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A little more polo practice and you could've checked him over instead.

I checked him over, but he wasn't very cute so I didn't try and kiss him.

I'll admit that was a bit of a judgmental call on my part, especially as I was off to my sad little income making post. That said I feel somewhat entitled to make judgement on the sad git.

It was more that there was nothing distinctive about it in the slightest. One of those people who just did not stand out in any way. I guess that's as much of a style as a hoodie, football top or head to toe rapha.

Hub brakes and gears FTW!

(currently riding a Dr Good)

Just a warning to other folks that use the loop in that area. Thursday morning about 8:30am a guy tried to shove me off my bike whilst riding in the cycle lane as he thought I'd shouted at some student girls to get out of the cycle lane.

The guy in front of me (brown langster with flat bars with bar ends) had said something but it was hardly like he shouted - more asked them to stay on their side - but this nutter thought it was me and decided trying to shove me off my bike with both hands against my shoulder and yelling 'Fucking cunt!' as I rode through the bollards a suitable punishment. I managed to keep it rubber side up and the following altercation to a fairly unpleasant verbal exchange rather than kicking the crap out of him - he didn't know what to say when I told him it was the guy in front of me who'd opened his mouth not me.

He clearly has issues with bikes and feels the need to defend the honour of student girls. Nut job: About 5'8'', black or mixed race with greying curly hair. Not sure of age but certainly over 30. Dressed like he was off to some sad menial job somewhere.

You mean you actually drink things other than booze?? [/learn something new every day]

Thanks folks. I managed to blag an old and very very buggered wheel for a week from a housemate to keep him going so anything would be an upgrade. Rob - Don't suppose you fancy a double beer win by combining this with a quick true of my rear wheel some time in the next week or so?

WANTED: Budget front wheel. 700c and width that will work ok with 23mm tyres. My mate managed to take out 4 spokes on Friday when he hit a pothole and needs something to keep him rolling. Not worth fixing the existing wheel as the hub is fubar and he's saving for a decent bike later this year. Failing that has anybody tried the £25 budget wheel from Decathlon?

yep, they've been doing this all up curry mile. wish they'd start ticketing the idiotic drivers along there as well!

They were pulling private hire vehicles on Chorlton St last night, clearly doing full vehicle inspections including checking spare tyres and the like. You might see a few less taxis as there were some worried looking drivers and some hefty U turns on Portland St as they realised what was going on.

I might have to take a detour on the way to work for that one. It's times like this that owning a £5 phone gets to be an issue. :-(

I've just ordered various component to build my own 1W rear LED light with programmable modes from dx.com for only around $30

Are you using a P60 or are you really rolling your own? If so I'd be interested in knowing what you've gone with. A lot of the drivers seem to be great for a a single emitter but to lack decent flash modes or support for multiple emitters or flash patterns.

corima friend!

Full carbon wheels like that cannot be trued or repaired in any way. 4 spoke corimas are supposed to be hard as nails, used that shit on tandem n stuff.

My bad reading fail. The Corima in my basement is 12 spoke and very much of the can be trued school. As for use on Tandem.... Tandem crash.avi - YouTube

as it is so brittle and doesn't give.

 This would be why fishing rods and tent poles get made of it. I used to use Carbon paddles canoeing back in the 90's and used to bend them something stupid, same with my kevlar carbon boat.  Carbon does bend, carbon rims can be trued.

http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/LIPHBHLL/phaart_bone_head_led_light

I got two of the plain looking two LED ones from ebay. Posted from China, with me in under two weeks and £1.75 for two!

Spot on behalf of my Brother: Monday on the FF Loop, guy on a Pug conversion who played game when my brother yelled 'DAS - It's the law!' - Perhaps a bit more slippery than expected? My Bro says he was impressed he stayed upright. My spot: Seen a few times now on the loop between Chorlton and FField. Lovely looking Big Dummy.

Oh and if you really do want an 880 you can get them for £98 here:

http://www.bikelightsuk.com/front_bike_lights/magicshine_mj880_light_unit_only_2000_lumens_P583.html

EDIT - Fockers are ex-VAT :-(

I picked up one of the Cree XM-L T6 clones of ebay and a wide angle lens kit for it. All up I'm in it for £35 for ~1100lm for over 2.5hrs.

For loop blasting it's ample, that said I'll probably be adding a second one in spot mode next month with a Y splitter which will half the runtime. As I will only really be using full output with both for short periods it's not going to impact me, I just want a bit of the throw I lost going wide back for bits of trails. I can then also leave a charger at work and have a spare battery for extended runs. I'm looking at the similarly priced SSC P7 clones as they colour balance is a little warmer for the second light.

For the money I don't think you can beat it. It simply destroys the IQ, Phillips, Fenix and B&M lights I've been able to A-B it against. I'm away this weekend but I'll try and call by polo this week and you can have a play if you want.

Already posted in the spotted thread above complete with Pic.

Not sure what it's called but there was a lot of noise coming from a mill on the banks of the Ashton Canal just outisde the city centre yesterday afternoon. Seems to be a practice room for a rock band but more than that I don't know.

I know where you live, thieving bastard.

As I wasn't in A&E last night you can be assured I didn't so much as touch a polo bike yesterday. Did another search of the likely disposal routes this morning but nothing listed as of yet.

Bloody hell.. I rode past his van with said bike in this lunchtime :-(

A metric feck load of lycra warriors all over Bollington / Mac / Wilmslow. Double bonus marks to the bloke who got half way up the hill near Pot Shrigly and then did a wonderfully over the top 'I'm stopping just to check my bottom bracket hasn't snapped or something, honest it's not because my lungs are trying to escape through my mouth' move. I'm glad to see it's not just me that plays that one! Fair few fixie hipsters spinning out towards Pars Wood down Kingsway this afternoon.

what's the maximum tyre clearance on charge plug?

I've got 32mm on mine at the minute. The limiting factor seems to be the brake as I don't think I could get anything much bigger in. The frame would probably take 35mm without brakes.

I've recently started playing with http://www.openstreetmap.org/ as the cycle routes seem better, all the sustrans routes round here are certainly on it. For longer distance routes the CTC site has some good suggestions and routes you can stitch together.

Rather gorgeous Jeff Jones with the Ti Truss Fork (fat front) going down Albert Road in Lvenshulme about 7:15 this morning. Anybody know who's it is? I'd love a proper look at it, such a different take on design.

Thai snack roulette is looking to challenge this. [/I still have the bag of Tum's fishy bits]