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wouldn't ride this one in the rain, hands may slip off of the bars...

Those gravity bike don't have a drivetrain thought?

probably needs it for getting back up the hill ;)

probably a gravity bike.

edit - found some photos, does look it;

ta, and nice pic! Quality mini BMX from 'back in de day'TM with oakley endorsed plate!!

far from anti, it was build for a purpose after all.

Stayer??

Just noticed the gears (blinded by all the other bits going on), so it's not. Intrigued as to what it's for...

I lived in Groningen for a year, I love it there. Amazing city to ride in and great surrounding areas too, just missed hills when I was there!

only downside is that it takes a whole bucket of phlegm to pronounce Groningen in Dutch!

Anyone know where I can get a decent collarless shirt, not something you'd find in a sunday supplement ad next to the stair lifts. I'm thinking like my old Ben Sherman 'grandad', had square ends to the collar, cream and mixed pinstriping.

I won't be doing the top button up.

Levi's had a couple for spring. One cream/stripes and one navy/stripes. Check sale rails in their stores or failing that their Factory Outlets.

Them bars must be for popping 'dem solid wheelies, barspins n like trix n stuff'

disclaimer - spelling incorrect and language changed to highlight absurdity of set-up and likely reason for building such an atrocious set-up -

Greggs on Upper James Street.
Food for the week sorted!

Ta

Now off to bed. Need my energy for tomorrow, to read through the 30,000+ posts that Hippy has made since I was last on. Even though at least 20,000 of them will just contain the word meh!

Already beaten to it by the look of things

https://www.lfgss.com/thread28404.html#post1573265

Am sure he's got both of them outfits in his closet.

Don't tell me he's been given admin rights? Pah, I'm not scared of him...

(runs and hides for another 6 months)

any chance you can start posting on here again and help dilute the nonsense?

Hippy still not been banned then, sheesh!!

Very good my friend. Been...ahem....busy :)

Nice that two people missed me, that's two more than I would have bet on.

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

Mark Twain

Only just seen this. Sad news.
Paul, never met you man, but enjoyed the forum banter.

RIP

Christmas '84.

And still mine.

A real beaut!
Best thing on that is the pedals. And the way they used to imbed themselves in your shins ;)

Im pretty sick of not finding any high waisted mens jeans,

Wagamama gets my vote.

When the staff have finished servicing Tynan, they put up with my kid throwing his noodles all over the place. Which could well be a metaphor for what happened to Tynan, hmmm deep!

I read it as pet tramp

Will. A novel is required:

"The Reality of Being Balki"

As opposed to my autobiography:

"The reality of being bulky."

Can rep. Very good that man, very good!

The bike was dead. As dead as a newbie asking for advice on what tyres are best for skidding. It had died the way my dreams of a wife, two kids and a white picket fence had died the day Balki walked in.
I watched the cops draw a chalk outline round the hybrid and glanced at Balki. He was smiling that mysterious smile and as the street lights caught his chiseled cheekbones, I thought "Nice build".
I knew Balki had killed that bike and Balki knew I knew. Like two nodders on a busy roundabout we were locked in a square dance of damnation. "Fancy a pint?" he asked. "Yeh" I said, looking once more at the cops. I could tell them, turn him in and let them break him like a hoodie breaks a cheap d-lock. I could put all this behind me, forget about it just like you forget about your first OTP from Evans. But I couldn't. Balki had me in a grip tighter than Park Tools workstand.
We found a dive just off the hipster highway and Balki ordered two pink gins and a packet of pork scratchings. Just when you thought you had him figured out he'd surprise you. He made the service in BLB look predictable, he made the Bloomsbury bike lane look like the yellow brick road, he made every Bob Jackson look the same. Which they are.
"Why d'you do it Balki?" I asked.
"I fucken hate hybrids mate. They're weird"
"You killed that unicycle in Clapton too didn't you?"
"Unicycle's are shit".
He had a point.
"How many more Balki?"
"I topped a tandem in Tooting"
"Why?"
"Alliteration FTW"
He was mad, mad as using toe clips and straps in a world full of Time ATACS, mad as trusting a Halford's mechanic, mad as a baby blue fixie.
"It's time to go". As we unlocked what was left of our bikes and made notes of where we'd gone wrong so we could let GA2G know in the morning that question came back to me: Is Balki real? It didn't matter: I'd seen grown men checking each other's saddles and eating Wasabi Peas; I'd seen Xmas tree lights that were brighter than Knogs; I'd lived too long in this fixed up city to care any more. If Balki wasn't real, like a Unicorn or a cheap Rapha hat isn't real, then that's just the way the it was. He was my Current Project.

Must spread myself before I can rep WW again!
Genius!!

Like a Scoble and a BJ we were meant to be. Only with fewer photographs.

I'd nominate that for comment of the year :)

MTB shoes and Speedplay Frogs - job done, loadsa float and very easy in/out.

+1
Have the same set up and never had a problem. Haven't tried Time Atacs to compare but no complaints with the Frogs.

Edwin did some goretex lined jeans ages ago.

Had a pair of those to review. Nice idea but not the most comfortable to wear against the skin. They also did a windstopper pair as well.

What is selvedge?

It's the white band on the end of cloth woven on (usually) narrow looms. Name comes from Self edge, as the process in the loom finishes the edge itself so that it doesn't fray.

Unlike modern wider looms where the edge is finished afterwards.