Spotted...

How much do you recon the glass of water costs ts replace?
Nothing, it's water.

Nhatt, I like your thinking.
Can I ask you to persuade Thames Water to see your argument?
The fuckers charge me a fortune for water and they get pretty much all of it back once I have used it.

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)?

Nhatt - they are real, cheap too!

Now i wonder if i can get one that fits track nuts for extra hipster points...

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.

Pink appollos!! hahahaha!!!

Nhatt, I like your thinking.
Can I ask you to persuade Thames Water to see your argument?
The fuckers charge me a fortune for water and they get pretty much all of it back once I have used it.

Ha!

(just don't pay it like me, they can't cut you off)

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?!!!

That's me you pleb :P Why haven't you been climbing?

Selective quoting, neil.
Just be glad you don't pay by the glass... Yet.

The lovely Jacqui by 14 this afternoon.

Hello.

Last time I was at halfords peckham the guy gave me a couple of cable ties for free, but whispered "just don't let anyone see that" as if he'd get in trouble.

Hello Darling, lovely to see you too!

Last time I was at halfords peckham the guy gave me a couple of cable ties for free, but whispered "just don't let anyone see that" as if he'd get in trouble.

nice. must just be brixton where they employ ornery, tedious, jobsworth knob-trundlers.

/cable ties? pourquoi?

Today i met a LFGSS cap wearing, pearced nosed, fixie skidder on his way from Stratford to liverpool st.. forgotten your name but nice to talk this a.m.

Catford, I'm mostly with Nhatt on that one and wanted to illustrate that her point of "getting in trouble" is a real possibility.

Cableties are awesome, man!

hey, i'm with you both on that too, hoss - as i said in a previous post, i can understand it being an issue of treading on company policy toes, however you (ie the chap behind the counter) needs to say as much, in this particular instance my request was met with the worst sort of sneering, obstinate contempt which is what i took exception to.

cableties... are you a debt collector by any chance?

but lmnh doesn't allow you to make you're own coffee.

Heck, I work at lmnh and they don't let me make my own coffee.

Catfood, you were probably being a resonable guy asking a not unreasonable request. But, as someone who also works at a bike shop in Brixton, we get a lot of screamers, demanders and our fair share of the self entitled.

I have been less than my friendly self to the dude who came in to ask for something after the dude who came in to scream until he got free shit, and I'm paid well and care about my job.
I'm sorry to hear you got the fall out from someone who, and let's be honest, isn't paid enough to care on a day when you were less prepared than you should have been. But it happens, I don't know if I personally would go on an Internet forum to bitch about it, but here we are.

Let's move on, possibly a little wiser about punctures, customer service and expectations.

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

my first spot.

i've finally arrived.
next stop east drinks!

amen to that my nubian sister. and to be fair, i take my share of the responsibility what with stepping out minus a toolkit in my back pocket - spose in the back of my mind i harnessed my hopes to the not entirely unreasonable expectation that in the event of a minor mechanical meltdown, the hospitable, good natured and much appreciated service a good 99% of lbs's proffer with a smile will come to my rescue, a service im sure we've all partaken of more than once in our time on the roads - obviously this isnt the case when it comes to the brixton branch of halfords. tho they do have a fine selection of pine-scented air fresheners.

live n learn. moving on.

edit - ps. this whole messy situation coulda been avoided if brixton cycles was sodding well open of a sunday! ;)

my first spot.

i've finally arrived.
next stop east drinks!

i saw someone on a cinelli wearing a flat-peaked baseball cap at angel this morning. there may or may not have been spokkage. double spot?

my first spot.

i've finally arrived.
next stop east drinks!
I thought you would be on here. I rode passed you on a Green frame with FuckTaxis stickers. Black rims (sparkly in the sun) purple drops. I was with a small bag, hoody and jeans. I was going to say something but then decided against it. Next tho!

i saw someone on a cinelli wearing a flat-peaked baseball cap at angel this morning. there may or may not have been spokkage. double spot?

Is saw that guy on Euston/Marylebone road this morning. King of the hipsters

Is saw that guy on Euston/Marylebone road this morning. King of the hipsters

Ble and white bike with while rear 'spok? I have seen this guy a couple of times (waering yellow tinted aviators and a sweat band) nailing it down Balls Pond Road and once very nearly into the back of a pick up. Think I saw him this morning with his bike laying on the floor.

Green frame with FuckTaxis stickers. Black rims (sparkly in the sun) purple drops.

That bike sounds horrific! ;-)

That bike sounds horrific! ;-)
not as bad as a purple sparkly frame with DEEP white rim back wheel, supercard(tm) front wheel and an ogre riding it!

They both sound as bad as each other tbh.

waering yellow tinted aviators and a sweat band

christ