Chocky

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• For Sale: Raleigh Dyna Tech 401 ti road frame

  in Complete bikes and frame & forks • 12 years, 9 months

  

  Looks tasty, what's on it?

• Review of Xena 210 alarmed D-lock

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• Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 10 months

  

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/feb/03/egypt-protesters-head-protection-helmets

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/feb/03/egypt-protesters-head-protection-helmets#/?picture=371390050&index=3

  My kind of peaceful protest - lobbing wedges of stilton and stale bread rolls.

• Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 2 months

  

  I'm getting more and more into Belgian beers. Just got back from a little trip to Edingurgh, stubled upon a fantastic german pub called The Brauhaus, photos to follow shortly!

  You need to go to the Belgian Monk in Norwich if you're ever up that way. Evenings end early on the 11% Roland Klokke.

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 14 years, 2 months

  

  as for japanese i seen women leave their purses / handbags on tables in cafes and go to the ladies in shinjuku , tokyo ........am shocked by this but nice to know people have trust in society ..the problem is they come here and are robbed within 5 mins :(

  I used to leave my iphone to secure my table or seat at the bar in Tokyo. It's a lovely place for that kind of behaviour. One time I left my custom-built fixie locked up outside my office in the centre of town while I went to work, and then when I came to ride home much much later found that it had fallen over because I'd actually not locked it to anything just put the (cheap-ass) cable lock around the fence and not through the frame.

• South East beers - Tuesdays @ The Roebuck, SE1 4YG

  in Social • 14 years, 2 months

  

  Take this shit to the bikes and fixing forum, bitches!

  WHO'S FOR BEER..?!??

  Just back from three weeks in San Francisco and Tokyo. Probably sounds like hipster heaven, but unless your skinny-jeaned fantasy is all day meetings, windowless offices and long haul economy flights it wasn't. So, beers. Plus I owe Balki some handprinted wallpaper. Balki: beers?

• Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 4 months

  

  

  Oh god, cows & cows & cows

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY
  

• What is the most authentic place to ride?

  in General • 14 years, 4 months

  

  I for one am almost in tears. The piece is redolent with the conflicts and tensions inherent in the whole superhighway scheme, and it's almost overpoweringly poignant.

• Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 4 months

  

  Well with the GBBF now on, now is probably the time to organise an ale-up.

• Ways not to lock your bike

  in General • 14 years, 5 months

  

  Do you a-holes "hear" what mattty "said"? My cunting squared lock is 24mm+ in thickness, in diameter measurement.

  Only if you cut it diagonally. If you cut it square on then it's 18mm the whole way down, unlike a circular cross section which starts off thin and reaches 18mm at the widest point. If effort is a function of the total amount of metal you have to abrade, then your lock is 27% more demanding than an 18mm diameter circular cross section: 18mm squared for yours, versus pi * 9mm squared for a circular lock.