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nah, its obviously the vans halfcab, better padding and ankle support.

i never got why they put designs on the insoles? you cant see it when your wearing the shoes so only those in the know know whats inside the shoe, it makes no sense!

I'm just here for the girls. Fuck the type!

changed.

i finally managed to get a stove top bialletti after using a caffatiere for a while, but was wondering how many times you have to use it before its good enough to drink it? (because the pamphlet says use it a couple of times but pour the coffee away, but how many times is a couple?)

sign up with a temping agency like brook street, im saving up to go traveling, and i got work from them really easily and quickly (all sorts of temping), plus it doesnt pay too badly, or do some extra's type work (as in being an extra on film and tv), search for mad dog productions or something similar, i have done some work for them now as well and they dont pay too badly either.

how very dare he.

exactly

dr johnson avenue?

spotted this morning on elmbourne road at ooh 9ish? some one on a surly.

nah, tooting bec road.

some guy on a hhsb with what looked like front white arrospok and possibly no brakes cycling on the road that runs through tooting bec common, it was about 9:50 in the morning though.

i wasn't born then :-)
i have a copy of his autobiography,i remember the photographs especially the one of the pisshead with the hair.

theres some others that are not just portraits, ill try and find them at some point.

when i first started working in the area the truman brewery was still closed/empty and the only places to go of an evening were the comedy club and 2 pubs, food was brought from the cafe opposite the comedy club or from a kebab shop there was nothing else there apart from the rag trade, shoe/handbag wholesalers and suit warehouse called uomo dolemeti (sp?) commercial road was dodgy as fuck, not somewhere you went late at night unless you were a truck driver on a sex detour from dover to the a1.

i guess you werent working there in the 1960s... but have you seen those don mccullin photos of east london? obviously it has changed and look nothing like those photos, but i think out of all of london it is the slowest changing part, and you can still see a little similarity.

I'm fuckin well hipster!

for 15 long fucking years I've been getting angry about people ripping off skateboard style, shoes, clothes etc. Adverts jumping on the band waggon, companies like Nike deciding their sweatshop shite is now skate and down with the kids. I got angry about shoe prices going through the roof and twonks on neal street mincing around in skate clothes but probably not even able to ollie.

Now I've decided to cast my old life aside, I'm going to ride a trendy bike on brick lane, drink in old street and bask in my hipsterdom, If I could afford it i'd be decked out in head to toe in japanese shite bought at top dollar from BLB. Arrospok here I come.

It's actually quite a weight off my shoulders!

;-)

when people started buying nike "sb" dunks because they were special edition and they will never actually skate them you know things have gone wrong.

cant believe the one mass i miss in 2 years is the only one other than the december ride not to have police on it. oh well such is life.

Ok i am going to be contreversial here and say that calling for a ban on HGV's of any sort is bull, and is probably going to result in any sort of campaign looking as though it is coming from pipe dreamers rather than realists. HGV's are the life blood of retail London.

Lorries dont kill people, badly trained driivers do, same as in a car, on a motorbike or on a bicycle, whats needed is better road education

As a former goods driver, i can tell you that any sort of spoke cadr saying Lorries Kill is going to do a lot more worse than good, it will antagonise the drivers more than anything else.

Half the problem with road safety campaigns is they always appear to come from the lunatic fringe of cyclists to the general public, and as such get dismissed as irelevant or to far fetched, and calling for a ban on HGV's is the same shit.

I still maintain that we should take steps to educate our community to better understand the risks of the road, rather than point the blame at others - too many cyclists put them selves in these positions without being aware of what kind of danger they are in - you should never ever move up the inside of a moving HGV or similar, you are playing with fire, getting that message across is a step in itself

We live in a city that is hopelessly outdated for all forms of transport, from pedestrians, to cyclists, to cars to HGV,s to public transport, everything is far from adequate, but this is because we live in a city that has grown and evolved over 2000 years, and was never designed to be traveled in as it is today.

All forms of transport need to work together, too often one policy is implemented to the benefit of one group of users that disadvantages another, for example the use of Motorbikes in Bus Lanes that has become a farce.

I think the spoke card idea is great, a great deal of good will exists on this forum to make things happen, and i feel like a dampner is being put on that now.

Bill, i know we have had words before, and i have the utmost respect for all you have done and your wealth of knowledge, and whilst i agree with the majority of what you have said, i have to disagree with your sentiments on the spoke card - as some of you know i build custom motorbikes in my spare time, and within that community we are very active at producing leaflets, flyers etc and distributing them round at events, meets, drinks etc - and guess what when you are talking to a fellow biker rather than a cop or public servant the message tends to get across, and is listened to and taken on board - the motorcycle community is very good at looking after itself, making sure that people who ride like twats know it, and helping those who need a hint or two.

I think a spreading of the word at ground level could do a world of good, and the spoke card initiative seems a great way of doing this.

im pretty sure that some cities in europe already have hgv free zones but i cant remember the exact details. plus it makes more sense for them to deliver at night because there is less traffic and some companies already do this.

im sure people would be up for doing some stencils, however i doubt it is a good idea to discuss this on the forum, not that anything will happen but maybe we should just pm about it, after all i do remember one forumer being a copper or something like that.

id say that all of the bike "tribes" they metion use lfgss, messengers, fakengers, hipsters, and i havent even heard of the last one, but im sure they are on here somewhere, "fraudax"

I think Bill's right. We need to get lobbying not laminating.

Its like herding cats in here!

tbh, i think it should be a mix of both, raising awareness amongst cycling that hgvs arnt the safest things to cycle near through the spoke cards and also lobbying the authorities to sort out the parts of this problem that we cant, such as creating hgv free zones. but i think we will be in a better possition to lobby if at first we create some momentum amounst cyclists so we can effectivly lobby, linking in with the lcc, ctc and other cycling groups if people want to do so.

Saw this in Wimbledon right outside Uniqlo and Black, doesn't look like he's trying hard, simply making do with what he have.

is this anyone here?

i saw this bike at brixton bowls at the weekend too.

i think spoke cards would be better because they will cover more area in london compared to stickers which will stay stationary and will only be seen by those who park near them, plus bikes tend to park in groups.

the thread on mt is this one http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/598/diagrams-of-hgv-blind-spots-from-nozzer-these-could-save-your-life/#Item_0

it has really good info plus the pictures are really easy to understand and we could print stats over the less important bits of them.

there are some others as well, maybe if people like these ones we could change the colours?

did you get that from the prolly blog? its so crazy, it just goes on forever.

i do these things to my skate shoes to get more life out of them, you could do all of them or a mixture if you want. super glue over stiching, beware it does make suede go rigid. hot glue from a glue gun adds strength and works well attaching other bits of material to the shoe, apply liberally. other bits of material, cut into circular patches then hot glue them on dont forget to put glue over the sides as well so they dont flap.

this can make your shoes look trampy but oh well, it can work.

kanye west

St Matthew's roundabout in Brixton, 7.45pm last night... Some dude on a Gillott conversion, white deep-Vs with a skateboard poking out of his backpack... I shouted a jolly 'Do a skiiiiiiid!', he gave me a dirty look... You're goin' down next time, sunshine...

He's always around, goes up dulwich rd at 6 o'clock and then back down 30 mins later, as if he goes to HH and then thinks, naah, I can't skate that.

this isnt the same person, im the one with the board who goes through brixton, but im hardly ever on dulwich road, i go up brixton hill.

St Matthew's roundabout in Brixton, 7.45pm last night... Some dude on a Gillott conversion, white deep-Vs with a skateboard poking out of his backpack... I shouted a jolly 'Do a skiiiiiiid!', he gave me a dirty look... You're goin' down next time, sunshine...

that sounds like me, although i dont remember giving anyone a dirty look, but if i did its probably because i always have earphones so i probably thought you were just shouting at me. also, its not a conversion, its a track bike.

sorry about the mix up.

If any twat snaked my line on a fixed wheel bike in a SKATEpark I'd be hard pushed not to lose my temper...

they werent riding in the park, they were locked up, sorry i didnt make that clear.

I hope the new surface makes it quicker - those massive cracks used to get on my tits (and I ride with 56mm wheels!)

well i was there today, and although it was pretty packed i still manage to get a few super fast lines which included getting a little air over the main bump just from speed, there was about 3 fixed gear bikes there but i didnt recognize anyone.

I was across the road from Stockwell at Brixton Academy on Wed & Thurs for the Vodafone live music awards & its still not finished . They are still working on the funbox & other parts . The rebuild started August last year & its still going over a year later

some parts of what you said are untrue, the funbox is completely finished, as is everything other than the jersey barrier which is getting sorted out today. the build has taken too long, but it should be finished today. the problems that they had whilst building it werent really their mistakes, they got sold the wrong type of concrete which wasnt good enough, plus some other problems.

And a lot of them are also ditching their 'fixies' in favour of these Robyn Mather custom specials:

Pricey and a long wait, but can you put a price on a bike with soul?

turns out these are made by pashley, http://www.pashley.co.uk/products/mailstar.html