The Guardian's bike blog

What about those who are totally put off for good by the constant mechanical breakdowns. "Ah man, I did give it a go once before but it kept breaking down and was costing me money to get repaired. You're better off on the bus mate, breaks down you just catch the next one."

That's the point that I tried and failed to get across.

'The Guardian already do '

Tsk...

I know that that's what you were referring to. I really like the 'institutional plural' in English, perhaps too much. :)

That's the point that I tried and failed to get across.

That's why you're not a guardian writer

But as a reader I though I might have picked up some of the technique

But as a reader I though I might have picked up some of the technique

'thought'

Full stop missing, too. :)

Trust Platini to get Schick on a syntax error

The thing is that there's no straightforward grammatical error here. It's just that the 'institutional plural' hasn't become common usage for institutions like the Guardian yet, unlike for others, like the police. It's considered bad style more than anything. I like it, though. :)

Peter,
thanks for joining the best and friendliest cycling forum on the internet.
now,
forum---,
every week the Grauniad weekend has a motoring column review, it would be better as a bike review for everyone,
who would be up for writing a bike review for an OTP and submitting it?, a few hundred words each, there is easily enough talent to do it on here.
dont mess about, go straight to the organ grinder Rusbridger with the idea
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1. Brother
   
2. Me
   
   
   

Roger roger.

I have a friend in Portugal who's name (1st & last) is, Rogerio Rogerio.

Seriously how the fuck is anyone supposed to review the levels of material fatigue on components without robots or machines?

By using crystals and magnets, you fucking cretin.

I rolfed.

The thing is that there's no straightforward grammatical error here. It's just that the 'institutional plural' hasn't become common usage for institutions like the Guardian yet, unlike for others, like the police. It's considered bad style more than anything. I like it, though. :)

Collective nouns are always singular, save for bands and football teams (not football clubs - as companies they are singular).

"MUFC is set to post a massive loss on its debt to profit ratio."

"Everton are doomed to be relegated in 2012."

You're a bit fucking 'that'-happy for my liking, Schixie.

It pains me to say this, because I know how much hyphens give you a boner.

football thread is that way >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

He just wants Pistanator's attention.

football thread is that way >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The BBC is clamping down on twats.

U2 have released a new album that you will love.

He just wants Pistanator's attention.

You can fuck off as well...

I missed you.

Everyone did actually, the spelling lately has been to kill for.

Collective nouns are always singular, save for bands and football teams.

Not true. 'The police announced that they were hoping to make an arrest soon.' There are plenty of other cases where the usage has 'crept' ahead of that old rule. :)

I do agree that it is bad style to be stretching it too far ahead of usage, and, as I said, you're not wrong to pick me up on the Guardian case.

Hm, only managed to get two 'that's into that. Oops, that's two three more. :)

You all sound like brother to me now.

+1
nearly out of cheap red wine

I eat my words. I didn't realize how serious the safety concerns were until I saw that picture. If they don't spot that an obvious safety flaw in that close up a picture, they clearly know not too much about basic bike maintenance.

At work, we have a new shop nearby open up, it's Halfords.

now we've been getting more and more customer who brought a bicycle from Halfords but want us to sort it out properly.

More than half the bicycle Halfords sold are quite dangerously put together, i.e. brake cable wasn't tightening properly which could lean to potential injuries, or even death (especially on the steep hill of Wimbledon).

Luckily a lots of people who brought bike from Halfords are aware of how bad their mechanic generally are, and tend to bring it here instead not minding about paying extra.

If Halfords barely managed to put bicycles together, then I highly doubt that NoLogo will be any better.

^coming from an Evans employee

just sayin...

Lives are in danger.

^coming from an Evans employee

was just about to say the same

Peter, echoing some other comments above, I think that you will find that cheap shit bikes will wear out their welcome very quickly. This country's full of cheap bikes that didn't keep their unfortunate owners riding.

Regarding this, when I had customers coming in the shop, they were all surprised when I told them that their BSO isn't how a normal bicycle should feel.

Their reference of cycling come from BSO and are under the illusion that it's exactly how bicycle generally are.