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sweet work!

hope you find something, londons full of surprises, i'm sure you'll bag some fellow print lover.

yurp.

lol at taiwaneese bike holders

girl on right doesn't want the race to start
girl second from right is rocking a very hip hipster bike holder
girl third from right wishs she was girl on right

really good to see people coming together to recover and weed out the crooks. everyone I've spoken to in london has had a whole bike or parts thereof nicked since living there, more of the time from houses/ halls/sheds/front railings of buildings rather than office & city locations, I would have thought it was the other way around.

IS there some organised outward export of bikes from london to some other parts of the country, say oxford, camberidge, bristol, manchester to avoid identity/recovery, or is that too organised?
where I live in the lake district crime comes in spates as gangs of vans drive up from liverpool, manchester, leeds/brapford set up camp out of a travellodge somewhere, then go about filling their vans from raids on various villages (one per night), then return south to sell stuff, which is rarely ever recovered as its out of our constabulary region.

Lost 2 bikes from a 3ft thick walled shed which were shackled to a homemade anchor bolt. they attacked chain, gave up on that, attacked the anchor, gave up on that, attacked the frame then thought better of it and jack hammered a 1ft cubic chunk out of the floor using our own gear (stupidly stored in the same shed), very distintive beast, reported to have been seen once by another forum member (mbuk back in the day) at a jump spot, and stupidly had never checked house insurance covered it, it didn't :(

Hello persons of LFGSS

I'm after a pair of black part worn treads, 27" and as narrow as they go (1 1/8"???), also as cheap as they go, but only if its possible to post them as I live at the diagonally opposite end of the country to most of you guys (lake district).
Bike is a dawes flambeau saved from a council tip related death.
Thanks :p

yup cheers!

took me ages to work out that 700c is actually smaller (3/4"??) than 27". as i've heard them reffered to as 28" and 29er's before. now 29ers in mtb'world are huge, like penny farthings, so many road 29er and mtb 29er are different things also?

Found continental ultrasports for £11 a piece in black in 27x 1 1/8" delivered. so £22/23 all up which seems fair enough to me. Loads of people complaining about extremely poor puncture resistance.
Of the other 27"ers I found they were all either reflective or gum wall, yuk, don't know who invented them but they make bikes look aweful :/

thinking more about at peak times..... you've managed to beat an old granny to the station, got the last working bike out of the dock, but oh noes, you needed to get a bottle of milk, either lock it to something outside newsagent or put back in the dock and have to walk home...
That was kind of my issue. I.E both strike days I've had to walk back across most of london (some 6-7miles) as all the working bikes have been out of the stations (those grannies are niftier than me lol).

your right about cheap locks though, there wouldn't be the huge bike theft 'scene' (as a non-londoner I would regard it as such) if more bikes were secured more erm, securely! saying that, where DO all the stolen bikes go? they can't all end up on bricklane on a sunday morning, surely there is some sort of mass export of cycles out of london to.... .bristol, cambridge, oxford ??

+1 for boris bikes

not being able to afford the £8 something a day for tfl travel card each and every day I'm in london I managed to get a bike pass, its just £1 a day and I only occasionally go over th 30mins, take 5min break, look at where I'm going, walk about, take some candids of people on 60's camera, rebike, move to next destination.
iv'e found tehm massively heavy and unwieldy things, but costing just a quid and allowing me to work my way around london freely is defanatly worth that to me. haven't managed to find the blue cycle lane thingies and often struggle to find the docking stations in time, they are so poorly signposted! I've seen maps that look similar to the bike maps, obviously very recent additions to the london cityscape yet hte bike docking points aren't on them? Instead i have one of the phone apps for it, but time loading and getting lcoation often means I run over my 30mins, grrrr.

Also why don't they have quick locks like the paris/milan/barcelona ones do? on the outskirts of town if you put a bike back in a rack it will go and leave you walking for ages to find another,,, this all brings me to building a cheap hack for london in future, which I'll just leave chained up somewhere (hopefully).

hey guys. long time watcher thanks to a few others who I only recently discover ride aswell. I'm all new to these pram wheeled things, normally plumming for something with significantly moah boeuf and usually caked in the freshest mud the lake district can afford.

my need for a more urban bike has brought me here and there is an absolute wealth of info. nursery has certainly made me search just that little bit harder before posting 'erm how do I...' and I've found what I was looking for.

well... erm... could do with a pair of 27" black tyres aswell :p

very interested in your pan100 & pan400 should you decide to sell. haven't got any other film to trade though. did't know jessops sold bulk as recently as that!

pin spanner/ decent circlip pliers would have it away wouldn't it? good idea though, seen similar for locking electrical access panels etc

oh, talking of less, the hilux cost less to hire for 7days than the vw polo cost for 5days. Iguess because of the damage & wear that the polo will take over the pickup. just a note.

+1 on the wind problem in Iceland!
we drove around clockwise in 2008, partly in a small car and the rest we hired a hilex pickup to basharound the eastern interior.
on the return stretch along the southeasten-southwestern coastal stretch we routinely came across touring cyclists having a hard time, sometimes it would take them days of being 'blown in' before they could move off again. we visited in october and the weather was hard enough to drive in (got her on 2wheels!!!!) just west of hofn (pronounced 'hup') we spent a few hours ferrying destroyed riders trying to get along the road. whilst carrying 4bikes+persons in the flatbed we narrowly avoided a guy riding a racer get blown clean off the bike, scuffed along tarmac infront of us and blwon into the boulder field, it was like being in a hurricane, we went back and with the others tried to salvage as much of his gear from the boulder field as possible (lost maps, wallet, various clothing items and a small bag, not to mention a trashed frame, carbon racer + rocks = fail), put him in the back then drove back to hofn for hospital, reckon he had sprained a wrist.
we dropped the rest of the riders at the other end of the bad straight (about 30km) then went back for another 2 who couldn't fit the first time round.

so yeah, iceland in october = prepare for wind strong enough to blow you AND your bike clean off the road. apart from that, unreal place, literally unreal, and the people are brilliant too, like most nordic's very accomodating friendly and knowledgable on important stuff, reccomend it to anyone. Not expensive either! the icelandic banks going down has pretty much destroyed their economy, at the time we visited stuff was the same price as the UK, or less :D

     “The dual keg toting pub-on-wheels sports an aluminum pan with fifty feet of draft coil, two custom taps, inlaid old-growth woodwork bar with a split top for easy access to the kegs, an MP3 sound system modeled after a motorcycle’s hard pannier bag, and a back rack capable of holding three large pizzas for the unavoidable crowd that forms every time the bike stops.”

I want to see this being ridden! in traffic, infact no, just any kind of ridden .... :)