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- Kingcutter +28 (great service on every transaction) - super professional + fast delivery + great packaging + just what it says on the tin.. [jeez agrees]
- RetroDiCorsa +13 He is the Man!
- broken_777 +5 Excellent speedy wheel builds at a great price and mega strong
- socialamnesia +5 (very Excellent - total dude- more than helpful. cannot fault.)
- Joe1983 +3
- East End Images +3 very cheap and very quick, a lovely chap
- Benjybars +2
- Hilarystone (of course-he's like the lfgss Tesco, but better) +17
- PeterV +7 (extremely helpful)
- zieleman +3
- Tel +16 - friendly, fast and fantastic packaging.
- Rik +5
- Andy.W +1
- Varno +7 (throughly nice chap)
- Arup +2
- Simplex NL +9 (extremely nice and an excellent bike packer)
- Dogsballs wheel builds -alarmingly quick but good wheel builds) +2
- Pistoffski +8 (super polite & straight up, delivered just as promised)
- Roy Airs
- Pistanator +1
- Fox
- Roberto (example to follow) +2
- Jermaine Jackson
- Carl
- Forms
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- Archie's Grobags +3
- Nuknow +4
- Platini
- colnago_costa +20 (posted before I paid, what a gent)
- Temper_Temper
- velocipede65
- JIMMEH (very quickly delivered.) +1
- dmczone +4 (very professional and good service)
- teenslain +1 top sowf london geezer
- snowyagain
- spaghettihoops +2
- RPM
- horatio +1
- jonny
- Virgil +3 Great price and well packaged - cheers!
- Andypancake +2 Absolute gent... and some nice goodies. Ta fella.
- Tito Jackson +1
- Steelarts +1 This guy sure knows how to pack a bike.
- Dirty Harry +2 (and his brother)
- Janet Jackson
- TheBrick(Tommy)
- Michael Jackson
- dr fast
- RIH (bought bike very well packed from Holland) +11. provenrad-agreed-(bought campy bits)
- Prince
- Germaneddie - bought lots of stuff from him at jumbles and other places. very helpful and good prices +2
- Fixado
- Harry Major
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- Dalester
- Tilover +1
- Faso
- Tee Tee
- Buddha Fingaz
- Reginald (bought bars months ago - v helpful)
- andyfallsoff +1
- maxcrowe (traded seatpost + bought some sweet S75's)
- Fruit (Just one of the most helpful people) +1
- darstachy (spent £300+ in one go, did exactly as he said he would)+1
- SoperRiva - Cannot BELIEVE he's not on this list yet! Some of the bargains I've had over the years..... sheds tear +1 fo' sho'
- Aroogah +1
- The Bonk +4
- Crows
- knowthejo +1
- Erikfox, bike came very well packaged from Holland and was very helpful +2
- IDOnothing
- Downlo - Quicker than Wiggle.
- Bikejunk
- KLM - genuinely nice guy, I rate him
- Jessberry, nextday delivery
- XMAN
- Flowmont
- Berniebike, great communication, frame packed brilliantly, next day delivery ace
- Danb - kept me up to date, well packaged and pretty speedy all things considered.
- Yap
- Robertoegg
- WjPrince
- Benjybars
- Gregorio - Nice wheels as promised, friendly Pm's, and delivery was swift. Cheers ears. +1
- B'jammin - super helpful, thanks for the rims!
- 36x18 - brilliant service, really quick wheel build turn around :) +2
- gregorio - excellent service!
- Sirf - couple of things weren't originally perfect and he fixed it up! great guy.
- Björn - They say good service only shows when something goes wrong; in this case inept couriers ;)
- Yorkiefix: great deal, came real quick
- harv4130 - not only did he post me a cog for free/gratis/nada, he then sorted me a nice stem out for super cheap.
- Rodolfo
- catfood - bargain wheels and even brought them to Souths for me
- Maelstrom
- Pifko
99 Lew_redd - fast delivery, well packaged and even got insurance on the posting of the frame - MrLemon - really helpful and well priced, worked around my schedule to meet
- Bespokebicycle - exactly as the label on the tin. Many thanks.
- Solarider
- Re-cycled
- mdcc_tester
- babydinotrackboy
- yogicabbage
- igloo69
- wblenkin - +1 2 deals, one sale, one buy, both good
- number6 - quickest postage in the land! and good guy to boot.
- adman--did more web research on current price of bits between dibbing and picking them up and dropped price completely unprompted
- Weslito - stand up guy, really nice & easy to deal with
- Chegas - Worked out a good deal, answered all my questions, stayed in touch etc etc.
- Colm +3 Shiny Dura Ace by post at good prices, prompt delivery
- 606 - Bought a Langster off him, rides sweetly, he even threw in a 3rd tyre, mtb grips and straight handlebars and some road bike shifters. thanks again : )
- ChrisMGS +1
- Tenderloin - thanks!
- rbh0riz0n - Quick communication, posted asap, & pedals smoother than expected. Bam.
- sash — bike excellently packaged and recieved 2 working days after payment, from Germany!
- The_BMX-KId
- samdaniel - winner of best packaged frame award
- Jammy - Top guy, was willing to hold seatpost while funds arrived! And it's the busniz!
- Sumo - Bought forks and headset, lovely job, simple as.
- Dootroy - Bought some forks- great wrapping with kodak film paper! nice
- Upstart - top bloke, I know I'm not the only one.
- Jimalex - +2 Honest and trustworthy fella, posted before i paid!
126 jambon - +1 - cipolinni Well packaged, missing bit followed shortly afterwards
- Kingcutter +28 (great service on every transaction) - super professional + fast delivery + great packaging + just what it says on the tin.. [jeez agrees]
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Thanks, but my rse is Flite shaped...Good luck
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Any more info on the Selle Italia Saddle?
Condition/scuffs? and is it the Flite Gel flow ?
Cheers
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Hi Bill, Thanks for taking the time to reply, I didn't mean to sound ignorant (or arrogant for that matter), and I certainly don't believe that all the incidents could have been avoided by the cyclists involved. I apologise if what I wrote was taken to mean that. Not what I intended at all. Sorry.
My post was meant to highlight that there are an awful lot of cyclists out there who would benefit from education - whether it's a case of shouting "Mate don't go up there, he's turning left", leaflets or stickers whatever. Just to point out, I'm not implying that those have died were lacking education, this is just an observation I've made. I'm sure everyone on here sees other cyclists putting themselves in vulnerable positions, up the inside of HGVs or vehicles turning left etc. like the vids I posted. It's these people that it would be easy to target and get a message across.
This by no means relinquishes the HGV diver of a duty of care of other road users around them. Although I can see how the stickers on the back of trucks would been seem to pass the onus of responsility from the HGV to the cyclist, this is not what I had in mind.
Sadly there will always be incidents when through no fault of the party involved they will end up injured, fatally or otherwise, and that's not saying that no one is to blame either.
Unfortunately as you pointed out when there is blame, they get naff all punishment, a case in point: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=451662
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Fuckers... they don't use the bloody mirrors they have. You could wear all day-glo stuff and still be flattened by them.
Grrr.
Like it or not, they do have a point tho.
It is up to us to look after ourselves. If we as cyclists don't put ourselves in vulnerable positions (up the inside or in front of a hgv/bus/whatever indicating or not) they can't get us. It's that simple
Yes they have mirrors, but they don't want to squash us and they don't try either. They just have to be looking in the wrong direction for a second when a cyclist goes up their inside into their blind spot and through no fault of their own a cyclist has put themselves in a dangerous position, and the driver is non the wiser.
It's people like this: we all need to help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03GGcZ8dA8c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-lZPeAWye4
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Sorry I can't make it tonight, However I started a facebook group some time ago to try to raise awareness, but ran out of time to run it properly
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28903548493
Feel free to use it to promote the cause/spread the word etc
Has anyone contacted any other cycling forums?
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Great work :D
I posted it up on Bike Radar Commuting to spread the word a bit further
But have you seen the price of watermelons recently??? joke
A photographer here if I can help and I'm not working
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I was thinking a two sided flyer....the THINK! on one side, right side/suicide on the other with a plug for cyclesafe London thrown in for good measure
5,000 printed double sided would be £115 delivered...And thats without doing shopping around too much
And while 5,000 might not sound a lot, but it's a start
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A group of us a meeting up tonight about this. We will come back online tomorrow with actions that people can take etc. Full details tomorrow.
Dunno whether it would help but I have these, I've got a mate to design a electronic flyer/poster that looks like this:
Download the jpg, and Email it around
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/29/2121388/CyclistsTHINK.jpg
A4 Poster in pdf print it off, stick it up in your windows, office, bike parks, I'm sure you get the idea
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/29/2121388/CyclistsTHINKA4.pdf
Or the smaller A5 version (for those with less ink and less room :D )
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/9/29/2121388/CyclistsTHINKA5.pdf
It's all copyright free and free to distribute and share
Oh and like every idea nowadays I've started a facebook group
LFGSS
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I'm after the wedge bolt for tightening the clamp to the bars.
This fella
Does anyone have a spare one kicking around?
Seems the stem I bought off fleabay has already had this bolt replaced, and in the quest to tighten up the bars after a people carrier left hooked me, I've knackered it.
If I can't find one I'm going to get a replacement metric one machined.....from somewhere