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I used to live in Deptford. About 25 years ago or slightly more, the High Street was a somewhat dangerous area to wander into at night. Now, art galleries.

Sorry, Eltham = SE9

Yeah, I knew there were a couple of exceptions but I couldn't be bothered to google them. Wonder why that is. Was Battersea renamed or something? I guess Crystal Palace was not part of London when they formed them maybe?

Did you mean there were no SE's between SE1 & SE11? Sorry if I have misunderstood.
Blackheath = SE3
Eltham = SE8

and buying a frame from the forum and selling back to the forum for £100 more
http://www.lfgss.com/thread53186.html#post1714807

Agree.
Definitely a bad traders issue since, surely, less people will wish to sell nice stuff/cheap on here if they're gonna see it back on sale for a profit a few weeks later. Even if people don't care/agree about "not in the 'spirit' of the forum' " this sort of behaviour, if it became acceptable will make selling or buying on here nigh on impossible, no?

Holdsworth track/path frame. Bad photos but could be nice frame.

Constrictor airlite wooden track wheels.

Don't know anything about this Russ track frame but it looks gorgeous

£1 please

This thread surely makes this necessary.

... pooles to be precise.

Precisely what pootle, poodle or poole?
My money's on pootle. Obvious, surely, on a towpath you shouldn't really go faster than a poodle or you're likely to come a cropper, so, shouldn't really need to have a bell.

And check out this disrespectful mockery.

much better
As Keanu once said: 'This struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.'

Wondered if there was a list of 'about 550 businesses' which were 'represented' by 'inmidtown' and the 'midtown rangers'. I guess people could be encouraged to boycott inmidtown businesses...

http://www.londonmidtown.org/member_list.aspx

...blah blah hideous Baines

I understand that you young people think that the Roberts is a nice bicycle/classic. Please stop calling the Baines 'hideous'... it's perhaps an acquired taste. (Smiley face thing here)

Because it looks hideous? Just a thought.

Hideous you say? I'm surprised not everyone loves them. Fair enough though, mystery solved.

This old Hobbs is a rare beauty imo:

Baines flying gate - (it's a mystery to me why people who spend so many hundreds of pounds on new road bikes don't just buy something like this instead)

Yes I totally agree it is a horrible ad...I'm fairly sure that the frame number quoted is pre war and the headbadge is from N1(Islington) so pre-war move. It might actually be really good frame underneath it all.

It does say 'tack' but I thought Carpenter frames had some quality/history? I could well be wrong and I'm happy to be enlightened concerning their quality or lack of it.

^ Yeah, indeed the way it's listed is pretty vile but it might be worth rescuing (?)

early Carpenter from late 1938/9? is surely worth restoring...

If you really are as blasé as your pretending to be, why post anything?

Conversely, if one is really blasé, why not post?

Alan Bonds, Bob Searl, Gary Fisher, Charlie Cunningham, Steve Potts and Tom Ritchey disagree.

True, I really like the Elgin, just thought it might not appeal to many people's tastes especially if they wanted a bike to ride around London.

Vespasian, to whom 'pecunia non olet' is attributed, was said to be easily the most avaricious of ‘The Twelve Caesars’.

I might happily do so too, but this is an assumption. It isn't that trivial. That's all I'm gonna say.

+1
There are v.complex issues involved. The best choice isn't necessarily the cheapest. 'Better' can obviously mean different things to different people, non?
Or, maybe that's wrong and it's really very simple?

This Elgin is interesting, (perhaps not to many), though maybe it would be difficult not to look like a prat when riding it...

Sadly watch this major taylor stem go for over a hundred...

Yes there is a lot of truth, but it shouldn't effect your hiring as they are mearly advertisers, they don't make money from the scheme (do they?!).

Josh I am hardly I a bleeding heart liberal (currently work for a shady insurance company and previously in the oil and gas industry) but it's not hard to bank ethically, coop, britania building society... In fact any building society... No need to be a vegan and wear hemp.

It's just the cluster bomb financiers advertising on the bike? Better, but still not great. Interested in how it all works. I reckon it's a good thing to have hire bikes and wouldn't condemn anyone for hiring one but still think it's v.necessary and worthwhile to be critical of the advertising and way it's sponsored etc etc. (Not a vegan/hemp wearer either).