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is that now on ebay? its just what i need...

the detail on the drop outs and the straight forks look very similar....

I just looked at the Unipack website...are those bikes IRO frames?

I hear angus steakhouses are very popular...

the police told him to stop, and he didn't. Why is he consulting lawyers?

ha! The cat would just get stolen....

I agree with the fact that their are good and bad people in all walks of life, I just was blown away by the kindness of this bloke. Maybe London made me forget most people are nice.

Now if I can find a bus driver with some common sense....

what website are they from?

Hello, long time reader, first time thread starter..

I thought I should share an incident with you from yesterday. I was riding home down towards Rotherhithe and I came off my bike at speed after catching my wheel on something as I jumped between a slow rider and a black cab.

I was on the deck with the cab parked over my bike (he stopped in time before any real damage was done to me or my bike) and the cabbie jumped out and asked if I was alright. I said I thought I was fine (I wasn't) then started to apologise to him as essentially I had cut him up. We were both visibly shaken and he then pulled his cab over, then insisted he drive me and my bike home.

He drove me all the way home to Catford. We had a nice chat; he dropped me off, shook hands then went his way.
The bloke was pretty shocked at the fact he could have run me over, and I was pretty angry at my own stupid riding - mainly for the affect I had on this poor bloke

Whilst chatting to him realised that his biggest fear was knocking riders down, and it seemed that no matter what he did to drive safe they constantly put themselves in danger around him (blind spots etc)

The whole incident has restored my faith in humanity, although my leg is now f’cked and I think I have slight concussion – my lid took fair whack.

ahh, great journalism prevails at the Metro once again. So it was the woman who was stabbed earlier in the week in peckham who was on the bike.

Ta.

On the cover of the Metro this morning it mentions a woman cyclist being stabbed to death last night, although there is no further mention of it inside or elsewhere on the web.

Anyone heard anymore on this one?

Didn't go down too well in NYC either... http://gothamist.com/2008/02/03/guerilla_market.php

I have just been out for some lunch and saw another one over the road from McDonalds. Not only is it taking up a parking space for a bike they have turned it 90 degrees to the bike rack for maximum impact.

This will bring the Bill Hicks out in me soon.

There is one locked up between John Lewis and House of Fraser on Oxford Street, I can see the ugly thing from my window.

I am not sure what Nathan Barley type thought that spraying a crappy old MTB bright orange would be a good idea but I am sure it went down a storm in the 'pitch'.

tynan/pipwish, they look great, I bow down to your speed and design skills!

I know badrider was seriously peeved when he lost his wheels at that pub (left unlocked for only 45 minutes...if any one is selling wheels with green deep V's and blue phil hubs give me a shout, although I suspect they are long gone...)

There are quite few designers on this site, it would be great if someone could knock up a professional looking sign to put up saying "professional bike thieves operating in this area".

The more offical looking the better, and the better the chance of it not being taken down.

As it stands I will never be visiting that pub on a bike.

pilky -

thats over the road from the parliamentary estate. Any bikes locked there are removed. same for whitehall.

I think we need to start looking at the real issue here, and thats demand. Somewhere there are people buying very specific, niche bike parts on the stolen black market.

This is either being done to order or people are nicking bikes and using the parts to build other rides to sell to a booming market.

Two years ago these scum would have been targeting mountain bikes, and now the scene has become so big and fashionable they have switched to fixes and s/s's.

Where are the bikes and parts being sold if they are not on ebay/gumtree or bricklane market??

Sorted this problem last night.

Hippy, your mantra worked with a combination of more leverage.

Cheers all.

Hippy what is HTFU?

Cheers for the help.

HTFU??

I did grease it, am pretty sure I am pushing the right way.

Not sure where I am going to get 6 ft of scaffolding pole though..

I have the freewheel remover (which is not a van.....)

Maybe leverage is my problem, will try that as I was just using a short spanner.

Hello,

I put a freewheel on my new back wheel last week, but as it was an 18t I want to swap it for a new 16t.

the trouble is I can't get the bugger off. I have checked Sheldon, but he advises a vice, which I don't own.

I have all the tools, and have hit it with a big bit of wood, but to no avail.

Any tips?

he'll be on the roof...

cheers - seems to be sold out though.

Been searching the web all morning but can't seem to find a cheapish rear wheel.