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I've been waiting for the first LFGSS cycle hire alley cat.
We were in the pub the other night when our friend turned up with a couple of keys, so being a bit tipsy decided to take them for a test ride.
Alas it seems short skirts and the hire bikes are not a great mix (or the best ever mix depending on how you look at it), 30 seconds up the road and I nearly crashed from literally crying with laughter:
3 G&T's + Bicycle hire =
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Friends bike Just stolen about 20 minutes ago from Leyland DIY shop in Dalston. It was unlocked but inside.I think the shop has CTTV and I have just reported it to police, but could you keep your ears and eyes open for me.
It is a MBK pink/white/grey frame, fixed/free rear wheel on the freewheel side with pink tyres. It has white drop handlebars which have been repaired with black tape.
most obviously the crank arms are different chrome on one side, black on the other.
if you see it DM me or email robin@spacehijackers.org
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Just picked up by mmccarthy
nice to meet you. Hope you make it that long long journey home
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hello,
I'm not sure at the mo, it's larger than a double, maybe queen size?
I'll try and measure in the morning
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anyone want one?
Just moving into a flat in Kingsland Road and I already have one, so this is going spare
FREE!
must pick up by Sunday at the latest.
bedside tables going too if you fancy them?
Might be able to deliver locally on Saturday morning for £30 (to help pay for my moving van)
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Oh, well, I figured it would be a hard sell on this forum. You can't exactly skid it ;-)
any more offers before it goes on gumtree?
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yes, or even the ape hanger ones for riders of serious lo-pro's
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These are the original bars that come with it, the new 'ape hanger' ones are stupidly long and to be honest wobble a bit as there is so much leverage. So I'll throw these in with the bike and you can decide which you prefer
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For Sale:
My Ridiculous Schwinn Stingray Chopper
£70 ono
I'm moving house and need to clear space, so this has to go.
Looking like a cross between a Harley and a bicycle, with the biggest back wheel ever made, this is a beast. I changed the handlebars from the original ones to make it a bit more badass, however I still have the originals if you want to switch back.
I know it's not the regular sort of bike you'd sell on this forum, however I thought someone here might appreciate it even if for parts for a frankenbike.
I'm 5'10" and it fits me, no idea how to size it though.
buyer collects (have you seen the size of it? I'm not posting)
It's in Limehouse, East London.
more pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristlypioneer/sets/72157614006286554/ -
So I've been putting my thinking hat on.
How about we all pop up some ideas for new spots, then next tuesday 29th June, we meet up at the base of the carpark at 7pm. Then go on a ride to check out the new spots and pick one?
first up I'd suggest Bethnal Green Basket Ball courts:
any more suggestions?
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they are not a council, they are a private corporation.
Therefore they are scared stiff of being sued for public liability.
We've been doing lots of projects with the Space Hijackers about exactly this, and how an influx of private corporations running our cities means that all risk is taken out, and outsiders (such as homeless or in this case cycling hipsters) are pushed out of the way by security.
http://www.spacehijackers.org/html/projects/privatepublic/privatepublic.html
I'm afraid short of offering to sign waivers to say we won't sue, there's not much we can do, and they seem to be more afraid of us hitting cars anyway so I doubt there is anything we can do to make them budge.
we'll just have to find a new neighbour free spot and bribe any security again.
:-(
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Hello,
Just got the email from Tash.
What a pain in the arse, I've missed the last two weeks, so didn't know anything about this. Here are some thoughts.
1) It's run by the corporation of London, which is a private company. We are trespassing and don't have a leg to stand on legally and I'm afraid any kind of ASBO rules etc dont apply. We're basically sneaking into someone's house and up until now they haven't minded. It's not worth using any of the ASB law argument in the email
2) Liability - as has been said, their main concern, once it's raised with the corporation, is probably much more that one of us will hurt ourselves and then sue them. It might be worth offering to sign some disclaimer or having a "use at your own risk" sign put up for the top floor. So that it is clear that we would not need to be covered by any public liability insurance. Alas I get the feeling that the neighbour complaint will just spur the corporation of london on to tighten up on this unauthorised activity.
3) neighbours - when we spoke to the guy incharge of the carpark before he said there was a particular neighbour who 'complains about everything' and "had described you lot as having a riot up here every tuesday'. Alas he didn't point out which one this was. The guy we spoke to seemed pretty even minded about us and was not fussed about us being there. Obviously the neighbour has now taken it higher.
4) it might be worth using the blog that we set up (alas has been abandoned) http://tuesdaynighttrix.blogspot.com/ in any conversation with the council, so that they get an idea of what it is we do. (I'll remove the picture of the boom box).
5) I'm totally willing to be a rep for the night in any conversation with the owners. Much as I am a dirty protester anarchist troublemaker, I'm also very good at talking to people in authority and calming them down (plenty of years of dealing with riot cops) and I can scrub up well and have years of experience at public speaking and attending council meetings.
6) invite them up, I think if they came and saw actually what happens, then it would help explain and calm things down. We could even drop some letters through the doors of the buildings surrounding the carpark with an email for people to respond to us with, and perhaps even a mobile number to call if it gets noisy.
7) ramps, I get the feeling the problem has been since we've moved from learning to trackstand through to dragging up crates and creating jumps. These are noisier, and look messier. A few times these haven't been cleared away, and this will have caused issues.
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Is the turret machine gun decommissioned?
unfortunately so :-(
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Ok, it's not a bicycle, but there was a fair bit of interest on here so I thought it was worth a punt. If this breaks forum rules please feel free to delete.
FOR SALE!
The SPACE HIJACKERS G20 Tank!
(6 wheeled, 8.5 tonne Saracen Armoured Personnel Carrier)
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Saracen[/ame]
The Space Hijackers are selling our tank in order to focus on other projects. Hitting the international press and featuring on more than one television news item, this is a vehicle like no other. It’s a fully legal, armoured battle limo capable of carrying 11 people on the mission of your choice. And it's the most fun thing we've ever driven.
Spending most of its life in a British Army base in Belgium, FREDom (as we’ve named him) was decommissioned and eventually found its way into our hands. We registered the vehicle and made it road worthy – much to the Metropolitan Police's disbelief!
A tank in the hands of the "laughing cavaliers of anti-capitalism” was always going to cause a stir. We used our tank to expose an arms fair, defend Hackney against an Olympic onslaught, and spoof the policing of the April G20 protests in London.
FREDom’s last outing culminated in the Police taking possession of our vehicle after arresting all 11 people inside. After much public outrage, the case was dropped, and FREDom returned to his rightful owners. The Police managed to crash our tank into a riot van on the way to the pound. [!!!] So he received a knock to the wing and headlamp and needs some repair to make him road worthy. The riot van was a write off. Poetic ouch.
Want it? Ok. Some things you need to do once you own it:
Front left-hand-side wing bent, headlight glass needs replacing, side-light wiring needs tweaking. As with all of these vehicles, you need to charge the accumulators [these run the hydraulics and can be charged with any inert gas. Then just top up the brake fluid, engine oil and water. Should you need any help, we can put you in contact with people who know about this sort of thing.Aside from the police damage mentioned above, this is in great condition. The engine runs smoothly (although noisily) and starts first time.
The vehicle is currently located in South London. Buyer must collect (we have contacts for truck hire)
To book a viewing or for more info, please contact tank@spacehijackers.orgSPECIFICATIONS
Saracen FV603 6 wheeled armoured personnel carrier
Seats 11 (8 passengers, one driver, one commander, one gunner)
Size - 2.5m x 5m x 2.5m
Colour - Navy Blue with black and white checked stripes
Built - 1957
MOT / Road Tax - Exempt
Annual Insurance - approx. £130
Driving Licence Category - D1 (large minibus)
Petrol Consumption - don't even askAsking price - £7000 ono
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I kinda want this but mostly for the bars....
alas I really think it would be a crime to split this one.
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It probably will end up on ebay, but I figured I'm more likely to find someone who'll love it on here first.
obviously people will only pay what they think it's worth. It's a pretty darn rare bike though, so I'm not giving it away ;-)
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Ok, I'm going to bump it up again on the off chance.
I'll take £600 if anyone can offer that, I realise the original price was a little too high, but it's a lovely think and I didn't want to let it go too easily.
lots of pictures up here on my flickr.
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taken by the amazing Mr Winstone
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HA! Cheeky fuckers! thats ripped off from one of our old projects:
http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/html/projects/voting/index.html
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You clearly haven't met Bristly. He's more of an urban dandy/communist Doberman/fixie-bicycler/boombox trickster/anarchist cannon-fodder kind of guy. I'm not trying to spoil you/your ballot for you, but you have to realise who you're dealing with. :)
Wow, I now know what I'm having engraved on my gravestone!
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Just another quick note that the Space Hijackers - Spoil You Ballot - Battle Bus is leaving tomorrow at 1pm.
SPOIL YOUR BALLOT BATTLE BUS!
Mayday 2010
Join us this Mayday on the Space Hijackers anti-election battle bus. We've all seen George Galloway and the other cronies charging around in open top buses trying to persuade people to vote for them, but we all know the whole thing is a scam. Join us in our own open top bus, flying around London giving out an alternate message - SPOIL YOUR BALLOT, REJECT THE LOT OF EM!
To pay for the bus we're asking for a £10 donation from each passenger.
Our plans are as follows,
Meet up 12:00 Sharp at Space Hijackers HQ
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Road
London
E14 7HAthe bus will leave at 1pm (we will not wait for you, so be sure you're there on time).
From there we plan to take a tour of the mayday actions and possibly even chase down a battle bus or two. Included in our tour will be a visit to clerkenwell to cheer on the corpse of Nick Griffin being dragged through the streets, and a lap of parliament Square! Time allowing we'll try to visit the post capitalist event in Hackney and maybe even head along to Rave against the Machine. Our press insider is currently trying to find the routes for some of the official election buses, so fingers crossed we'll be able to hunt one down and give them hell too!
if anyone spots an official bus on the day, please tweet us @spacehijackers
We intend to finish up back at Hijacker HQ for about 4:30pm where we'll probably head on to a night of debauchery.
To reserve your space then use our paypal donate button (on our site) or cross your fingers that there are enough seats and pay on the day.
print out your paypal receipt as proof.
The Space Hijackers, Spoiling it for everyone!
WHY SPOIL YOUR BALLOT?
In our 'democratic' system we're given the choice to vote once every four years, to place our bets on a team for the next 48 months. To chose between red and blue (perhaps even a little yellow). But let's not be fooled by the colour of their ties, we know they're all the same. Whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. Where’s our ‘none of the above’ option?If voting actually changed anything they would ban it. Did you get to vote on the Iraq war? Did you get to vote about regulations on banking? Did you get to vote on MP's expenses? Is this a democracy or a bad joke?
Why play by the rules in this farce of an election?
Every spoilt ballot gets counted and shown to the candidates in that constituency, so why not reject the lot of them and tell them what you think with your ballot paper?
GET INFORMED:
Does your vote really count? With our first past the post system, unless you vote for the winning horse in your area, your vote is simply discarded with the rubbish. In 'safe' seats your vote is practically worthless. In Hackney South, for example, your vote is worth 0.039 of a real one and that's certainly not the worst example in London.click and see how much your vote is worth
Find out who's standing in your community. Do any of the candidates actually care about the issues you do? If not, why vote for any of them? Don't go for the best of a bad bunch.
TAKE CONTROL:
Don't just sit there whining! This is about active rejection, not passive reflection.
Get yourself to the voting booth and get spoiling. In a bogus system, it's the only authentic choice.
Spoiling your ballot is not illegal, spoiling you ballot is your only chance to have your real say in this election.REJECT THIS FARCE OF CHOICE
Party Politics is a self protecting machine. Even by spoiling your ballot and rejecting them all, they will not just go away. Take your politics to your community, get organised, get talking, get active. Why should we only be given a voice once every four years? Get vocal and give 'em hell. The government get scared stiff when the population get self-organised. -
What does then?
Community organisation, taking responsibility ourselves and getting organised.
The more people reject the current system and start doing things by themselves, the more the establishment freak out and attempt to hijack popular movements for their own parties manifestos.
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Apostrophe fail on that poster Bristly.
It should be a closing apostrophe, on 'em not an opening one.Really???
the apostrophe is to demark the missing TH
Reject the lot of them!
becomes
Reject the lot of 'em!http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/apostrophe-1.aspx
If you're writing fiction, you might use apostrophes to eliminate letters to formulate a character's dialect; for example, "I saw 'em talkin' yonder," with apostrophes to indicate that the speaker said 'em instead of them (t-h-e-m), and talkin' instead of talking (t-a-l-k-i-n-g).
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yeah, spoil your ballot, let a minority extremist party in! Fuck yeah!
We don't have proportional representation!
I live in bethnal green and bow, any vote other than Labour or Respect is going to end up in the bin.
Your vote doesn't carry on to the next round if someone you didn't vote for wins your ward.
short of 4 or 5 constituencies in the country a spoilt ballot is no help to the BNP what so ever.
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It was quite some spectacle.
We started off fine, but about 30 second up the road her dress started riding up, a minute later and it was all 'Hello boys!"
I think the warm summer and gin was kicking in though, plus I was demanding to be able to take a picture, for posterity's sake, whilst trying not to crash.