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1. Are you ever going to run it SS?
   
   

I'd like to keep the option, and I don't want to spend too much money on the bike because it'll hold back the build I really want to do on a new frame.

1. Do you like the cockpit? Are you going to keep the risers etc?
   
   

I do quite like the risers, actually, for every day riding. A nicer mtb stem is a good call, yes.

1. Strip cranks back to silver and leave silver. (they'll fit nicely with the silver hubs and spokes on your new rear.
   
   

Definitely beginning to agree with this; I'll try it and if I don't like it I'll paint them over.

Thanks for the good ideas. I'll update the list.

make sure you buy a stem that is the correct clamp diameter for your bars next time.

Yeah, might do. Will see how I feel at the time.

Really sorry but I can't work how to embed images.

Balancing my tiny bike on the edge of the chess table in Penn Road Gardens:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21259299@N07/7365077136/in/photostream/lightbox/

One quite a few people will know, but a nice excuse to pay a visit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21259299@N07/7179849467/in/photostream/lightbox/

So this is more of a "public consultation" really. What the council do before going ahead and bulldozing the library anyway.

Precisely.

1. Change that massive brick of a stem and sort the stem spacers out
   
2. Find a saddle that actually matches the colour scheme (black/orange Charge - ordered)
   
3. Paint the rear rim black
   
4. Take that God-awful crank off, soak it in Nitro-Mors, then spray it any other colour
   
5. let Gaston and scoble be the final arbiters of the build
   
6. get those 'maurice' stickers off
   
7. Any road-style cheap black stem
   
8. Colour ALL the orange bits black (except maybe the headset)
   
9. chuck some compact drops (eg Bontrager SSC - VRC) and road brake levers on it
   
10. mudguards?
    
11. put a bottle cage on it
    
12. get it in the bin (this is the last resort)
    
13. Just learn to love it.
    
14. Then bin it.
    
15. raw the cranks, then polish them up
    
16. paint over the sticker
    
17. just wrap it in duct tape
    
18. Nitromorz the everythingz
    
19. Bin it
    
    

This is getting out of hand.

1. Change that massive brick of a stem and sort the stem spacers out
   
2. Find a saddle that actually matches the colour scheme (black/orange Charge - ordered)
   
3. Paint the rear rim black
   
4. Take that God-awful crank off, soak it in Nitro-Mors, then spray it any other colour
   
5. let Gaston and scoble be the final arbiters of the build
   
6. get those 'maurice' stickers off
   
7. Any road-style cheap black stem
   
8. Colour ALL the orange bits black (except maybe the headset)
   
9. chuck some compact drops (eg Bontrager SSC - VRC) and road brake levers on it
   
10. mudguards?
    
11. put a bottle cage on it
    
12. get it in the bin (this is the last resort)
    
    

Thanks to lemonade for all the ideas.
The maurice 'sticker' is actually laquer, does it need Nitro-Mors on that as well?

so if enough of us say bin it, will the democratic process win?

As in most democracies, not many people actually have a say most of the time. You'll notice above I had anticipated this response, hence "I'll be putting the **best **suggestions into practice."

I won't be binning the bike, otherwise I'll have to join the London Strong Legs and Walking Boots forum instead.

1. midsummermouse
   
2. la poots
   
3. Sweats
   
4. ian (conker)
   
5. itsbahhumbugbruce
   
6. stompy (I might be able to lead the ride from CS to LB)
   
7. what? ok.
   
8. Linkpin Solstice
   
   

The word solstice comes from Latin solstitium or sol (the sun) + -stit-, -stes (standing). The summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, which is located at 23.5° latitude North.

Lovely, thank you for your input.

1. Change that massive brick of a stem and sort the stem spacers out
   
2. Find a saddle that actually matches the colour scheme (black/orange Charge - ordered)
   
3. Paint the rear rim black
   
4. Take that God-awful crank off, soak it in Nitro-Mors, then spray it any other colour
   
5. let Gaston and scoble be the final arbiters of the build
   
6. get those 'maurice' stickers off
   
   

Helpful input so far (feeling slightly nervous about number 5, though).
Any suggestions for the stem?

I know a lot of people don't like the Maurice, but I need something solid to commute on while I build a 'proper' bike, and this has been doing me proud for the last couple of years.

That said, there's no excuse for it looking as it does now, so I'd like to hear people's suggestions for improvement; bear in mind the bike is used every day, but beyond that you can suggest anything you want. Rat build? Slave wannabee? I'll be putting the best suggestions into practice.

I'll start the list off myself:

1. Change that massive brick of a stem and sort the stem spacers out
   
2. Find a saddle that actually matches the colour scheme
   
3. Ditch that rear rim for something that doesn't make me vomit, fuckwit
   
   

On you go.

Maybe another clue?

The one about 'yarn' was something to do with VCF having its own knitting club, I think (yes, really).

A very moving note on the bike from Dan's mum, put there three days ago on what would have been his thirtieth birthday. I've added a few tears to the spot where his bike's been moved to.

Currently loving 'Arabian Nights and Days' by Naguib Mahfouz. Proper old-fashioned, mad mystical storytelling.

^ No worries. Good writing needs very little editing, to be honest. (By the way, I think we went to school together.)

Reading 'Pedalling to Hawaii' by Stevie Smith.
It is such a good read. One of those easy to read and thoroughly enjoyable books.

I edited the reissue of that book back in my old days as an editor. Glad you like it!

Thanks both, makes sense.

1. If it was locked? If so, what lock(s) were used?
   

Out of interest, what's the benefit of posting this information? Just curious.

Don't give up pepo to the popo.

I think Pepo would poo-poo the popo.

Just nipping out to look for my glasses, won't be long...

Flipped Alter ftw

Check out that oil tanker of a stem!

Proper wanky, that.

Did it back-to-front today - didn't want to miss out again.

I wondered how it had gone so quickly; I've just found this thread and thought it looked like fun but I was miles too slow, apparently. Still, got me out on the bike, so nothing lost.

it certianbly looks nicer than when i was painted lime green.

I'll bet it does. Did it come off ok in the bath?

The two policemen on those terrible police mountain bikes who've just pulled across the traffic in Delancey Street, Camden and through a No Entry sign, then shouted at the woman they nearly hit (for 'not looking'), and shortly afterwards at me for 'sticking your nose in' when I tried to explain to them what they'd done.

Perhaps if the sign had read 'Popo No Go'...