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Still after some trucks / other bits? I've got some narrow old destructos, and some slightly less narrow Indys (probably suit 7.75-8.52 board) which may have irremovable wheels. going very cheap.

The charming concreted section at the end of my garden has a few holes in it - sort of like shallow potholes with the pebbly, sandy core showing. I am wanting to cover the whole lot with some gravel or slate pieces or similar. Do I attempt to repair the holes? (fill with concrete) or simply lob the gravel over the top of the lot? It's going to need to last.

This morning, pedalling down Clarence Avenue in Clapham.The road is fairly wide, fairly green, fairly empty. There is a grass verge at the side.

On the verge was a man in his early thirties. He was wearing speedos, and a vest. There was either a towel or what may have been his trousers, about his ankles/on the floor. He was doing what was describable as something between a pretty unenthusiastic but very camp dance, a workout routine and a kind of ‘come on’ to the passing traffic (of which there was very little).

Yours for the taking (collection from Peckham Rye weekday evenings): Hewlett Packard C5200 Inkjet colour printer with scanner, CD label printing, etc. Very good condition, with instructions. Needs ink cartridges. Driver software downloadable.

Come and get it!

Wheel, shifters, crank puller, chainwhip all sold! 25% price drop on anything else you would like to take off my hands.

Felicitations

Some bits for sale:

Beater front wheel - Surly Hub laced to Alexrims 700c rim. Works, true, life left in rim brake surface, hub OK but not great. £10

Campagnolo Athena Hubs: used , but not bad: £10

Campagnolo down tube shifters set: all much like new and polished by me. I'd put these on my classic roadie if I owned one: £10

Dura-ace 14T cog: almost new, my knees couldn't handle it: £10

Bontrager saddle: I think this is a ladies mountain bike saddle, it's new: £5

Park tools crank puller: CCP22, used maybe 5 times, will last you forever: £8

Icetoolz chain whip: never used: £5

Collection only from Westminster, Peckham or Clapham.

Some photographic representations....

Thanks!

I was told that not only did Marx Jnr(ess) live there, she also killed herself there, in a house on Jews Walk.

Wellbeing has been there for ages and is a proper health food shop nothing trendy nor hollandnbarret about it. I also remember going into Fresh and Fruity a lot when I worked over there.

Did not like the hill. However like long rides on flattish roads so will find a long way round if I do end up down there.

many thanks for the thoughts and info! i am trying to sell to myself that i have to move from where i have called home for so long, balancing the positives with the negatives - and getting a more nuanced view than the 'standard' blogs/forums e.g. the East Dulwich Forum!!

Not looking forward to pedalling up and down that bastard hill all the time though...!

So, thinking about buying a place of my own and areas I've rented in for the last 15+ years (Peckham, Camberwell etc.) are out of my price range particularly with the recent influx of hipsters and young families in Peckham where I was hoping to stay having pushed up prices.

Sydenham seems like one of the few affordable(ish) places in a vaguely similar area. I know it quite well - used to work there years back, realise it is quite different to Peckham.

But what's it like to live there? Experiences please! Ta!

Yo, A&E visit averted. Sat around blinking and in pain for about 5 hours at work (better than the same time spent in A&E getting deprioritised) and it has miraculously stopped). Will keep an eye on it though, ka-boom-tish.

So I managed to get some kind of London road crap in my eye on the way to work this morning, I can't see it but it is causing me all manner of pain, and I have failed to wash it out.

Any advice? Surely others have had similar misfortune.

(I've had something visible stuck lodge into my eyeball before whilst cycling and ended up in A&E with a nurse picking it out with a needle - something I would rather avoid)

2nd dibs on the locks if it falls through! (Presume that's the standard shackle not short shackle?)

It's time to sell my beater - a big old beast but has seen me through a few years including doing the London to Brighton so it must be pretty solid.

Based around a Falcon Frame of no discernible vintage but plenty of chips to the paint! Suits someone over 6ft - I am 6'3" and can just stand over the top tube.
Top tube c-c: 58cm. Seat tube c-c: 62cm. Seat tube c-t: 63cm.

It needs a couple of things: Tyres are usable but only just. Break lever needs to be better fitted as it's a bit loose. Headset loosens quite easily. A new chain might be a good idea.

But the whole thing is yours for a measly £65! If I was keeping it I would swap the frame for a different one and have something pretty decent as a pub bike etc!

The components as listed below. Alternatively with enough offers I'll break it up and sell as parts - prices listed below.

• SR 110mm stem (good condition): £5
  
• Old school MX brake lever (bit battered but cool) and tektro side pull brake (good condition): £10
  
• 165mm silstar cranks (good condition with a few knocks/scratches): £5
  
• Sakae 42t chainring and spider (good condition, plenty of life left): £10
  
• Kyokoto pedals with Brooks toe cages and generic straps (good spinning condition, plenty of knocks and scrapes): £15
  
• Milreno saddle and seatpost (well used!): £5
  
• 26" wheels with Maillard hubs (good condition running true, with pretty knackered tyres and OK tubes): £25
  
  

But remember all this could be yours for only £65. Yes, £65!!

Collection from SE15 or you might tempt me to bring it into town to meet up...
:)

Campagnolo down tube shifters, for 10/12 speed I think, in very good used condition, will look like new on the bike - £20.

Campagnolo quick release skewers, measure approx 150mm and 180mm, in very good used condition, £20.

Campagnolo Athena Hubs, in good used condition with some wear (see pics - PM me for more pics), and probably need a good greasing/sort out. Measure approx 140mm and 110mm - £40.

Collect from Peckham or Westminster! Offers considered!

not sure which, one of the side roads on the west side of brixton road near the junction with camberwell new road....

About 7:15 this morning, northbound, looks like a car / van had turned across the two lanes and hit him. Ambulance on scene. Rider on the ground, not sure if conscious. No further news. Hope he's OK.

Right, clearing out some stuff, going cheap or free, here goes. You can collect from me in Peckham, or in Westminster near Lambeth Bridge...

SRAM 3/32" chain - NEW - £3

Plain black no name brake lever - NEW - £5

Plain black unbranded (Tektro) back brake - NEW (think it can be converted to a front brake with a different bolt) - £5

Stem off of a Surly Steamroller 1 1/8" steering tube diameter/ 26.4 clamp diameter - NEW - FREE

MTB saddle off a Surly Steamroller - NEW - £3 (not a bad saddle, logos slightly on the ugly side)

Shimano Front Derailleur - FREE (can't vouch for condition, probably work with a bit of TLC)

Mountain bike quick release skewers and seatpost clamp - FREE

Headset spacers - some about 5mm, some about 1cm - all black, all new - all FREE

1 set of handlebars off of a Surly Steamroller (not pictured) - NEW - FREE

1 set of mismatched cranks, with Wellgo pedals (coulnd't remove them) plus spider and 42t and 52t chainrings - chainrings might be of use to someone - FREE

COME AND GET IT YOU SLUURGS I MEAN SLAAAGS. :)

Looking for something to replace my beater frame which judging by weight seems to be made of tungsten or something, not a problem if battered, but gots to be cheap.

Needs to take big wheels - got some 27"s that I am using, and am too cheap to replace them.

cheers

Marc

...nice classy bar end stops/plugs to use with my bullhorns.

Looking for something that fits as flush as possible with the bar itself - being bullhorns obviously they'll be facing forward and don't want them to stick out too much.

Haven't seen much out there for sale, and I am fed up of the plastic ones I am using that look like they're off of a 1993 Nissan Micra.

I know someone who has a room in SE15 from about 19/2 to 19/3 - if you're interested, pm me.

Sold...

...does not include wheels, saddle, etc.! Frame, fork, headset, bb, brakes, seatpost included!

I prepped this frame for a fixed gear runaround with the 'rat look', but its too small for me.

John Ainley road frame, Reynolds 531 tubing
Seat tube c-t: 56cm Top tube c-c: 55.5cm Down tube: 59cm approx.

Braze-ons, gear bosses, derailleur hanger removed, baremetalled by hand, primered & rattle-canned matt black. Chips easily but a nice smooth finish; some stickers would suit. Tange headset and Shimano square taper bottom bracket in good condition. Small dent in down tube behind steering tube. Couple of tiny dents in frame elsewhere, dealt with before painting, with bodyfiller.

All in all it's a nice frame for a beater/runaround, or a first fixed gear. I'll throw in brakes, a seatpost, and the half-used rattle can for touch up purposes too!

£30 for quick sale, collection only from Peckham.

What size frame/how tall are you? I might have something.

My 10 rupees worth:

Ganapati in Peckham - fish the centre of much Kerala food and the fish I had when I was in there wasn't that fresh. The veg stuff like Rava Dosa is pretty good though. Rasa Samudra is better, but about twice the price.

Kastoori - the chaats (snacks/street food) are really good but the mains are so so and too salty.

Lahore off commercial St - thumbs up all round, not very veg friendly but Pak food generally isn't...

Tooting - Al-Mirage is good for Pakistani food (Similar to Lahore Kebab House), Saraswati Bhavan is a good veg place. Sree Krishna seems to have gone downhill a bit.

Diwana on Drummond Street - good, but can you now just buy chaat and not be forced to have dosa too?

Mirch Masala - also seems to have gone downhill a bit.

One of my local specials is Madras in Lewisham (just by the big railway bridge). Do really good paneer pakora, chilli idly fry, chicken 65, other south indian delights.

Dosa and idli is not Goan food, it is S Indian. There's a restaurant in Crystal Palace that does real Goan food but the portions are stingy in a 'haute cuisine splash of sauce and slice of carrot' kind of way.

I don't get up to West London much - who can recommend places in Southall, Hounslow, Wembley?