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dt piping should be about 16/17cm long per mallet.
ta, I'll go and investigate this evening.

Ah, i might have a 'friend' with gas piping or water piping. I was meaning to ask him since New Year but I've not seen him since. What do we need a bit less than a foot per mallet? And then enough for a four a side southside team?

I had a thrilling evening of clearing out my tool box last night. So if its near Railton you''ll have access to a rechargeable electric drill, enough screws to make a suitable Trafalgar Square plinth replacement plus access to other gubbins. No piping or ski poles (and a lambeth freecycle request didn't come up with any either).

Alternatively I could lend the equipment to someone passing through Herne Hill to Peckham.

Damn, to be fair, I'd just come out of a meeting with a man who has £20 million to spend in the next 2 years and he'd been a right pain the @rse stopping me from getting any to give to da yout of southwark, so maybe planting him in a gro bag what was I was hoping to do with him.

I think i saw my first Grobag yesterday - a bright pink one with black straps / webbing sported by a girl on a white framed bike. Going north just by Borough tube. I think my boss thought I was mad as I was muttering 'grobag grobag' under my breath and drooling slightly.

ETA - a dr octagon tune off that album was used as BBC ident music last night, sadly no medical / pr0n or horse in the operating room lyrics were present.

Frankly the way my week's going, I can predict that I could do with a drink tomorrow night. Where are West Beers? The Snow, or that place in Hammersmith again?

Sano I'm coming again... Any easties fancy going and helping me smash up a posh westie pub?

hael/snowy again - I could pick the ticket it up and drop it through the door of your work on the way home (in an envelope, of course...)

that sounds like a plan, I'll be in Vauxhall Cross this afternoon, but Brixton tomorrow. Think i got to work late tonight, so might not be up for polo...

ooh i would take that off your hands :D i might even bring my scottish fixie back with me!

hael, the tickets yours. I was hoping to go back up to Edinburgh in the next month, but there's no way I can feasibly do it. Besides I'm going to glasgow and that's already paid for. How do you want to get the ticket? Whisper me a postal address? Or depending on the location of West End beers?

Ah yes, i thought the same thing this morning when I cycled past it (before being overtaken by someone on a beaterish bike with a rear blue tyre - no more details as it was starting to rain and I was cursing the combination of steel rims and crap brake pads).

I'll go and chase Dexters' Mgt Com numbers unless anyone else has them (I think someone did get some that night)?

Yes it would be excellent to see that being done at every rubbish tip in the land wouldn't it. Maybe the Hackney scheme (name?) who train kids in bike mechanics should be getting into that . My mate Wig bought a lovely 80s Mercian audaxy thing for peanuts from them a while back. Lovely! And it's not adding to the demand for new bikes, its a very cool scheme as you say snowy_again.

You sure you wanted the Bramptons though? the free side was for 5 speed right? I have a lo-flange BHC one of those. One of the girls at Brick Lane Bikes was going 'what the f's that it's amazing!' when i was riding it fixed with the 5 cog still on there. Not unusual in that era for road/path.

I think it needs a wide scavenging range to make it cost effective and to get the stock. Environba (sp.) seems to be local authority wide in its catchment area, giving it lots of stuff from lots of sites, but that involves some one developing relationships with lots of waste companies. Probably possible in London. (I used to get all my bike bits from the dump in Penge when i was a kid). This convo doesn't really sit in the ebay finds bit, but has prompted me to do some more work on the business planning side of it. Cheers to others for the Oxford link, i'll go and look them up.

Oh and the bramptons - yup - was for my 'vintage' (currently unidentified) bike - aspiring for that old clubman look! All i need now is a handlebar moustache, a pipe and a whippet.

Sadly due to 'plastic on the overhead lines' it took me an extra hour and a half to get to Edinburgh yesterday, so I didn't get to check out any shops. Leith Walk has changed a bit though. Anyway, due to pretending to be asleep on the way back, i've now got an Edin > London one way ticket valid until Feb 6th if anyone wants it?

SkullheadWilderness This ebay seller has some lovely bits for the vintage heads out there. Carlton Corsa, Brampton Hubs in lovely nick, Campag headset 24tpi, Hercules Kestrel.

I've had a chat with them, cos I was hoping to copy the business model into another social enterprise (which is what they are) operating in London.

*That and the fact that I missed out on those brampton hubs which were just what I was after (for the flip flop thing, but in hindsight, not much cheaper than a used knacked set of campag records currently on there). *

They have a very interesting deal with their regional waste suppliers (Billa i think, not Billa poster here!) who just give 'em all the bike bits dumped in tips etc. as part of their land fill tax credit scheme and then Environ train people to recycle bikes back into life and then back to the community.

The more choice bits get whacked up on ebay and pays towards the staff salaries. I'm not sure how scaleable that is across the UK, but its a great idea.

Cripes! that's a list and a half. I'll have to make an excuse to go back up (well I'm in Glasgow next week, and its not that far between the two). I'll see what the hole in the wall says on the way home. Cheers Simon!

Haha, we're inclusive!

Take a big suitcase.
A big list here, but not all that up to date.
You can hire SS (not sure about fixed) from Manhattan Velo on E17th by Union Square.

Slight confusion: I'm going to interview them on their work with young people and alcohol. I have *experience *in that field see. Not that I'm technically young anymore. Conveniently Edinburgh Cycles is just on the posh side of my journey across town.

Tramadol. Hmm. Tramadol.

Hmm, tempting. I've just changed my train times, so I get to spend a bit more time up there, not been up for six months or so. Do you think its acceptable to turn up to an interview with a new workstand strapped over your shoulder?

I made my excuses and left after just the one pint, was quite brain dead - been working too hard and its only the first week in January. But a pleasure to meet you all (in fact meeting some of you again). I got home to my girlfriend asking whether I'd been seeing "the bicycle nerds again". What could I say?

SimonC thanks for the wheels.

Oh I'm in Edinburgh on Monday, can anyone recommend any good bike shops I could visit on my way back to Waverley?

Bicycle Coffin?

slow_bot that kiddie is looking at some serious tinnitus.

SORRY! CAN'T HEAR YOU! PHIL COLLINS TOO LOUD ON THE MULTI-CHANGER!

Sorry, meant to post this before but wandered off into the world of tall bikes... the seat post went to TobyOneKanobe last night.

Haha, its another NYC Bike Snob related find

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I've not seen the critical mass system for a while (well not since the thing in Brockwell Park over the summer)

oh and the lottery bike would be something like this.

Well I could boringly talk about this for hours, but you don't want me to. I think **Camelot **have ripped people off for years, and I agree that I don't see why I should be paying for the Civil List and pointless deterrent missile systems. But funding to pay for unpopular causes is never going to be supported by taxation. Politicians are vote chasers and want to remain populist. Need and disadvantage isn't populist.