EKE_38BPM

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• Stolen bikes

  in General • 12 years, 1 month

  

  Sorry to hear this - how was it locked? The Kenton is a bit of a bike theft hotspot. Not helped by the fact that you can't see your bike from inside.

  I did a stupid thing and used my cable lock instead of my d-lock.

  I didn't know it was a theft hot spot, but I can kind of see why. The Kenton's only external camera faces away from where most of the bikes get locked up, the tower blocks nearby don't have any cameras visible and its not exactly a thoroughfare with lots of foot traffic, lots of tower blocks nearby too so lots of cunts looking to take other people's stuff. The Kenton really should allow people to take their bikes into the beer garden. They've lost me as a customer when I'm on the bike.

  I'm still blown away that my bike got nicked and I was able to find it and nick it back, only losing my wheels (which I'm still on the look out for).
  Is it worth going to Brick Lane to look for wheels rather than a whole bike?

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 12 years, 1 month

  

  Some dirty thieving scrote nicked my bike from outside the Kenton pub in Hackney on friday night.https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr...a=ltm&t=m&z=18

  I ride (or more correctly, rode) a Raleigh Record Ace which I converted to fg and the front wheel was a Mavic Aksium with eight reflective stickers on the rim and the rear was a black 40mm deep rim bought from Varno. Both wheels had Maxxis Detonators.

  The reason I'm focussing on the wheels is because I found the bike locked up and I nicked it back!
  When I came out of the pub and saw the lamppost where I locked it devoid of my bike, I charged off down the road looking for it. there must have been some kind of subliminal homing signal because I walked past three tower blocks and onto a big estate about 200 metres away, where I found my bike locked outside a tower block, minus the wheels (and, strangely, the water bottle holder).
  I've looked for them on ebay and gumtree but without any joy. I'd love to get the wheels back and would appreciate you guys keeping an eye out for anyone selling them.

  tl:dr
  Some cunt nicked my wheels.
  Front wheel was a Mavic Aksium with eight reflective stickers on the rim and the rear was a black 40mm deep rim bought from Varno. Both wheels had Maxxis Detonator tyres. Keep an eye out for anyone selling them and let me know.

• Me bike got nicked

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• Me bike got nicked

  in General • 12 years, 1 month

  

  Some dirty thieving scrote nicked my bike from outside the Kenton pub in Hackney on friday night.https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Bentham+Rd&daddr=Hartlake+Rd&hl=en&sll=51.54426,-0.042336&sspn=0.003857,0.009645&geocode=FX6AEgMde1H__w%3BFSyAEgMdj1z__w&dirflg=w&mra=ltm&t=m&z=18

  I ride (or more correctly, rode) a Raleigh Record Ace which I converted to fg and the front wheel was a Mavic Aksium with eight reflective stickers on the rim and the rear was a black 40mm deep rim bought from Varno. Both wheels had Maxxis Detonators.

  The reason I'm focussing on the wheels is because I found the bike locked up and I nicked it back!
  When I came out of the pub and saw the lamppost where I locked it devoid of my bike, I charged off down the road looking for it. there must have been some kind of subliminal homing signal because I walked past three tower blocks and onto a big estate about 200 metres away, where I found my bike locked outside a tower block, minus the wheels (and, strangely, the water bottle holder).
  I've looked for them on ebay and gumtree but without any joy. I'd love to get the wheels back and would appreciate you guys keeping an eye out for anyone selling them.

  tl:dr
  Some cunt nicked my wheels.
  Front wheel was a Mavic Aksium with eight reflective stickers on the rim and the rear was a black 40mm deep rim bought from Varno. Both wheels had Maxxis Detonator tyres. Keep an eye out for anyone selling them and let me know.

• Becoming a Cycle Trainer

  in National Standard Cycle Training • 12 years, 7 months

  

  Does anyone know if bursaries are still available?

• Locks that work

  in Bikes & Bits • 12 years, 10 months

  

  With that Tiger lock, did the guy attack the thin axis of the strip with the fuck off bolt cutters, or just the thick axis? I saw that he attacked the thin axis with tin snips but not the big boys that he had.

  If the strip survived that, I'd be much more interested.

• 2011-12-26 - Rider Down (me), Hyde Park Corner

  in Rider Down • 12 years, 10 months

  

  Sorry to hear that he got away with it. Did you get all of the registration? That could lead to an address and that could lead to a civil case.

  Or something else...

• 2012-02-03 - Rider Down/Fatality, London Wall and Wormwood Street (London)

  in Rider Down • 12 years, 10 months

  

  RIP
  I'll try to make it down on friday.

• Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

  in Bikes & Bits • 13 years, 8 months

  

  Racist, you wouldn't have said that if all the white parts were black.

  That does look so much better, in a Tron kinda way.

• Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

  in Bikes & Bits • 13 years, 8 months

  

  So, if you knew anything about the history of TT bikes, your objection would be a couple of square inches of sticky tape?

  I admit that I know bugger all about TT other than that it stands for Top Trumps.
  I just think that the shifters would mess up the aerodynamics and the forks look wrong (to my modern eyes). If my only valid objection is the lack of a couple of square inches of sticky tape, so be it.
  I do like the front brake behind the fork though. I have wondered why that isn't the standard position for them on all bikes. I've also seen bikes with the rear brake mounted on the chain stay rather than the seat stay and that looks very clean.