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your right fred, I got a bit carried away, mostly through being very very pissed off about the whole thing and probably went too far.

The whole intention of the post was to tell people to write down the serial number on their bikes, and to have a look inside BLB because one was found their recently. The rest of it, though true, is me just being being a dick.

I don't feel like it's my story to tell, Martin, but I guess you know it for yourself by now anyways.

Look, I know this is absolutly not what anyone wants to hear, but check inside Brick Lane Bikes.

It was actually confirmed to me recently that they bought a mates stolen bike, and wern't terribly keen to give it back to her. (EDIT, as a btw, they did give it back and they didn't charge her for it, so they do get a few bonus points)

I know i've made a big point of saying how much I dislike BLB, but this had nothing to do with my shitty customer service over-charging incident, this is alot bigger and alot worse.

ummm....

of course I like seeing girls on bikes.

can we see some girls on bikes without having to make the obligatory comments about how cute they are (and yes, I think they are too)?

When are we going to give some credit to girls just because they ride hard?

For pete's sake, I know at lease one of those girls can rock a wheelie in a mean way, and it would have been nice to get some action photos of some girls in traffic doing some decent riding, not just petering along in the sun. I thought Huck was a sports mag?

Mr brown, I will be out tomorrow, but as a civilian. I put my brake in a drawer for a few months so that I can afford to maintain my new luxury radio 4 lifestyle.

Feel free to shout abuse and high five me whilst I'm out shopping tomorrow. You can find me in front of the vegan caviar in harrod's.

Well, allow me to wave my dick around a bit.

January is the worst month to be a courier. There is no work, the weather is shit, and everyone is grumpy.

I've heard stories of blokes getting 150 quid a week for five days, but that has never been my experience. That said I reckon I'm one of the better paid ladies out there, and i'm not breaking 400 a week very often ( I'm also not working 5 days very often, but there you go).

My opinion? Trail a courier for a day if you know one, then talk to a company with a garentee and lie through your teeth about your experience.

Oh yeah, speaking of well made and moderatly priced...

http://www.myspace.com/trashmessengerbags

Plus they're called trash bags. How cool is that?

How on earth has someone not mentioned Zo Bags? This is the bag design that tumbuktu and crumpler copied, pretty much the original messenger bag. And they rock.

I've been lucky enough to win a couple of bags, a Baily Works, a Bag Jack and my work bag, a PAC.

I love the pac. It balances everything out perfectly, I don't have shoulder trouble and it's still a convient swing bag. Would I buy one if I didn't have to haul things for a living? Probably not.

The Bag Jack that I have is a back pack, it's huge, water proof and pretty slick with lots of nice features like a removeable lining and a pocket that you can move around as well.

I really really dislike the baily works. Part of the problem is that it's an extra large and I don't have enough upper body to support it, so it kinda wraps over my shoulder. it has no padding, and the ones that I've seen that people have worked with tend to have a cracked inner lining.
The one I have is a special prize bag though, and through pride I still use it to haul my portfolio around.

Excellent to hear, mr. object.

Jaquie informed me a few nights ago that Morrison's best whiskey is now being made by some posh scottish distillery, so expect a few bottles of that to be flouting around.

Oh, and MERRY CHRISTMAS all you wonderful bike people!

I"m pretty good about alot of stuff, but admitedly do turn a blind eye occationaly. I have a 5% rule, if something has less than five percent of something that isn't vegan, and I'm having a hard time finding something else to eat or drink, then I shrug my shoulders and have some anyways. I do alot for animals and the environment by makeing the choices that I make the rest of the time, I don't feel bad about cheating sometimes.

That being said, whiskey and most of the other hard stuff is vegan, so my Birthday should be 100% animal free.

and tasty.

Hey y'all,

for those of you that are in town on boxing day, I normally have a large birthday bash/ pizza party.

All are welcome, but you need to bring one vegan pizza topping with you. We then make as many weird pizza combinations as we can until all the whiskey is gone and we can't possibly eat any more food.

I live at 113 Shacklewell lane, e8, and the oven will be on from half 7.

See you there!

Let me know how you get on with it if you do get one.

I have a pearson from the 60's. It's lovely but it has some crazy geometry. Really long top tube, really high bottom bracket.... it sorta looks like a cadilac.

eyebrows, if you see me today and you don't yell something at me (very loudly) then I will be disapointed.

High Holborn around 9.30 this morning, red frame with a polo mallet taped to the top tube.

That would be Wee Scot.

was it an unhappy looking merckx?

I"m not sure which I would find more shocking if presented with a choice, opening up a thread about cars (you know, my natural enemies) written by other cyclists or opening up a thread that started with a picture of a naked sailor swabbing the decks.

I admit I do find this thread to be a bit like a car crash.... I'm not sure why i'm looking at it, but I can't seem to stop staring. That said I had a 65 baja beatle untill I hit a cyclist with it. True story.

Just a mouse would appear to be just a fat cat.

I stepped out in front of a cyclist and all I got was this permanent facial scaring

Oliver,
I'm a courier and have been for several years.

I ride assertivly. I spend 9-10 hours a day in traffic 4-5 days a week. I understand traffic well, where people are most likely to step out, when cars are most likely going to turn with out signaling, when buses are going to swerve into me. I understand this because it is my job to understand this.

Most of the people that are stepping out into me aren't confused. They are distracted, they didn't think that there could possibly be a bike on the other side of that car....etc etc, in other words they didn't think.

To be honest, the shirt isn't an effort to educate and inform, at the end of the day if someone is stupid enough to step into traffic without looking, then I really don't care what they think about my t-shirt.
I think it's kind of a way to bring fun to something really really frustrating in my job... and unlike allot of job related frustrations, this can physically harm me.

Besides, do I really want to live in a completely pc world where everyone goes out of their way to not offend each other?

Pfs. Fact

i could use a new hobby and something to do on standby time, actually

I don't know if I agree with you, oliver.

I"ve tried being nice and explaining to people that they need to look first, or that using the zebra crossing that's only a few metres away would be alot safer for everyone, but that generaly gets me ignored, and occationaly gets me sworn at.

I'm a polite person by nature, but I feel like screaming at a person that steps out in front of me might be rude, but in the long run maybe it will make a bigger impact and they won't do it again.

Besides that, I wear a PAC bag and so most people won't be reading my t-shirt when I'm on the road, mostly when I'm not on my bike for whatever reason. Call it a conversation starter.

As a by the way, the best speech i've ever heard given to a pedestrian was by my mate Bambi in New York. This woman steps out in front of him and he just barely manages to not hit her, partly by putting his arm out and grabbing her.
once stoppeed he looks deeply into her eyes and says "Look, I'll make you a deal. You don't step into traffic without looking, I won't go onto the sidewalk and start randomly punching people. OK?"

A quick poll-

I've made a few t-shirts that have a heart on them, and in the middle of the heart in girly handwriting (with hearts for the tops of "i"'s and everytthing)
they say "Dear Pedestrian, if you step out in front of me I'll break your face. XoXo, Ms Attack"

Is this in poor taste, or is it funny?

Including the guestimation of tubes and patches, 1200 this year.

But I have bought two new bikes this year, plus a load of other fun stuff for the new bikes.

And this isn't including my travel costs to Paris, Eindhoven and Glasgow, which were entirely bike related events.

Hey, this is a great idea, a good way to play with people's strength and to have a few god days out.

The good news is this wouldn't take that much organizing.

One track day, one long distance ride, one alley cat, one rollapoluza event and one trix event.

If everything was themed as to the classic days of cycling, this could be a fantastic and old-timey thing to keep doing through out 2009.

I'd be up for helping to organize this.

Not good times to be a messenger.

Indeed. Can someone remind me what it is ado for a job again? I used t think I delivered packages...Now I seem to be doing polar bear impressions (hanging out in the cold and becoming an endangered species, not becoming a hermaphradite).

Saw Juliet Yesterday on shaftsbury, saw mayself today on the ground. God damn road bikes.