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Nah, I bet one was riding on the handlebars...

FWIW... I saw at least three bicycle coppers by my office next to Barbican station today. They tend to hang out at the intersection there (Beech St/Long Ln and Goswell Rd/Aldersgate St). If you RLJ there, you'll get busted.

My favourite comment on that story:

The IRO is a seriously fast bike. I love mine so much I took it to Iraq with me. Go Rachel!

Sounds like I need to get an IRO!

Racist. What have the Netherlands done to offend you?
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I like orange bikes ok, but that Koga looks like the fish from Finding Nemo. Ugly.

Agree, but they did hee haw to back it up. To be fair anything that followedfailed in comparison.

The best live gig Ive been to was Paul Weller touring with his first self titled album it was memorable! Wild Wood was almost as good then it all went south.

Yeah, a real shame about 'Second Coming' or whatever it was called. They'd have been better off as a one-album wonder. I tried to give the Ian Brown solo stuff a chance, but couldn't get too into it. A couple of decent songs, I guess.

Every time I had this issue with a car I owned, the answer was, invariably, 'check your alignment.'

YouTube - Don Cab- Delivering The Groceries At 138 Beats Per Minute

Yeah, the first Stone Roses album is easily one of the strongest debut albums of all time.

Final Fantasy. He was incredible. Created his entire sound with one violin and loop pedals while a diminutive native american woman created stories using some cut outs and a old school type projector.

Another vote for Fucked Up, Pink Eyes crowd jumped and broke some dudes leg when I saw them.

Lots of stoner-metal bands are fucking awesome too, I saw Church of Misery and they LITERALLY blew me away. So loud and mental that my chest hurt from bass and I had to get air due to extreme metalness.

Wow, you really ARE a hipster :P

Rein Sanction

^^Are those backwards moustache bars?

Come on now...

Aha! You've won again, Platini. Well played....

Would you not like to spend more than 10 minutes trying to figure it out?
GYAC: 'Holmes' is the key...

Well, my initial attempt at figuring out who Gerry Rafferty was revealed he had a hit song called 'Home and Dry' (which is apparently NOT the same as the Pet Shop Boys' song of that name). That's about the best I could do. I was surprised to find out that he was part of Stealer's Wheel, though. And surprised to find out Stealer's Wheel were a Scottish group.

He's clearly a massive fan of Gerry Rafferty...

Okay Platini... I'll bite. What does that mean?

I think the more you think on my definition, the more you'll buy it.... ;)

It just reminded me of when I studied English and linguistics in Uni. The profs used to talk about "African American Vernacular English" (although I think we still called it "Black English Vernacular" when I was in school) and would ALWAYS point out how the black use of the word 'be' (as in "I be going to work") was a holdover from West African languages and originally was used to express a habitual tense or whatever that wasn't present in English. Therefore these enterprising Africans started using 'be' to express that.

It's a bunch of bollocks (and has since been discredited). 'I be going to the store' means 'I'm going to the store.'

Polkatronixx - I'd be interested to hear your derivation of "homes" or "homie" if you don't think mine's right..

Well, my definition would be basically a friend or someone whom you know. Perhaps someone from 'around the way' or whatever. I believe the term started with Chicanos, but I'm not too sure.

I've just never heard it literally broken down to mean 'someone from my home town,' and I've never known anyone to use it that way. But you could well be right... I'm certainly no linguist!

well that was the definition given in the glossary of b-boy terms in my 1983 Breakance annual..

I certainly can't argue with that :)

I can't breakdance and I'm whiter than Orville Redenbacher.

Maybe we could try to track down that gun-weilding 'gangbanger*' from that other thread and see what he says.

*when I was a kid, 'gangbang' meant something else entirely

are you sure?

I've a feelin the "holmes" only came from white middle class American kids trying to be street and getting it wrong..

To be honest, I'm not so sure I know where 'holmes' comes from... but I grew up in the South in the 80s and went to integrated public (in the US sense) schools, and black kids were the first kids I heard using words like that.

But it might be a different story elsewhere. I figure it's kind of like 'psych' or 'syke' or 'sike' (or however it was spelled)... people just started saying it and soon it seemed like everyone was saying it. And it appears to have happened all over the country.

Must've been the influence of TV or something...

homes = homie = home boy = boy from my home town, my neighbourhood = someone I know, someone I trust

all there, I've been keepin it real since '83 me

homes = homie = home boy = boy from my home town, my neighbourhood = someone I know, someone I trust

I don't think that's really what homeboy or 'homie' means, either.

Nah, they're two different words, although the meanings are similar. (They're actually pronounced slightly differently... or were at one time). At least they were in the US.

I say "no sweat homes" a lot

I believe it's 'holmes.'

people who pronounce chorizo with ezo instead of the spanish chôriʹthô

Depends where is Spain. I studied Latin American Spanish (which has its roots in Andalusian Spanish, in part) and the 'izo' is pronounced 'eeso.'

I am well aware the Plug is a completely different bike, but in my price range alu framed bikes seem rather scarce - Trek/Giant/Spesh, and of the three the Langster seems about the best.

Would rather not have another steel framed bike, as my Guerciotti is about to get an overhaul after a nasty snapped fork incident.

I ride a 58cm if that is of any use.

I say go for the Langster. It's a good bike and a good value. And the newer ones (in silver) look pretty nice too, if that matters at all. If you want a decent steel bike, I say get a Genesis Flyer or Skyline.

I realise these aren't flip flops, but by 'flip flop wheel' do you mean something similar to this?

every day i forget this Mr.Blobby impersonator is our Major! Jesus what happened, Ken was not an angel but he spoke fact's,
I never saw Ken pretending to ride a bike, he either walked, got a lift or bused it, Mr.blobby here has jumped on the David Cameron bandwagon of using a bike so people think he gives a fuck about the environment and his health, if the BNP said their policy was good for the environment Boris would go round chasing minorities with a Stick, but only when the cameras were on.

Ken Livingstone was a lying piece of shit. And I still gave him my second-choice vote.

I do see what's going on here. You don't like Boris Johnson (or Tories, apparently), but you DO like cycling. The way to resolve your cognitive dissonance? Label Johnson a 'plastic cyclist' or whatever.

Lots of dickheads ride bikes and probably share all sorts of interests in common with you (or me or anyone). It's all part of life's rich pageant (to paraphrase Jacques Clouseau).