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I have one of the lovely older gun metal grey Fuji Tracks for sale.

Have had it for about 3 years and love it to bits. It's my every day commuter and the frame geo is great.... I'm going touring though and leaving the UK and sadly this isn't coming with.

It's a 54cm - couple of chips in the paint, but in pretty good nick.
Had a new BB and stronglight crankset last year.
Also had a new cane creek head set about 18 months ago.
Bars are the standard chopped and flipped.
Saddle is charge ladle, ladies
Wheels are Dolan Navigators - less than 12 months old.
Older gatorskin on the front, rear has a new one (1 month old).
Shimano 105 and dirty harry leaver

I can email you some pics if you'd like.

Uttings
http://www.uttings.co.uk/Product/444/107762/terra-nova-laser-competition-1-tent-2011-43lc/

Still in stock.
I'll let you know how user friendly it is once I have a go. I can't get over how light and small it is!

The lovely El Guapo this morning along the canal path of Peckham. HOLA!

Whilst not 'cheap' if you're doing a la carte there are some great mid week deals to be had in South London. Have just added the following to the list.

Lido cafe - burger and a pint for £10 on a Wed
Prince Regent - 2 courses for £11 on a Mon
Number67 - 3 courses £20 on a Wed and Thus (amazing food!)

NORTH
ANGEL - Le Mercury. Cheap and cheerful French bistro.
CAMDEN - That whole in the wall on your right hand side a few doors down as you come out of Camden tube - great steak baguettes
CHAPEL MARKET - Bhel Poori House. Super-cheap all you can eat veggie buffet. 4.95
CHAPEL MARKET - The Naked Sausage, stall during the market hours [6am-5pm] A gourmet half pounder with cheese, double bacon, fried egg, and caramelized onion in a cheese and onion roll/brown roll/etc - 5 quid
HOLLOWAY ROAD: Amigos, Mexican takeaway/delivery, good and cheap, massive burritos for 5-6 quid and they make their own hot sauce which is amazing.
PRIMROSE HILL - Trojka Tea Rooms, Regents Park Road. This place does awesome Russian food, all day long. Good stodgy meal and a frozen vodka is the perfect hangover cure and will cost less than a tenner.
STOKE NEWINGTON - Abu Ruchi, cheap and ace Keralan eats
STOKE NEWINGTON - RASA (number 55, not 56) on Church Street, fantastic food for under £15 per head.
STOKE NEWINGTON - Super Kebab. £5.00 for large, and a little more for a Shish. Best Kebabs I have ever tasted. Not a restaurant, but has seating areas.
STROUD GREEN ROAD - Jai Krishna - Indian vegetarian. Dirt cheap, delicious, and BYOB with a great off licence across the road.
UPPER STREET - La Divina, Mon-Fri 3-8pm deals of side+main+dessert £9.45, very good pizza out there, although watch out for spritzers, they charge them as big wine glasses

SOUTH
BERMONDSEY - Old Justice, Bermondsey Wall. Unlimited Korean bbq for 16.99.
BRIXTON - Khamsa, Algerian, 140 Acre Lane - Tiny, healthy, delicious, authentic family restaurant.
BRIXTON VILLAGE - Franco Manca - pizzas only - authentic Italian style toppings on sourdough bases. incredible. I've not had a better pizza in London. about £8 per disc of joy.
BRIXTON VILLAGE - Honest Burgers - excellent burgers and chips - meat is from the Ginger Pig. £7.50 for plain beef burger and chips.
BRIXTON VILLAGE - Elephant - Pakistani cafe - great thalis for about £8. Bring your own booze.
CAMBERWELL - Number67 at South London Gallery
3 delicious courses £20 Wed and Thus
CAMBERWELL - Zeret Kitchen for Eritrean/Ethiopian food, unfancy looking, incredible food (good for a big party of people too), £10er a head including a beer will be plenty
CAMBERWELL - Silk Road for Chinese food, awesome food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking advisable
DEPTFORD Mama Pho - 24A Evelyn Street, Deptford, London SE8 5DG I've put this down as Deptford because it is SE8 but in my book it is Rotherhithe any short menu rather meaty like the French they do not understand the word vegitarian but last week paid £25 for a meal for 3 be prepared to be the only none Vietmanese in the place.
GREENWICH - Noodle Time. Fat eats for a few quid.
HERNE HILL - The Prince Regent. 69 Dulwich Road, London SE24 0NJ
2 courses for £11 on Mondays
HERNE HILL - Brockwell Lido Cafe
Burger and a pint/glass of house wine for £10 on Wednesdays
LAVENDER HILL, BATTERSEA (& SHOREDITCH) - Mien Tay, Vietnamese. One of the best in London.
ROTHERHITHE - Surrey Docks Farm Café, run by Frizzante (who are also at Hackney and Mudchute City Farm). Lovely breakfasts and Sunday lunches. Farm produced meat is on sale whenever available, as are plants, honey etc.
SOUTHWARK - Bangkok Kitchen - Union st - like a real thai street stall, tarps and plastic chairs. Recommend the freshly stir fried dishes. ~£5
SOUTHWARK - Rosie Tate Cafe - huge toasted sandwiches for about £3, decent salads for £3-4
TOOTING - Dosa n Chutny. Dosa, obviously, many of them under £3. Better for veggies than meat eaters though.
TOOTING - Jaffna House, Tooting High Street. Delicious Sri Lankan curry for a great price.
TOOTING - Meza on Trinity Road. Great (tiny) Lebanese restaurant, only about 4/5 tables so booking is a must. Main courses under £10. Great aubergine-based mezze.
VAUXHALL - Hot Stuff. Awesome curry, tiny prices. BYO, no corkage. Order a family naan, it is the size of the table.
WATERLOO - Master's Superfish, Waterloo Road. Best fried fish in town.
WATERLOO - "ev", Isabella St just off the cut. Great £10 Turkish Meze for two. They are the suppliers to Tas restaurants

EAST
BETHNAL GREEN - Noodle King. Massive dishes for a fiver.
BETHNAL GREEN RD (top of Brick Lane) - Tas Firin for wicked cheap Turkish. Amazing pide and kebabs (veggie ones too). Nearly always busy. You can eat very well for a tenner.
BRICK LANE - Beigel shop,24 hour and a huge salt beef bagel, £2.50
BRICK LANE - Sunday Upmarket has some decent food and a good atmosphere. The Japanese pancakes with cheese and vegetables, strange mayonnaise and a rice ball thing for £4.50 is top, as is the stand with cold mezze
BRICK LANE - Sweet & Spicy for Pakistani near Heneage st
BROADWAY MARKET - Joy, Indian. This place is under-rated and dammed good!
BROADWAY MARKET - Bella Vita. 2 pizzas and a bottle of S.Pellegrino for about £16
CLERKENWELL - Sedap for awesome Malaysian (and near LMNH) at 102 Old St
DALSTON - Peppers & Spice on Balls Pond Rd. Cheap Caribbean dishes for under a tenner. Huge portions.
DALSTON - Mangal Ocackbasi on Arcola Street. Amazing Turkish charcoal grill, BYOB. Feast like kings for two is c.£30 (not including whatever booze you take). This place is all about the meat though - dunno how great the choice is for veggies.
DALSTON - 19 Numara Bos Cirrik. Best Turkish in town, no argument.
EAST HAM - Thattukada for Keralan at 241 High Street
MARE ST - Tre Viet, Vietnamese. Full sit down meal for less than a tenner a head. Unless you have wine.
MARE ST - Tad Restaurant - 255 Mare St. Best salad lamacun for £1.90 or full meal for less than £10.
MIDDLESEX ST (88-90) - My Old Place, Szechuan. Always busy. Huge plates of delicious authentic food and not just for meat eaters. Cash only.
SHOREDITCH - Calvert Ave (by shoreditch church), Home cooked thai that is made from seasonal veg. Irene, who runs it, is a real character. I can recommend the duck, pork belly and fish (cooked in tangy mango chilli sauce). Spring rolls + main + crumble for 2 = £25 - £30 and BYOB or wine.
WHITECHAPEL - Indo opposite Whitechapel Mosque for superb pizzas & a great bar
WHITECHAPEL RD - LaHore Pakistani / Kebab. Boom good and super cheap.
WHITECHAPEL – Needoos, as good as Tayyebs, but cheaper and less queuing
WHITECHAPEL RD – Tayyabs. Brilliant Pakistani food, again, super cheap and super super good. Booking essential.

WEST
BAYSWATER – Taza. Amazing falafel for about £3, just don't eat it standing up or you'll be wearing tahini
EDGWARE RD – Mandalay for Burmese food, unfancy looking, incredible food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking essential
EDGWARE RD - Kandoo for Persian is very good, a few doors down the road from Mandalay
EDGWARE RD - Patogh for Persian just off Edgware rd (by cafe Nero).
LADBROKE GROVE - Fez Mangal - Turkish BBQ with BYO IIRC. Good selection of meat and vegetarian dishes that won't break the bank - £20 will feed 2, easily.
NOTTING HILL GATE, The Churchill Arms on Kensington Church St. Pub on the front, but authentic cheap Thai restaurant round the back.
PADDINGTON - Bonda Cafe 190 Sussex Gardens W2 1TU. Kopi Tiam Malaysia style. Nasi Goreng and Teh Tarik for £6 they also serve a nice Nasi Campur
PORTOBELLO RD - Makan will give you change from a tenner. Best nasi campur I've come across.
SHEPHERDS BUSH - Next to Barclays on Uxb Rd. Great kebabs but do a mix of Afghan/Lebanese/Pakistani so the curries make a perfect sit down meal, about £6 per person
SOUTH KENSINGTON - Little Japan, tiny cafe, huge bentoes for about £5, cheap for a massive lunch
KENSAL RISE / QUEENS PARK - Ida; Italian restaurant - great value, ever changing menu, lunchtime 3 course deals too

CENTRAL
CHARING CROSS - East/West - Indonesian, mains approx £6.50 very hot and spicy (easy to miss, on your left as you go upstairs in their small food court) WC2H 0NE.
DEAN ST - French House does bavette & frites for about £10 mon - fri lunch
EXMOUTH MARKET EC1 - Morito - Small but perfectly formed tapas/mezze bar next door to sister restaurant Moro. Dishes from £2.50. Veggie dishes are about £4, specials a bit more. Great sherries.
GOODGE ST - Le Pain du Jour, big, well-filled baguettes from £1.80, cheap baked potatoes and soup as well
JUDD ST - The King of Falafel, Judd St/Tavistock place - I like falafel, what can I say. This place is fantastic though, their 'moroccan bread' is a bit more expensive but stuffed with tomato or spinach and wrapped round really good falafel and salad. Best halloumi I've tasted as well
LEATHER LANE - Sara's Food Store & King of Falafel. £4 for a lunch box of hot Turkish yum or about £3.50 for a falafel. Authentic and tasty.
OLD COMPTON ST - Maoz, Delicious falafel in pitta for about £3.70, but with a sort of unlimited all-you-can-eat salad bar which they let you take the piss with. You just eat the filling from your pitta, fill it up again, take it back, repeat until bursting.
PICCADILLY - Yoshino, must be the cheapest sushi in London. Shrink-wrapped in plastic but really good. £2.50 for a vegetarian lunch box
POLAND ST - Kati Roll Company - Kati Rolls starting at £2.75, grilled flatbreads with delicious fillings, open till late (now licensed)
REGENT STREET - Japan Centre - almost anything Japanese, love the dorayaki pancakes and korrokkes
TACHBROOK ST MARKET, PIMLICO: Falafel Bros - £3 for a fantastic wrap with lots of filling. Check out the other stalls here too inc. the Mexican street food one.
WARDOUR ST - Misato - great japanese fast food, bento box £8.60, huge queues on busy days, massive quantities
WEBBER ST - El Vergel, chilean goods at 132 Webber Street
WIGMORE ST - Comptoir Libanais - nice modern Lebanese food, canteen style cafe, sub £10
EUSTON - Yen Chinese, Doric Way. Cheap, yummy, scary exterior. £5.80 for two course.
EUSTON - RASA Express, Euston Road opposite Euston Tower - two curries, rice, bread, pickle and dessert for £4 (vegetarian) or £4.50 (meat) - really good quality food as well
EUSTON - Diwana, Drummond St. Vegetarian Indian food, BYO from the offie next door. Awesome eat all you like buffet for lunch. Very authentic (according to my more travelled friends)
WARREN STREET - YMCA Indian Student Hostel, 41 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 6AQ Lunch and supper 12:00-2:00 and 7:00-8:30

I just bought one of these

I was going to get the MSR Hubba, but came across the Laser Comp on sale (£200 instead of £330). It only weighs 930g!!!!

I'm going to play cubbies in the back garden this weekend and can't wait!

Hey Bec, I've checked and they're actually a 42 (UK 7.5).

They are also a bit less garish than the current colours (grey and black) and in pretty good nick.
If you give me an email address, I'll send you some pics.

Pedals are these
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-pd-m520-pedals/
currently £17.50 (which is half price) at Wiggle

Shoes and pedals for £35 to pick up central London?

I have some! Basically an older version of these:
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-m10-mountain-bike-cycling-shoe/
Think they're a size 7.
Got on with them fine, but just got sick of lugging spare shoes about with me.
Also got some shimano egg beater pedals if you want those as well. I'm in Peckham, but work around Old st. Any good? I'll dig them out and check the condition.

PMed re bike bag.

Hey is the backpack still available? Any chance of a new pic if it is?

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Does no one have the power to make it wiggle?! Please make it wiggle for me!

Thanks guys....
The mudguards I've already managed to take care of (just have to fix them to the bike which I've heard in itself is a bit of a mission).
I've already got one of the 25L Ortleib and would like a larger one (40L).

The cables however I am very interested in. How long are they? I was hoping for something big enough to go around bike/gear and a non-moveable object!

I think the only differences is that the city rollers don't have a shoulder strap.
In my experience a shoulder strap is something I definitely want otherwise carrying your gear off the bike is a paff.

If you're just using them for about town, then don't get these (40L)
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/ortlieb-back-roller-classic-panniers/
as they're massive.

If you just want a single smaller Ortlieb one, I'm selling a single black ortlieb front roller (25L)
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/ortlieb-front-roller-classic-panniers/

It's in really good condition.

I need to buy a pair of back roller classics as I'm going touring across Europe this summer and need the capacity. I was hoping to pick up a single 2nd had one to compliment the front roller that I've got, but no luck. Think I'll have to suck it up and spend the £80 on a new pair :(

PM me if you're interested in the single for £35.

I'm going to order a frame bag today (pay day - yay!)

I can't decide between the Alpkit or Buggybags - prices are about the same.

Buggybags use 1000d Heavy Weight Coated Nylon (Waterproof) and have velcro the entire length of the tubes - can any one see pros/cons regarding this Vs smaller velcro tabs?

The Alpkit ones are 100D cordura so probably less waterproof?

My fabric knowledge is light.

Also, if I went for the buggybags one, would it matter that my rear brake cable that runs exposed along most of the top tube would probably end up encased?

Did these get sold? If not I'm interested!

I'm still after some bits for touring this summer.

After accidentally corroding a thread on the one I had (a little too long in caustic soda I fear!), I now need a rear pannier rack.

Also after the following if anyone can help out:
2nd hand Garmin 800
Flat pedals like some DMR V8s
A lightweight soft bike bag (for taking bikes on trains)
A decent handlebar bag like the Carradice Super C (though hopefully something slightly more attractive)
7ft Kryptonite cable
A decent hand pump like the Lezyne Tech Drive
A 2L camel hydration bladder
Head torch

Anyone?

https://www.lfgss.com/thread104768.html#post3534693

Nice people, nice house and better location than north east!

First forum ride for AGES. Apologies for ducking off without so much as a 'Goodbye' at Old Kent Rd. I had to take my rank cough home to bed.

Glen - you got a linky for your mates touring adventure?

1. Whatok
   
2. Cafewanda
   
3. doppelkorn
   
4. Hefty
   
5. stedlocks
   
6. MrDrem
   
7. Ludd
   
8. AllezSzmyd
   
9. Buckaroo
   
10. hats
    
11. Chainbreaker +3
    
12. OldSkoolRacer +1
    
13. Hovis
    
14. laner
    
15. Tricitybenix
    
16. pt
    
17. Doctor Cake
    
18. Howard
    
19. vunugu
    
20. Hairy
    
21. Tanya g
    
22. Ed!
    
23. T4
    
24. hms
    
25. Arben Zilci
    
26. jakemcree
    
27. FixedCheese
    
28. Poots
    
29. Mr Poots
    
30. TooTallTim
    
31. Benj
    
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Tell kattIep if she want my old handlebar bag, if not, do you?

Hey Ed, That would be ace.....Give me a chance to see how I get on with it before I buy one of my own.

Can I grab those brake adapters off you pre-Thus? I'm dropping my bike off to BC on Thus for Jim to work his magic so need them by then! Cheers.

We were thinking of having one night in Paris on the way there... so pack bikes up in Sth London, get a god awful early bus to Kings X. Euro * to Paris and then the metro across town. Stay in a hotel near montparnasse station station for an 8am train to Bordeaux. Put bikes back together. Cycle.
Then I think we're going to do a monumental train commute from Montpellier - Avignon - Paris (change stations) - London. That is going to be a fun day with about 10 hours on 3 trains and a metro.

Going to get the Euro star London to Paris (night in Paris) then the TGV onto Bordeaux the following day.... plan is to cycle to Montpellier on the Canal du Midi.

Am seriously considering the laundry bag thing as to check bikes on Euro* is now £30 each way and the TGV is 10 Euro each way bumping up the price of getting there and back considerably.

Also, they don't make it easy.... Euro* you book your tkt then phone to reserve bike space, if there isn't any - bad luck and you can't get a refund on your ticket. Stoopid system.

When using it, concentrate on the roll of the hips, and the technique of the arms, body postion and breathing.

Enjoy !

And timing your stroke with your breath! When you really nail that you glide through the water like a knife through butter (hard to maintain for ages though)

The mental diet actually comes from Dax Moy
http://www.daxmoy.com/

Matt used to work there but didn't quite believe in the rigidity of it all (plus they seem like intense nutters) so now he's doing his own thing.

If anyone was thinking of getting a personal trainer for a while, I can recommend Matt.
He works out of a studio on Wharf Rd just off City Rd between Angel and Old St.
He's really flexible with hours and great at tailoring a program to meet your needs - plus he mixes it up so you don't get bored/quite know what to expect.
If you mention Kat, or the cycling forum he'll do you a sweet deal.
Website - http://www.mattmcelligottpt.co.uk/#
email - info@mattmcelligottpt.co.uk
PM me if you want a mobile number or some more details.

Think we're going to do this end of June. Need to suss trains and stuff!