humbert&co

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• For Sale: Fixed bike sun workshop vintage

  in Complete bikes and frame & forks • 15 years, 1 month

  

  please may i have a look at this and, if your taking dibs i'll do that too until i get a chance for a butchers..

• Daily Mail in cycling shocker!

  in General • 15 years, 3 months

  

  http://watchwithmothers.net/2007/04/23/sweet-baby-james/

  It seems that others have a similar opinion of James Martin and not just cos he is a cunt to cyclists... check the comments below the blog...

  "food is not sexy, and food is not art. I plan to eat it and shit it, not fuck it or frame it"

  amazing

• Richmond Park = Full of tossers

  in General • 15 years, 3 months

  

  IMy argument is that 90 percent of the lycra wearing fools today were fat, slow and obviously unfit. Posers, in other words..

  mmmm fat guys posing in lycra

• Class of 2009

  in General • 15 years, 3 months

  

  I have never got this whole. Abuse people via the forum thing. Sometimes it is pretty funny but on the whole its bullshit

  wot for like. excesive use of full. stops? but then i haven't been a member since 1948 so i'll shut-tfu

• Sunday Times article - Get off your bike before you’re knocked off.

  in General • 15 years, 4 months

  

  i stopped reading at my hero lord tebbit.. racist c*nt
  that said i do like bicycles and cricket - but then I always preffered enoch powell anyhoo

• Post tension

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• Peds!

  in General • 15 years, 4 months

  

  serios wtf... why is it some people see a bike and go fcking mental? after a post or two about ratcatchers i googled to find out more, read some fairly trite article from the indy, but the guy on a recumbent said outside london where they're less common he's even had sht thrown at him!

  too many of these stories, where do they get off going insane.

• New Charge line-up

  in Bikes & Bits • 15 years, 4 months

  

  Me +2
  I also like the little Cuban/Brazilian/Spanish (never worked out which it is!) bar over the road, especially in the summer.

  The Griffin is not that kind of pub, only one was cuban, the rest eastern European.

• Post tension

  in Bikes & Bits • 15 years, 4 months

  

  Was just thinking about concrete as you do. You can seriously reduce the thickness of a floor slab by running cables through it so when it has been cast you tighten them. Under compression you the tensile strength goes up.

  Would this work on other materials? Could you stiffen a frame by putting the tubes under compression? I'm assuming no or it would have been done but why?

• Draw your own collisions

  in General • 15 years, 4 months

  

  I thought this thread was soliciting drawings, not more fucking reposted photos.

  apologies - my first outing on SPDs saw me upside down in a hedge... it looked a bit like this: