Rapha, nice but a bit pricey?

http://planningaholic.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/the-good-samaritan-levis-help-you-to-keep-your-bottom-dry/

if there's no damage to the bike, what's the bleating about, your bike will probably be more roughly handled as someone tries to lock up beside it.

If you want to leave a spokecard in someone's wheel, for them to see and remove easily, you won't be wedging it in as you would if you wanted to keep it there for a longer period.

seems to me that people are getting their tidy whiteys in a bunch over little or nothing. But if thats your thing carry on...

a new restaurant in cambridge decided to advertise by putting printed saddlecovers on parked bikes, hundreds of them. bit peculiar.

Bet it got noticed though, sounds like quite an original idea to me.

^They do it in the Netherlands.

^^ yeah you still see them about, bright pink and green (mainly colour coded by the 'gender' of the bike). seemed like quite an expensive thing to do but then people are less likely to throw them away - I wasn't going to use mine but my mum wanted it for her bike.

They do all sorts of things in the Netherlans, not all of them are a good idea.

A friend of mines brother, on his stag do in Amsterdam, found this out to his (considerable) disadvantage.

if there's no damage to the bike, what's the bleating about, your bike will probably be more roughly handled as someone tries to lock up beside it.

If you want to leave a spokecard in someone's wheel, for them to see and remove easily, you won't be wedging it in as you would if you wanted to keep it there for a longer period.

seems to me that people are getting their tidy whiteys in a bunch over little or nothing. But if thats your thing carry on...

I think I'm soured to the idea as I've had it done before and it rained so I came out to a load of soggy cardboard jammed in my wheels.

likewise I've had people fold up sandwich cartons and jam them in the saddle rails (someone smoking outside the office rushed in to tell me someone looked like they were trying to steal my saddle).

I'm just of the mindset that if it doesn't belong to you don't fucking touch it.

Greetings folks,
Aside from the should you shouldn't you f**king touch it / spokecard debate.
Their cafe opens on Saturday 8.30 am in Brewer Street.
Good luck to them if it another bike friendly cafe in the centre of town.
Like all things you can take it or leave it.
I guess as thread title suggests it will be nice but a bit pricey.
Peace and Love to one and all,
Tim

They do all sorts of things in the Netherlans, not all of them are a good idea.

A friend of mines brother, on his stag do in Amsterdam, found this out to his (considerable) disadvantage.

He didn't go to one of the "shops" that has a red and blue light shining in the window by any chance did he?

Free coffee spoke cards are fine, those flyers with hooks on that people hang from your handlebars really piss me off though.

^^^ well said tim

Funny business with the Crown Estate, it won't end well

Still using a mouse?

Very 90's.

Yes but it is a Magic Mouse.

you guys seem to be getting awfully upset about a card that gives you free coffee. Who gives a toss? Free coffee is free coffee..

I want a free coffee. Where's my spoke card?

Snap- a card that gave me free decent coffee would save me a fortune.

exactly!

I spend 20 quid a week on coffee, and that's not including buying beans for home.

#idonthaveaproblem

I calculated how much I spend on coffee, this morning. It made me want to cry.

you guys seem to be getting awfully upset about a card that gives you free coffee. Who gives a toss? Free coffee is free coffee..

.

Lydia: You don't have to say nice things to me. It's a bit old fashioned, considering what we're about to do.
Parry: What are we about to do?
Lydia: You're walking me home.
Parry: Uh-huh.
Lydia: I think you're a little attracted to me.
Parry: Yeah.
Lydia: Hmm. You'll probably want to come upstairs for some coffee.
Parry: I don't drink coffee.
Lydia: And we'll probably have a drink and talk and get to know each other a little bit better. Get comfortable. And then you'll.....you'll sleep over. And in the morning, you'll be distant. And you won't be able to stay for breakfast. Maybe just as cup of coffee.
Parry: I don't drink coffee.
Lydia: And then we'll exchange phone numbers and you'll leave. And never call. And I'll go to work and feel so good--for the first hour! And ever so slowly, I'll turn into a piece of dirt. I don't know why I'm putting myself through this. It was really nice to meet you. 'Night. (She runs off down the street)
Parry: 'Night....(a pause, then he runs after her) Excuse me! Wait! Just-hey-sorry, wait, one minute-hey, excuse me! Please wait, wait!
Lydia: No, listen, I'm not feeling very well...
Parry: Well, no wonder. We just met, made love and broke up all in the space of 30 seconds and I don't remember having the first kiss, which I think is the best part.
Lydia: Look, it was so very special to me and I had such a wonderful time...
Parry: (overlapping above) It was to me too. But I think it's time you should shut up now. Shut up please? (she shuts up) I'm not coming up to your apartment. That was never my intention.
Lydia: Ohh God, you don't want to...(embarrassed)
Parry: Oh no, I want to. I have a hard-on for you the size of Florida. But I don't want just one night. I have a confession I have to make to you.
Lydia: You're married?
Parry: No.
Lydia: You're divorced?
Parry: No.
Lydia: You have a disease?
Parry: No, please stop...I'm in love with you.
(Lydia looks at him like he's completely nuts, not believing him. Parry shakes head, puts a hand toward her mouth softly)
Parry:: And not just from tonight. I've known you for a long time. I know you come out from work at noon every day and you fight your way out that door and then you get pushed back in and three seconds later you come back out again. I walk with you to lunch and I know if it's a good day, if you stop and get that romance novel at that bookstore. I know what you order, and I know that on Wednesdays you go to that Dim Sum parlor and I know that you get a jawbreaker before you go back in to work. And I know you hate your job and you don't have many friends and I know sometimes you feel a little uncoordinated and you don't feel as wonderful as everybody else and feeling as alone and as separate as you feel you are...I love you... ...I love you...and I think you're the greatest thing since spice racks and I would be knocked out several times if I could just have that first kiss. And I won't, I won't be distant. I'll come back in the morning and I'll call ya if you let me... But I still don't drink coffee.
(Long pause, Lydia slowly touches Parry's face)
Lydia: You're real...aren't you?
(Parry smiles, and quietly laughs)
(They kiss)

I'd enjoy a free coffee and a free spoke card, my back wheel hasn't been updated in months.

I've paid for 2 coffee's in as many years.

They can cram as many free coffee spoke cards as they want into my wheels, as long as they don't break anything. In fact, if they use my tourer they should be able to fit several thousand into the panniers, no bother.

Hoping to go there often with my not nice and not pricey bike just to make the place look untidy. Er do you think there'll be a smoking area?

Britons spend more on coffee than on charity. Trufax.

Hoping to go there often with my not nice and not pricey bike just to make the place look untidy. Er do you think there'll be a smoking area?

I'm sure there will be, provided you can demonstrate that it makes you suffer.