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Hi just wanted to say hello formally.
I live in wc1 and usually ride a pink preuss (fixed), otherwise I ride a colnago single speed with a really bad pink spray job. I ride from mount pleasant to work in sw6, so see a few of you overtaking me most days.

I fell off after failing to remove the bright yellow sticker from a new pair of pedals that said "please remove before use".

thanks so much, any help much appreciated

He's talked to security as he was delivering there at the time and that's where they told him to put his bike. They have footage of the thief on camera which is being passed on to the police, they wouldn't let the rider see it himself.

Ok,it's a dark green specialised Langster with lime green velocity wheels and black tyres.
Narrow purple flat bars with purple grips and black bar ends, blue front brake lever and XTR clipless pedals.
The frame has loads of green worlds end courier stickers and a smiley face sticker on the head tube.
It was stolen from Chelsea football club between 12:35 and 12:45 .

Thanks Chris, the rider is on his way in now, will get all the details off him.

edit I know it's a long shot but our cyclist's bike was just stolen from Stamford Bridge by some kids. It's a dark green Specialised Langster with cut down purple handle bars (straight), blue brake lever and green rims, so pretty recognisable. He's understandably completely gutted so if you spot it please let me know.

This morning I spoke to a student of the cyclist killed on Grays Inn rd (a 38 year old lecturer from UCl). She was shocked it hadn't been reported, mid conversation we had to jump back out of the way of two skip lorries cutting that corner of Grays Inn rd and guildford st, the cracked pavement bares testament to this being a regular occurence. What she did say was that the police had mentioned proposed legislation regarding HGV access to certain London roads. Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Damn got stuck at work, will really try to come down next week, could do with some tips on...well just about everything really, but stopping would be a start. Hope to see you there.

hi. quite new to this forum and even newer to riding fixed. I will try and come along next Tuesday (work permitting), so hopefully see you there.

Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman

Ran over a duck once in st James park (duck was ok minus a few tail feathers)

not funny but animatable I suppose

PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH

I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the

club-footed ghoul come near me.

I am not yet born, console me.
I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,

with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me,
   on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me.

I am not yet born; provide me
With water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees to talk

to me, sky to sing to me, birds and a white light
   in the back of my mind to guide me.

I am not yet born; forgive me
For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words

when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,
   my treason engendered by traitors beyond me,
      my life when they murder by means of my
         hands, my death when they live me.

I am not yet born; rehearse me
In the parts I must play and the cues I must take when

old men lecture me, bureaucrats hector me, mountains
   frown at me, lovers laugh at me, the white
       waves call me to folly and the desert calls
         me to doom and the beggar refuses
            my gift and my children curse me.

I am not yet born; O hear me,
Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God

come near me.

I am not yet born; O fill me
With strength against those who would freeze my

humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,
   would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
      one face, a thing, and against all those
         who would dissipate my entirety, would
            blow me like thistledown hither and
               thither or hither and thither
                  like water held in the
                     hands would spill me.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me.
Otherwise kill me.