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velocity boy [quote]Soweto888 When I got to my accommodation on Monday, I shut the door behind me and put on the kettle. I was pretty sure I was safe from the traffic, but then I discovered that I could make my hanky go black by blowing my nose... Now that can't be good, can it?
That wasn't the traffic. You went on the tube too didn't you. Northern Line by any chance?
The black snot is the dirt and grime that you breathe in travelling underground, not the stuff that you breathe in when you're on the streets above.[/quote]
Mostly the Central Line, to be honest, although I was on the Northern Line on the first and worst day. By Wednesday I'd had quite enough of the tube's spacious carriages and friendly, polite passengers. I opted to wear out some shoe leather and walked about for the whole day instead. I still had the black hanky at the end of it. I dunno, maybe I need to clip my nasal hair less. :-P
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if you stand at one end of a platform and look down the other end it's always a bit fuzzy because of the airborn particles of carbon, dust, dead skin, and grease floating in the air. the tube network does have a machine that cleans as it passes through the tunnels but it was out of service for a couple of months which TFL tried to keep quiet.
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le car London is easy I think, most drivers (including cabbies) are well-mannered and courteous. Paris is a bit more intense (less space, more scooters, mad peds), and I guess places like Cairo or Bogota bust be even worse...
but mainly: who still uses HANKYs in 2007??
Paris, is a fucking laugh, now of course we got strikes and velib's to deal with as well as the usual mayhem, I love it
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tynan [quote]the-smiling-buddha Still need to figure out how to cut of the brase-ons
without buggering the paint or the frame
[/quote]I am going to need something more than a file, I am pondering attack the brake mounts with a dremel, I'd hate for it to slip though and mark the stays, so I'll probably wait until I have bought a proper bike stand,so I can work on it properly
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London air is good for YOU
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the-smiling-buddha I am going to need something more than a file, I am pondering attack the brake mounts with a dremel, I'd hate for it to slip though and mark the stays, so I'll probably wait until I have bought a proper bike stand,so I can work on it properly
The trick here is to put zero pressure on the dremel, don't push, let the dremel do the work - but to be safe wrap the area around where you are doing your surgery with thick duct tape.
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dont forget the most important ingredient...asbestos
i work in the london underground. they're everywhere. wont be surprised if asbestos dust is airborne in some areas
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tynan [quote]the-smiling-buddha I am going to need something more than a file, I am pondering attack the brake mounts with a dremel, I'd hate for it to slip though and mark the stays, so I'll probably wait until I have bought a proper bike stand,so I can work on it properly
The trick here is to put zero pressure on the dremel, don't push, let the dremel do the work - but to be safe wrap the area around where you are doing your surgery with thick duct tape.
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thats it, work stand and tape it up with duct tape, might give it a go fella, got to get a stand though
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cornelius blackfoot ... you get the horn a bit more, and some strange looks - well I did when i used to ride up in newcastle when i studied there.
You think my home town turns you on? No wonder you used to get strange looks.
Joking aside, Geordies are probably more likely to toot in the vindictive hope that you'd poo yer keks with fright.
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It's interesting to see your point of view - I moved to London at the end of September for uni, and started cycling after a couple of weeks. Prior to that I used to cycle everyday on the roads to my job/college, and I'd say the drivers back home were worse than London simply because they were going so much faster and weren't used to cyclists.
Like others here, I like the traffic. I get a kick out of finding the quickest route through without killing myself, and you learn to somehow guess what drivers are going to do next and learn to recognise situations where you could potentially get hurt. As well, as it's already been said, riding on the left hand side by kerb is, I'd say in heavy-ish traffic, quite possibly the worst thing you could do.
I've found taxi drivers quite reasonable. I think the majority might have just come to realise there's nothing they can do about us, and we don't want to get hit, they don't want to damage their £30,000 car and just want to get on with their job.
asm Y'know what you said about the hanky going black? That's the tube for you. it's why we're on bikes in the first place!
I vaguely remember a British Medical Journal investigation into air pollutants in London. Turned out you inhaled less pollution on a bike than any other form of transport, even walking, because of your position in relation to the cars. seems strange, I know, might try and find the report...
dogsballs ... most numpty flouro brompton riders don't have any common sense riding a bike in central london!
Hey! I ride a Brompton (not by choice, mind, grrr stupid uni hall rules) and I wear a fluro jacket (stupid dark months!) and I'm not a numpty rider :)
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Hey! I ride a Brompton ... and I wear a fluro jacket ... and I'm not a numpty rider :)You seem to be ticking all the numpty boxes.
Any more we can tick off ;)BTW, I too would rather look like a tit and be warm/dry/visible any day. Screw fashion statements, they're so last season!
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Hahaha it's really hard not to look like you're trying even when you aren't trying on a Brompton.
Nah, I haven't been anywhere near Waterloo Bridge. In fact I don't think I've ever been over there.
My usual route is Fulham Palace Road -> Lille Road --> Old Brompton Road --> Exhibition Road and back again.
ChrisNW BTW, I too would rather look like a tit and be warm/dry/visible any day. Screw fashion statements, they're so last season!
Yeah, exactly. I look even more of a tit with my Buff pulled over my head and then pulled up from under my chin over my face, but I'm so warm :) I'm a student, too poor to buy Rapha so I can look good on a bike!
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Yeah, exactly. I look even more of a tit with my Buff pulled over my head and then pulled up from under my chin over my face, but I'm so warm :) I'm a student, too poor to buy Rapha so I can look good on a bike!
I wear Rapha - I still look like a tit.
The trouble with flouro is that some people who wear it think that that is enough to make them visible and they don't have to take any further responsibility for being seen.
Riding in the gutter, undertaking at junctions and not looking before pulling out makes one a numpty whatever you are wearing.
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stompy [quote]eeehhhh
Yeah, exactly. I look even more of a tit with my Buff pulled over my head and then pulled up from under my chin over my face, but I'm so warm :) I'm a student, too poor to buy Rapha so I can look good on a bike!
I wear Rapha - I still look like a tit.
The trouble with flouro is that some people who wear it think that that is enough to make them visible and they don't have to take any further responsibility for being seen.
Riding in the gutter, undertaking at junctions and not looking before pulling out makes one a numpty whatever you are wearing.[/quote]
Yeah, definitely. They give non-numpty fluro riders like me a bad name!
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