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Greetings folks,
Thanks to one and all who turned out for this one - it was great!!!
I really enjoyed it. Everything looked so beautiful all frosty and white, it was a good sensible pace in that cold and wind and yeah it was just a good night...
Highlights for me were the car that inisited on pulling passed us in Hammersmith? who then got caught again by the lights only to be surrounded by us LFGSS cyclists again, oh and reaching Big Ben for midnight. I had to leave at that point as Timderella had to get home.
30.92 miles on the clock for me and a good night's sleep afterwards.
Thanks again John for another very well organised ride.
Bon voyage Corny.
Peace and Love to one and all,
Tim -
yeah, that was a sweet first ride of the year. cheers john for putting it together and keeping the pace and the stops just right.
like tim above getting into parliament square for big ben to chime twelve was brilliant. like tim, the slash i took there was welcome too. unlike tim, my piss wasn't a political statement ;)
turned out to be a very still and peaceful night to hit the blacktop on. good to see everyone had wrapped up well and like mashton i was plenty warm, even during the brief stops.
cheers to the souths crew for the nice spin over to kew too.
@ mashton, if you make it to souths later will happily share my lock with you dude
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Useless with names (and faces). Who had the custom made old school lights with LEDs? Love to get some of those.
That was me. Get yourself a set of the old Sturmey Archer lights, and I can work some magic. You pay for parts, and the beer I drink while I make them...
Bear in mind, you might have to wait, uni work comes first, and the battery life is bad. I get 5-6 hours from the front, not sure about the rear, only just finished it.
Front runs on 3 AAA batteries. You might have problems with them falling out of the holder, I'm using a holder from an old head torch, sadly, I don't have more than one broken head torch to use parts from...
I'm still trying to think of a way of holding batteries in... I used rubber bands to start with, 26" inner tube is better... -
at your service.
taking requests (genre, themes, leave the speakers at home) for the next one....the music was great!! really enjoying the reggae ...
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Great ride!
Sorry for the late reply and apologies Ma3kster for not thanking you for making it happen before we parted ways.
Nice ride down from the C&H as well, and nice riding with you again at the end Matt on the way back down Coldharbour lane.
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convert hipster into English
just cos a breh was born in camberwell in 86 digs hiphop and fresh beats and rates ridin fixed and joins a forum i get accused of being a fuckin 'hipster' !£%$^
wtf man - hipsters in my view ride multifuckin colour coded freewheelin bitch ass bikes with floppy front/short sides hair doo's tight jeans the bloody indie fuckin coke heads...
watch out you might sleep with one.ne way ...nuff o' dat.
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just cos a breh was born in camberwell in 86 digs hiphop and fresh beats and rates ridin fixed and joins a forum i get accused of being a fuckin 'hipster' !£%$^
wtf man - hipsters in my view ride multifuckin colour coded freewheelin bitch ass bikes with floppy front/short sides hair doo's tight jeans the bloody indie fuckin coke heads...
watch out you might sleep with one.ne way ...nuff o' dat.
I wouldn't know where to begin correcting this one. I would certainly hyphenate "bitch-ass", though.
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just cos a breh was born in camberwell in 86 digs hiphop and fresh beats and rates ridin fixed and joins a forum i get accused of being a fuckin 'hipster' !£%$^
wtf man - hipsters in my view ride multifuckin colour coded freewheelin bitch ass bikes with floppy front/short sides hair doo's tight jeans the bloody indie fuckin coke heads...
watch out you might sleep with one.ne way ...nuff o' dat.
I live in Camberwell but I haven't learned the "street talk" that is all
no dissin ya get me? ;)
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just cos a breh was born in camberwell in 86 digs hiphop and fresh beats and rates ridin fixed and joins a forum i get accused of being a fuckin 'hipster' !£%$^
wtf man - hipsters in my view ride multifuckin colour coded freewheelin bitch ass bikes with floppy front/short sides hair doo's tight jeans the bloody indie fuckin coke heads...
watch out you might sleep with one.ne way ...nuff o' dat.
dig, you made my sucks english even more sucks, haha, i was lucky the other night you talked to me so clearly, i've studied in camberwell for one year and haven't learned the "street talk" that is all as well ^J^
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just cos a breh was born in camberwell in 86 digs hiphop and fresh beats and rates ridin fixed and joins a forum i get accused of being a fuckin 'hipster' !£%$^
wtf man - hipsters in my view ride multifuckin colour coded freewheelin bitch ass bikes with floppy front/short sides hair doo's tight jeans the bloody indie fuckin coke heads...
watch out you might sleep with one.ne way ...nuff o' dat.
Internecine hipster wars are fun. ;)
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I wouldn't know where to begin correcting this one. I would certainly hyphenate "bitch-ass", though.
Boo, pedantry fail. Someone's clearly not putting enough work into their alias. It's not that hard to correct, you just take each issue at a time. G'wan, the forum expects. :)
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just cos a breh was born in camberwell in 86 digs hiphop and fresh beats and rates ridin fixed and joins a forum i get accused of being a fuckin 'hipster' !£%$^
wtf man - hipsters in my view ride multifuckin colour coded freewheelin bitch ass bikes with floppy front/short sides hair doo's tight jeans the bloody indie fuckin coke heads...
watch out you might sleep with one.ne way ...nuff o' dat.
Translation:
So, Gentlemen, you would like to assume that simply because a fellow was born in the area of Camberwell, in the year of 1986; That very same young chap enjoys the hip hop genre of music and greatly enjoys the recreational use of fresh beats and gleans great enjoyment, merryment and fun from riding a fixed gear bicycle, that said gentleman and fellow should be a hipster of the most foul nature.
Gentlemen, I would propose to you that your opinions on what constitutes a hipster are not only warped, but greatly insulting.
I would like to clarify the fact that hipsters travel around using gaudily coloured cycles, consisting of poorly matched, colour coordinated parts. It is also worth noting that the aforementioned cycles are of the freewheel variety, and are thus, obviously inferior. It should be noted that the riders of these cycles often have a particular hairstyle, i.e. that which consists of floppy, slightly long front, with clipped, neat sides. They can often be seen wearing tightly fitted denim trousers. I would also like to point out, that in my view, hipsters are also fans of music of the so-called indie genre, as well as being avid consumers of the drug known as coke.I feel that I should warn you, for your own good to be careful. If you are not, you may be entrapped into the often fatal act of sleeping with one.
Thank you very much for your time, gentlemen, shall we carry on with our other conversation?
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Very good. You might want to make the 'that' after the semicolon lower case, change 'most foul' to 'foulest', correct 'merryment', hyphenate 'poorly matched', 'colour coordinated', and 'tightly fitted', decide whether you want to separate 'obviously' with commas or not, insert 'a' before 'floppy', move the wrongly-placed comma after 'point out', place 'indie' and 'coke' in inverted commas, and insert the missing comma after 'your own good'. :)
And you made that bit about 'often fatal' up yourself. :)
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Boo, pedantry fail. Someone's clearly not putting enough work into their alias. It's not that hard to correct, you just take each issue at a time. G'wan, the forum expects. :)
Very well. However, as efforts have been made to clarify already, perhaps I should turn my attention to the latest version of the text?
Translation:
So, Gentlemen, you would like to assume that simply because a fellow was born in the area of Camberwell, in the year of 1986; That very same young chap enjoys the hip hop genre of music and greatly enjoys the recreational use of fresh beats and gleans great enjoyment, merryment and fun from riding a fixed gear bicycle, that said gentleman and fellow should be a hipster of the most foul nature.
Gentlemen, I would propose to you that your opinions on what constitutes a hipster are not only warped, but greatly insulting.
I would like to clarify the fact that hipsters travel around using gaudily coloured cycles, consisting of poorly matched, colour coordinated parts. It is also worth noting that the aforementioned cycles are of the freewheel variety, and are thus, obviously inferior. It should be noted that the riders of these cycles often have a particular hairstyle, i.e. that which consists of floppy, slightly long front, with clipped, neat sides. They can often be seen wearing tightly fitted denim trousers. I would also like to point out, that in my view, hipsters are also fans of music of the so-called indie genre, as well as being avid consumers of the drug known as coke.I feel that I should warn you, for your own good to be careful. If you are not, you may be entrapped into the often fatal act of sleeping with one.
Thank you very much for your time, gentlemen, shall we carry on with our other conversation?
Firstly, it is merriment, not merryment. Also, repetition of the words enjoy and gentlemen in the first paragraph grates slightly, and does not scan well - although this is hardly of concern for one hunting out errors in spelling and grammar.In the second paragraph, I would always hyphenate colour-coordinated for clarity of reading.
Your use of the abbreviation i.e. is not strictly appropriate. It stands for "id est", Latin for “that is”, so the sentence should read, “… a particular hairstyle, i.e. a floppy, slightly…”.
Your first sentence in the third paragraph is missing the closing comma of the passive clause, and therefore loses all meaning.
I could go on, but I tire of the task at this point.
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2010-01-09 Sat - The Frozen Bridges - Winter Edition - VIII - West to East
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I had a really nice ride last night, totally didn't realise it was over when it was over. I thought it was just another little stop and was ready to put in more miles...
Luckily I had a long ride back to Putney which I got to share with Morgasm, Dropout and Robert Parker, and of course Owen for part of the journey.
Nice hot bagel and a beer after a leisurely ride up to London's famous Lane of Bricks was a good way to close the night.