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saw a girl trying to chain lock her bike to a bollard just off brick lane the other day. Amazing.

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spotted a silver brakeless langster with bare silver bullhorns on the strand this morning.

That thing looks fucking terrifying to ride, must be on here.

Hadn't heard of this site before so I went googling and saw "Colour co-ordinated white components: Great for an understated, subtle look for your bike" on the homepage and almost choked to death laughing on my lemonade. Does seem pretty good though, dubious understanding of "subtlety" aside.

If you're looking for white components you're sorted though :)

that aside I've had a couple of wheelsets off him, one super cheap to replace a stolen set (lasted v well indeed given price), and more recently some mavic open pros on ambrosio hubs (also for a very good price imo). Last time he threw in a couple of lock rings and I had to force him to take a few quid for some riser bars too. Really nice guy, not a one-stop-shop in terms of stock, but I will def use him again when appropriate.

also while I have to say I normally find Evans very hit and miss there's a really decent bloke in the Fenchurch st branch (may well be on here) who sorted out my loose headset and drivetrain rattle for nowt one afternoon the other week. Very helpful fella and improved their reputation in my mind.

Matt at Singlespeedcomponents.co.uk for being consistently cheap, helpful, overly generous and a generally nice bloke.

Also had a very good experience at Cloud 9 Cycles nr Goodge St who were more than happy to accept a bin bag full of old components and wheels to build up onto a new Brother frame, did a damn good job of it, charged considerably less than BLB and Kinoko.quoted me for the same work, and made a few recommendations without automatically upselling and replacing parts. You, sirs, will have more repeat business from me.

ditto, much appreciated mate, pleasure doing business

miraculously seems to have sorted out my wonky knee as well.

I hope he sneezes and a big lump of phlegm lands in his hand and he has nowhere to wipe it so he tries to eat it to get rid of it, but some of it stays stuck to his hand and the rest goes down his chin, and when he finally manages to scoop the whole lot back into his mouth he realises several people have been watching attentively throughout

I hope he has a burrito for lunch and a big piece gets stuck between his front teeth and he doesn't notice it until he gets home that evening and wonders why nobody pointed it out

tentative saddle dibs if it's not sold yet

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Bloke in a badly fitting suit on a boris (/ken) bike with the saddle set 6" too low and headphones in undertaking a left turning bus on a sharp corner at aldgate - if the driver hadn't seen him at the last second he would've been ketchup. They should have some sort of IQ test at the bike hire points.

Reported a guy in a silver car who overtook a stationary car to go steaming through a set of red lights, nearly taking out me waiting at the lights and a ped on the crossing

police response "there's probably nothing we can do but I'll put an alert out". Better than nothing I suppose.

on the offchance anyone sees the numberplate LT10 BVS please feel free to take a shit on his bonnet, kick his wing mirrors off or spit through his open window. Megacunt.

bit late but should prob pop up and say hi. Was on the forum years ago (as Samc411 or something similar) but can't for the life of me remember the old login details. Was a bit of a lurker and only had about 10 posts anyway :)

After a few years on an old banger of a Peugeot SS (a rather un-modest blue gold white and yellow combo) I've recently upgraded to a black brother cycles build with one of the pretty F5 lattice chainrings and a set of mavic OPs. Hell of a difference to the old beater, and loving riding fixed since it stopped feeling like it was trying to kill me. Look forward to meeting a few people on here properly.

I reckon I know where this is. Bet I get tagzumped before I get to it though.

slow clap to the douche who undertook me on whitechapel road while the lights were red, dismounted to run round a bus on the pavement and then ran directly in front of it to awkwardly remount once the lights had already gone green. He then seemed unable to shift gear so pedalled furiously along at 5mph while being re-overtaken by everyone 30m later.

saw some guy on a nice chrome lo-pro, clipless with black deep H+S rear wheel (I think) on the way to work today along whitechapel road. Was going to DAS but then he did one anyway.

if Hazzer changes mind about the lights let me know, could be interested,. I've broken the clip bit of my front light and am thoroughly fed up with blu-tacking it in place

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or this:
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if you end up splitting any bits out I might be interested in the filming viewfinder

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Just switched from knackered old freewheel on knackered old wheels (silent) to fixed cog on new wheels, and am now getting a constant clicking purr at any kind of speed.

The rest of the bike is about a month old, drivetrain looks fine, chain pretty much new, wheels seem fine to the relatively untrained eye - where's the f*cking noise coming from?! Could it be spoke tension?

Any advice much appreciated.

seems like they'd need to magic up about another 4m of road width to fit all that in to me, although protected cycle lanes round there might not be a bad thing. That said I've seen more ped collisions on those nearby on Tavistock Place than anywhere else, so they'd need some proper signs and road markings to stop lemmings blindly walking across them.

How much worse can it be I guess.

I'll probably take the backpack cover off you if it's still going. Will PM.

what those in the know will be riding next season

that is lovely. If I'd seen this a fortnight ago I probably would have bitten your arm off, dammit.