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Someone I know who just recently bought the new Boardman Pro Carbon locked it up with a Kryptonite New York standard lock, the one with the 16mm shackle and double locking points. He was locked outside the Waitrose in Wapping.

The tip of the key broke off in the barrel, I have no idea how, but he's a bit ham fisted and not the sharpest tool (more of that later). After calling the fire brigade, who simply laughed at him, he called a locksmith. This 'locksmith' was a man in a van with a battery powered angle grinder. after 20 minutes he was nearly through one side, and ran out of battery. He had a spare battery, and started on the other side, when the disk wore out - changed the disk and finished the other side, allowing the bike to be freed.

All in all it took 45 minutes of cutting with the accompanying shower of sparks!, two full batteries, and a full diamond cutting disk to get through the lock. Some reassurance that your Kryptonite lock is quite a deterrent.

Handpresso - anyone used one?

http://www.handpresso.co.uk/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/jul/23/50-free-things-to-do-london

Had a packet of Jordans muesli with half a jar of peanut butter, a tablespoon of honey and a pint of full fat milk for midnights last night - best cereal ever, was like a crunchy Reeses bar in a bowl

I am amazed that gazetta can take a 30mm CX tyre!

The wheel's right at the back of the track ends and there's not much clearance, so I'm having to make a call on traction vs clearance - a 27mm with a heavy tread would be good, But I got the Schwalbe CX pro's for £16, so gonna risk it, the weather looks dry up until Monday...and sunday should be fairly light wind wise, so ok for fixed riding...

1. amey
   
2. mobidog (cinelli gazetta, 30mm cx tyre on rear so hopefully hardpack and not mud)
   
3. nev
   
4. Jake
   
5. ShannonBall (Steamroller, mudguards, 23mm, 48:19 or 48:18 depending on conditions)
   

anyone used the Schwalbe CX pro tyres? at 30mm i'd like to think I can use my Cinelli Gazetta with a road geo fork for my first effort at this, anyone had experience converting an (OTP) track bike for SSCX?

Dibs on wheels, are you in London? Could I collect for a postage discount?

I have one of these (complete) and I'm just wondering what makes this a pista headset as opposed to a standard road one?

Sea green

It's fucking green

I can bring an XT one

You're going to have a hard time getting them to agree to refund you the full value of a VGC set of shamals - they'll argue that as they were part of a package and used they aren't worth very much and will offer you a refund of $100

8kg frame?!

That's a nice looking frame

Get all your money back and get them to pay to return the frame - I really hope these fuckers get what they deserve.

did you go through ebay? open a dispute straight away

Steel-vintage.com are a joke of a shop who don't care about their customers. I bought a bike from these Arschloschs as well, they sold me a crash damaged Eddy Merckx frame for £350 and refused to give me my money back as they said it was used and they didn't offer refunds, they eventually said that I would be able to get a reduction of $100 or I could send the frame back which would have cost me nearly £70. I decided to keep the frame and ride it, as the damage was minimal, just a slight bulge in the down tube, but they don't inspect their second hand stock properly, and they're quite nasty to deal with.

They'll be getting a brick through their window next time I'm in Berlin

I did this on the weekend - a friend had a Rainbows, Sparkles and Unicorns party, I went as a Zebracorn:

Prince 2 is quite dated, and not really used outside of large organisations, but is a good introduction to PM methodology and core practices. Take an introductory course if you fancy learning the principles.

Agile methodology is highly relevant for IT, is a bit more modern, but tends to break down if not strictly applied - very useful to understand, and quite 'trendy' but not many of the organisations that say they work agile truly are.

Scrum is an agile subset which has highly defined roles, and is very effective, training as a Scrum master or product owner is a good way to showcase your thinking and requires minimal training.

Kanban is another methodology to acquaint yourself with and it's a bit less strict that the above, but it's easy to track and get good results with. The most important things you need as a Project manager are the ability to think ahead, communicate effectively, and cover your arse.

is it direct drive?

I have eaten quinoa

I'll 2nd dibs these if Broken doesnt take them

Have brake pads with carriers, Shifters in great condition, cassette and BB - did you know it's possible to run a 9 speed cassette and chain with this set up? the ratios are the same and there's a 'hidden shift' left at bottom of the shifters range

I'm pretty sure the OLN of the 74XX series and 77XX series are the same on the rear hub