Look what I bought today...

Anyway, I'm off now for my 24 minute 'legal' ride from Gunnersbury to Victoria station. Fast enough for ya, Hippy?

No idea how fast that is.. (edit: 26.4kph according to google maps) but I do know 24min ain't long enough.. no lady will be happy with a 24 minute performance..

hippy Airnimals start at £1k! No way I'm buying a folder that's more expensive than all my other bikes.

Don't forget the Joey at £650ish (http://www.spacycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m1b41s19p178)

Just cos you ride a Joey don't mean you are one ;) PS. Not a reference to baby marsupials.

Geez Skip, are you alright?!
What's that Skip, three tourists are trapped down a mine? And it's about to explode?!
You take the helicopter Skip and I'll go get the Park Ranger.

is this really a 2 page conversation about bromptons?

have we entered the realms of fiction here?

can this really be true?

S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

(never from this abyss has anyone ever returned alive)

Peejay, did you get bullied by a Brompton as a child?

no. no. no. yes, maybe, perhaps. no.

i don't like them. they make me think of estate agents.

Yeah, they're not good for long distances - nor are they very fast, but they are supremely practical, and that's really what bicycles are about (to me).

And nice girls ride them in the summertime!

they are supremely practical, and that's really what bicycles are about (to me)

ahh, you see, that may well be where we differ.

How can you not ride for practicality reasons?

Exercise combined in daily commute = practical (no need for gym)
Lock up anywhere you like = practical (no parking permits/fines/looking for a spot/C-charge)
No petrol costs = practical (well, speaks for itself innit)
Take it into the building with you = practical (so it won't get stolen/wet/vandalized)
Fixed wheel = practical ( less maintanence, etc etc)

i know. i was advocated happy medium betwixt practicality and aesthetics.

:P

Yeah.

lpg Peejay, did you get bullied by a Brompton as a child?

A Langster and a Brompton ganged up on him.....

and a Mr. Bob Jackson came and saved him.

It was his very own Dumbledore... (:p)

:D

hippy Geez Skip, are you alright?!
What's that Skip, three tourists are trapped down a mine? And it's about to explode?!
You take the helicopter Skip and I'll go get the Park Ranger.

I watched that show once whilst coming down off 3 trips (I think they were Bart Simpsons, summer '93):

HE CAN ACTUALLY TALK.

No shit dude! It's an Australian secret. For ein erz think we make fun of Skippy but he's actually our true head of state and has been running the country since 1962.
How do you think the AUD keeps gaining on the USD and Stirling? It's not coz we are working harder, hell no! It's coz Skip has made us some sweet deals..

brett [quote]lpg Peejay, did you get bullied by a Brompton as a child?

A Langster and a Brompton ganged up on him.....[/quote]

I was raped by a Raleigh Budgie when I was a child.

eehhhh (or whatever!)
You work next door to me!

I have a new respect for Bromptons after being overtaken by one on the PBP this year. I was doing about 30mph in the pissing rain, taking it easy and this guy shot past me at about 35+. Mind you though it could well have been because he had no brakes at all!

peejay78 is this really a 2 page conversation about bromptons?

have we entered the realms of fiction here?

can this really be true?

S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

(never from this abyss has anyone ever returned alive)

we're not all uncultured here peejay:
Either you're referring to Dante's inferno (which btw i have read) or The love song of j. alfred prufrock (T.S. Eliot) on which i did my coursework.

However i did have to check how to spell prufrock! Both are on my shelf incidentally. ( i'm quite important- I have many leather bound books, and my apartment smells of deep mahogany)

also try and internet translate the passage. it is high-larious!

eyebrows However i did have to check how to spell prufrock! Both are on my shelf incidentally. ( i'm quite important- I have many leather bound books, and my apartment smells of deep mahogany)

With your username and that description.. are you the Aussie prime minister? If you ride fixed, please be explaining your car-friendly, un-green policies!!

Do they have no-one else to take over? He was in charge when I moved there in '99!!!!!

no- sadly.
Instead i'm htay- just with a changed name- to a nickname from my bleach-blond days.

however speaking of australia-
The best thing i've found on youtube atm ( new zealands 4th most popular folk parody group)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk