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This election I'll be out with the Space Hijackers campaigning for people to spoil their ballots http://www.spacehijackers.org

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.

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.

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, pick up will be in East London at about 1pm drop off at 4:30pm Central London
To reserve your space (there are only 68 seats) then use our paypal donate button below:
http://www.spacehijackers.org/html/welcome.html

Ok special tweed run discount

I'll do it for £700

email me tonight and you could be riding it on the run :-)

Hello,

I'm afraid I've not got another lever, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find one. I do have the original brake levers which are both drop bar type ones. Plus I've got all the old gear mech's and extra chain ring etc.

I've put a load of pictures up on my flickr here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristlypioneer/sets/72157623617018007/

and as I said I would be open to reasonable offers.

@bikeboy if you want to come see it, when would be good for you? I'm free tomorrow evening or on the weekend?

bump,

as said above, I'm open to offers on this. There is some minor rusting on the rims and the paint has a few bumps here and there, but this is all to be expected as it is a VERY OLD bicycle.

I'm going to give it a good clean this weekend, PM me if you want to view it

hello, I've posted a few more pictures in my flickr page here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristlypioneer/

also measured it

Top tube 58.5 cm ctc
seat tube 57.5 cm ctc

I'll post up more when I've had a chance to get to my laptop and not do this from my phone

Hello,

Sorry if this is seen as spam, but I'm selling my lovely vintage Dawes Dominate bike which I was riding last year:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread40222.html

ooh! It could be yours for this year's ride?

another pic from the tweed run last year

with Tika pulling a rather fantastic face next to me ;-)

Is this you?

Yep that's me on said bicycle at last year's tweed run. Oooh imagine how lovely you would all look riding around on it!

I'll get some more pics of the details of the bike this weekend.

tasty tasty bike, good to hear spring time love is upon us too! Is this the same lady you were besotted with when we chatted backalong at the Tokyo Fixed Gear shop party? Aww

Yep, same lady.

True about the lever.

Fair point, although as a new owner it's always nice to have something to work on ;-)

and yes, I am open to offers, but as said above it is a LOVELY bike, so I don't intend to part with it for less than I think it's worth to me.

price reduction I'm now only asking for £600

Ok, so I've met a lovely lady, I've fallen for her big time, but she's from Australia! Which means, at the end of the year, Mr Bristly Pioneer is going to have to jump on a plane to the other side of the planet to meet her family, see where she's from, meet her friends etc etc etc. Unfortunately I'm brassic, eek!

So in order to raise the necessary moolah to buy a plane ticket, I'm going to have to part with some of my most prized possessions, ouch!

Up for sale (and in perfect time for the tweed run) is my BEAUTIFUL vintage Dawes Dominate bicycle. I've been trying to contact Dawes to find out the age of it, but they've been bought out and don't have any record of their much older bikes. I would say it looks like it's from the 40's/50s but I can't be sure.

With possibly the most stunningly engraved handlebars ever, most elaborate mud guards and beautiful styling she really is a thing of beauty. I bought her as an 8 speed, but the original rear hub was flip flop (4 speed cassette / fixed), so I switched it around and let it live out it's fixed wheeled dreams. If you want to switch it back, I've still got almost all of the original parts (extra front chain ring, brakes, gear levers etc) however the lovely people at BLB destroyed the rear cassette rather than removing it (cheers guys!).

She's not the lightest beast in the world, but she is possibly the prettiest. I've put on new white walled tyres and it rides like a dream, this will be a perfect summer cruising around London bike.

I'm 5'10" and it fits me well, but is probably more suited to someone a little taller as I have the seat quite far forward.

Top tube 58.5 cm ctc
seat tube 57.5 cm ctc

price reduction
I'm asking for £600!

The bike is in Limehouse, East London, and I don't want to post it, so local collection only.

lots more pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bristlypioneer/sets/72157623617018007/

eta, it also has sliver to clips and black (gold writing) condor straps on it since the pics were taken.

Blue Pearson lopro, risers, white rear tyre and deep V passed me while I was a walkenger on Shaftesbury at lunch. Think it might have been Bristly Pioneer.

sounds like me! I work in Leicester Sq so I'm always on Shaftesbury

Alas no,

and yes we were quite looking forward to giving them a royal spanking in the courts, we'd even managed to persuade a QC to represent us so it was all looking like rather good fun.

here is our press release:

http://www.spacehijackers.org/html/welcome.html

In the months leading up to London's G20 Summit in April 2009, the British press hyped up police warnings of an impending Summer Of Rage when public anger would erupt over the government's bank bailout. The streets would burn and anarchists would turn the newly unemployed into foot soldiers of the revolution. Thankfully the police calmed the situation by saying whatever happened they were 'up for it'.

Following on from previous projects where we parodied the police, the Space Hijackers decided to take our DSEi-busting tank out for another spin and ridicule the expectations of violence from the Police. We would tart her up as a Mad Max-styled mobile oppression vehicle and don fancy dress on April Fools Day (the date when the G20 summit and accompanying demonstrations were taking place). With Ride of the Valkyries blasting from the sound system, we drove into the city with our bicycle outriders to thrust the sword of satire at the State.

What's all this then? It seems the Police failed to see the humour in a 6-wheeled behemoth manned by the laughing cavaliers of anti-capitalism, arrested 11 Hijackers wearing blue boiler suits and started one of the most bizarre prosecutions mounted in a British court in recent years. In an utter waste of taxpayers' money, we were charged and scheduled for a four day trial facing charges of impersonating police officers, with the intent of decieving the public into thinking we were the real fuzz.

We always refuted these ridiculous claims on the part of the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service and invited people to look over the past 10 years of our work, which the police were well aware of, to see that we have a long history of parody, dressing up and winding up the powers that be.

Thankfully, after finally seeing sense, the CPS have now decided to drop all charges against the Space Hijackers and return our vehicle and belongings.

We would like to thank the Metropolitan Police for this amazing team building exercise they have put us through. At the cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the tax payer, the Space Hijackers as a group are now much more numerous, organised, brave, focussed and optimistic in what we can get away with. We look forward to their continued, if slightly fanatically eager interest in our work; getting our tank back, our compensation and using our new found team skills, to take our forms of protest up to the next more outrageous and cunning level.

We can only assume that the CPS bottled what was heading to be a very very expensive, complete circus of a trial ending in their inevitable humiliation at the hands of the Hijackers, Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors and our QC.

Michael Wolkind QC, who was briefed on behalf of all the defendants, commented " it was a great surprise when Keir Starmer, the DPP, took time off from the investigation of the death of Ian Tomlinson, personally to confirm the absurd decision to pursue this prosecution. His judgement has been exposed by the late decision to discontinue the case".

In other news, the Space Hijackers now have a whole free week which we’ve all booked off work and therefore intend to spend it causing as much chaos as possible.

This is just a quick update to let everyone know that the CPS have now dropped ALL charges against us!

We're free to cause chaos once more.

thankyou soooo much to everyone who wrote in with letters of support etc.

Alas we no longer get to turn up at court in the A-Team van we'd hired and stick it to the Police with the amazing QC who was representing us for free!

Space Hijackers 1 - Police 0

see you all soon and thanks again

Ace, I'll fly up there after work today, I totally missed it last time I went up there.

fingers crossed it's still there

I guess it's not much use to anyone else

I went by this morning and spoke with them but no joy. However to be honest I'm not sure I even brought it on the night. All I know is that I can't find it now :-(

by the way, if anyone was up there on Tues, did you find a bike lock when you left?

I can't fucking find mine anywhere? don't have a clue where I've left it.

I find it very weird that this thread never gets posted on, however there is always around 20-30 people up on the roof every Tuesday.

I guess it's just become one of those things now, and people don't need reminding. However for all of the newbies, this is a little bump.

18:30 onwards Tuesday Nights
Whites Row Carpark Roof
Girls & Boys

learn to track stand
learn to skid
have a beer
learn to wheelie
have a beer
fall off.

http://tuesdaynighttrix.blogspot.com/

Bristly Pioneer at Holborn / Kingsway lights - Morning!

Mornin' nice to bump into you!

spotted, girl on low pro coming out of lidl near mile end last night. I nodded, to say hello, was riding my low pro at the time. Then was promptly left behind by her in the traffic (as usual).

hello

I managed to pull my back yesterday, so I'm afraid I'm out for tonight :-(

it's been a bit of a work in progress for ages.

the one from the link just there ↑

Rhino Tec 26" mountain bike carbon tri-spoke with skinny gator skin tyre.

ebay £50 + tyre + innertube

bonus!

it was a very cold night, a bit of dutch courage from the bottle of red definitely helped warm my insides.

Ebay is truly a wonderful thing, the wheel has a few creaks and groans (it looks like it's from the 80's) however I'm hoping being a mountain bike wheel rather than track one it will stand up to the abuse.

Mr Winstone has just put a few pics up on the Tuesday Night Trix blog

http://tuesdaynighttrix.blogspot.com/

oops did I just let the cat out of the bag? ;-)

I'll be back next week, showing you all up with my skillz as usual!

Looking at getting some work on my chest soon so I've been searching around trying to find someone in London who's good at black and grey. Whilst internet searching I stumbled upon this guy:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liam666/

He did my arm,

http://www.londonfgss.com/post842607-246.html

lovely bloke, and great work

So, I'm going to make an appearance up on the roof tonight, although it is Fucking Freezing!

My God, this is unnatural.