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Ah shit, count me out unless I turn up. Girlfriend's most upset about the visa situation so I'm heading there now. She's working in the morning though so if I can get up...
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Oh, do fuck off, you tediously dull witted cunt.
Well if he owns roads then technically, it's probably true... I certainly don't pay tax to anyone to use their private roads...
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It's fixed.
Foot retention?
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Looks like I'll be ducking out at East Hanningfield or Bicknacre and then heading to Chelmsford.
The railway line to the south is closer, but trains are every hour and take an hour to get to Liverpool Street. -
So much for the best laid plans and all that... my girlfriend's finishing work earlier than expected at 2pm and if the home office gets its way she'll be out of the country in a month so it's hardly the most sympathetic time to be off on a ride.
Still, I want to come along so I'll just see how far we get by lunchtime and then find a train to whizz me back to town.
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He's got a point though.
+1, I have a great dislike for Heathrow, what a dump
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blimey, least it's still there I guess. They've tried to cut through it haven't they?
So far as I can tell they just buckled it using the lock, with the bike as lever.
Didn't do them any good since the lock went through the frame, but it snapped the rim clean in half.
Can't tell if it was mindless vandalism or attempted theft - if the latter, they certainly didn't think their strategy through...maybe they were thinking:
- See bike
- Break wheel
- ?????
- Profit
- See bike
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I see your problem.
Slack chain.
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What about the super-hip sickasfuckmobile?
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Being me the customer I need to get this off my chest, hoping that the cunt on the other side of the phone can actually read this.
So... ebay shop, I got something off them a few days ago, like 11 days to be precise. The shop is in Buxton, Derbyshire.I quite like Buxton - it's near my parents' place.
You can go and drink the water (warmed from being inside the earth) from a lion's head in the centre of town.
Forum ride anyone? It's about 180 miles if you go via Coventry. Takes most of the day.
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Ouch. Anything salvageable from that, Russell?
Everything apart from the rear rim, spokes, tyre and tube so far as I can tell.
Checked the bike over and all seems fine. the bends you see in the frame are supposed to be there. Put a SS wheel in that I had and it rides same as ever.
So, the alfine hub will now be going into its' 3rd wheel!
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Could've been any time Tuesday 2330ish to Thursday 1900ish.
Yeah, only an idiot would leave their bike that long, but well, as if the alcohol wasn't bad enough I also got a puncture.
The plan was to avoid carrying the bugger all the way to Liverpool Street. It didn't work - I still had to carry it, just in a less drunk and more pissed off state.
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Well we have a locks that work thread, and a stolen bikes thread but my recent experience didn't really fit either, since my bike wasn't stolen and the lock seems to have worked.
So, tales or pictures of bikes where the lock seemed to do its job..
This is what happens if you lock your bike in a way that lets people manipulate it just outside Natwest & HSBC on Tottenham Court Road.
Lock is an Abus Granit-X Plus 54, 23cm.
Rather annoyingly (to put it mildly) this was a newly-rebuilt wheel with a new rim, tyre and tube. Fucksocks.
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That would be my bike then, after almost 2 days in London. Not exactly how I left it...
... the rear 'wheel' is particularly interesting
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Can I, a laydee, riding fixed, on 72 gear inches, having had little or no training for this since a 90km very leisurely and flat ride on road bike about 18 months ago (which I found to be fine) do this ride without embarassing myself and/or holding everyone up?
Thoughts please....
I think last year the overall average including stops was ~10mph. The ride is mostly flat (it's Essex, after all) and everyone just rolled along together in a nice group.
The last 15-20 miles (?) was along a single road with no real navigation needed - we fragmented out a bit at that point, everyone going at their own pace.
You ought to be fine - a strong headwind would suck, but it would suck equally as much for everyone else. If it all gets a bit much I'm sure there's the odd train station you can duck out at en route (check the route map - I might be wrong there).
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- joe smithers
- stix
- damo (missed this last year)
- spybot (provisional....)
- braker (will be on a super-hip sickasfuckmobile)
- ChainBreaker
- dimi3
- pajamas
- ian (conker)
- Edmundro
- habbi
- Deluka
- dicki
- rab
- rhowe
- ziska
- D. Generate
19. - rudall
- tom k&e
In. Last year was great.
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Doesn't actually link the two events - cycling around Europe and being reunited with his son. Chances of there being any connection at all?
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Your choice of lock is excellent. I had to learn about locks from the actual theft of two bikes, over a rather long period of time. You have just learned as much as me in only one incident. Your lock saved your bike from being somebody else's property. It's a bad situation, but you still did well.
What was that? You build wheels for free? :)
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Both have already done so. Chances of finding any in an Easts-friendly boozer are limited though.
Belgian beer I'm less convinced by - someone needs to tell them about hops.
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Still, my point was that a good lock might stop people nicking the bike, but they can still trash it if they wish.
Admittedly, mine might not have been so bad had I locked it up differently or in a different location, and I'm sure I have the lock to thank for still having a bike at all.
None of this changes that fact that I'm still royally pissed off!
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Sucks. I lost two mobile phones that way. Somehow my 450D survived a good splash with a wave, although the USM focus motor on the 10-22 lens has been a bit funny since.
I think I ought to take the camera and lens in for them to take a look at