putting together pink apollo MTB's for soccer moms to ride to their yoga class once a month.

Not many soccer mums in Effra Road...just me

meh ok, i'll bite - the examples you propose are completely out of proportion to the request for a simple spanner. and maybe there is a certain sense of entitlement we all labour under, what with free air and quick fix tools generally being on tap, however this is done as a courtesy at pretty much every lbs in town. had the douchenozzle in question simply said 'im afraid not sir, as doing so runs contrary to company policy blah blah' i woulda taken it a bit better than simply being told 'NO', closely followed up by some sniggering when i pleaded on account of the inclement weather. Fucker was lucky i wasnt DJ - else he'd be shitting an entire ratchet set right about now.

I rarely carry sufficient tools.
It's like betting against myself.

I have a short commute I pass 3 bike shops on the way.

Hello Dooks!
Busy day Saturday, riding across town about 3 times.

Hold the front page — people who work in Halfords in 'being wankers' shocker

I imagine that your average lbs looses a tonne of allen keys and spanners every year to 'honest customers'
This is a pointless argument, basically you shouldn't take free shit as a given and carry your own tools like a real man

i dont spose any forumengers happen to work as a bike mangler at the brixton, effra road branch of pissing halfords? cos when i told you to go fuck yourself yesterday afternoon on account of you flatly refusing to lend me a spanner so i could fix a flat, and then proceeded to laugh at my predicament - i rrrrrreally meant it.

i know it's unlikey, but feels good to vent.
and the moral of the story is: take what you need to fix a flat with you. always.

How much do you recon the glass of water costs ts replace?
Nothing, it's water, the only charge is the tenth of a pence that the water itself costs.
Although it costs less than that for me to lend a spanner out, can you guess what our lending library costs us per week in terms of replacements? What about the "free" air? Any guess how many pumps "customers" break per week?
I am very unsurpised when any shop does not offer these things out.
I would like to say again that I like the fact that my shop does, but I'm unsurprised that another shop, especially in Brixton, does not, nor am I that surprised that they wernt polite about it, although politeness is one of the few things that is absolutly free.

I imagine that your average lbs looses a tonne of allen keys and spanners every year to 'honest customers'
This is a pointless argument, basically you shouldn't take free shit as a given and carry your own tools like a real man
well thanks for the pro-tip, chuckles. what are you doing later today? yelling at blind folks who forgot their white pointy sticks in thier other trousers?