Brick Lane Market

looking for a complete new set-up, it worth coming up to london for the market?
newb question but i'm rarely in london so know very little of this kind of thing, thanks.

important things you should know about that place...

1. 90% of the shit sold there is nicked
   2.everything is nicked
   3.the people who sell stuff there steal stuff
   4.its all bloody nicked.
   

The market? What to buy stolen bits? I can't see any reason why anyone would want to travel from out of town to go to fuckin Brick Lane!!!!?

a thousand times - NO, don't fund the thieving scum

for your budget try Jos at Tourdeville or Roberto on the forum - you'll get a decent set up and a clean conscience :^]

Have you tried Evans or a normal cycle shop?

Brick Lane Market would seem to be sourced largely by stolen bikes. There are bands of upset former owners who go around following people buying bikes at the market and giving them a good hiding for fuelling this kind of economy. On top of that, the druggies who nick the bikes in the first place tend to draw a fair bit of attention to ultimately get fed bad crack and die. Therefore, anyone buying from Brick Lane Market is, by extension, pretty much responsible for murder.

In short - BRICK LANE = Good for fuck all - even curry!

In short - BRICK LANE = Good for fuck all - even curry!

not entirely true...it attracts A class trendoids.

...........and trendy Scandinavians

and bagels, they're good, although someone seems to have stolen the middle.

if you want your bike kicked in for free...lock it up down brick lane. "this is brick lane mate!"

...........and trendy Scandinavians

I do love trendy Scandinavians, worth the price of a pair of skinny jeans and lovely sweatervest any day.

this is a beigel my friend…

and bagels, they're good, although someone seems to have stolen the middle.

Crackheads sell them as wheels in Brick Lane Bikes Market

That's the one.

Brick Lane Market would seem to be sourced largely by stolen bikes. There are bands of upset former owners who go around following people buying bikes at the market and giving them a good hiding for fuelling this kind of economy. On top of that, the druggies who nick the bikes in the first place tend to draw a fair bit of attention to ultimately get fed bad crack and die. Therefore, anyone buying from Brick Lane Market is, by extension, pretty much responsible for murder.

all true except they're not all druggies, most are "professional" (i use the term in it's loosest possible sense) bike thieves.

yep brick lane salt beef bagels possibly the only point of going there...yum...

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The may be professionals, but every man jack of them is on drugs. You can't even get a job there if you aren't wound up so fucking tight on crack that you'd pawn an areoowspokc just to rub the hot end of a pipe on your eyeball.

Close Up is the place to get your rental dvd's, top notch selection and great staff knowledge. Other than that, it's populated by utter twats.

Brick Lane is possibly the most over-rated part of London.

And its rating is pretty low.

the only reason to go to brick lane is to laugh at hipsters trying too hard to be cool, to admire the georgian architecture and the hawksmoor church the remaining environs are just ephemeral urban filth masquerading as cultural interest for the visually unaware.

and the salt beef bagels

with a cup of minestrone soup.

Yeh, those visually unaware bastards. Probably couldn't write in a tone of smug superiority to save their lives.