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Still trying to sell this. Let's say £15...

Thanks yes postage probably best then

Can you bring the brakes into town?

Can I have a number 5 please?

£20? I live and work in London, can't be bothered to post.

and, finally, another.

here is another picture

An 'F59 Vipor', apparently, featuring 'Sharkfin' LED lights. Brand new (a gift). I definitely don't want it.

Hey could I have a look at it tomorrow?

Also: is there room for mudguards, and lugs (?) for a rack?

any excuse to say 'kerb nerds' like a developmentally challenged teenager, though, eh?

hey dancing james I don't think your reply was funny or relevant!

beautiful chainring

Some sociopath moron in a BMW 7 series got real close and honked as I waited for 2 vans travelling at speed in the opposite direction to pass before turning right and crossing the carriageway (Russell Square into Senate House Carpark). This is common; it often feels like drivers expect you to get hit rather than delay them by waiting to make a turn. I gave him some bile (this is also not unheard of) and was advised by two separate film crew guys to 'have a cup of tea & chill out'; 'start your day now you've got that out of your system' etc. They can get fucked too.

quite extreme helmet-cam footage from the long, fast winning ride in a downhill competition in Chile last year. apols if repeat. I found it both thrilling and a bit sickening, YMMV of course but I thought it worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hvfYvqS-bE&feature=youtu.be

Here is the cycling bit of LB Hackney's Draft Transport Strategy:

https://consultation.hackney.gov.uk/streetscene/draft-hackney-transport-strategy/supporting_documents/Cycling%20Plan.pdf

Consultation closes in October.

I always read the 'Is it time to start calling out.. ' thread half expecting to be in it.

I meant to ask this the other day - didn't want it to look like I was stalking Oliver by posting after him in different threads, so,

Is the club on some kind of hill or rise? I remember watching the tour on the champs elysees (i.e. on a gentle rise) a few years ago and it was just a blur.

I only asked about abandoned bikes so can't speak to house clearances etc, but yeah I agree that it is a shame to see them go to the smelter - I'll raise it with the cabinet member. Any suggestions as to how they could cheaply be assessed, or organizations who would be interested in picking them up (from Millfields, I guess?), if we can get them to put them aside? They are already held for 28 days so it might not be impossible to get them to let a bike fixing non-profit come in each month...

although actually maybe i'm wrong, anyway, there are the powers according to the .gov

Looks like that post was right:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/117572/pcso-powers.pdf

official response from Hackney head of waste stuff:

The process is that Environmental Enforcement Officers place a notice of removal on any bike (or what is left of it) that appears to have been abandoned, allowing seven days for its removal. When the allotted time is up, Waste Services is asked to remove the bike and they hold it for a further 28 days. Following this, the bikes go in with the general metal which is all recycled and the Council get the revenue from this.
None of the bikes or parts of them are of much reuse value which is probably why they have been abandoned. However, please rest assured that no bikes or bike parts (including tyres) go to landfill, all are recycled.

Thousands of bodies blocking traffic - and there were thousands of people at the first die-in in November - does constitute direct action, in my opinion.

I agree, of course, that things have improved, my point was that things in much of London haven't improved much.

You write:

*It's made a massive difference. Fifteen years ago, cycling wasn't even talked about much in public except in newspaper columns talking about 'lawless cyclists' or on footway cycling. *

But talking about cycling isn't evidence of improvement - though Boris Johnson thinks it is a good in itself, and sufficient.

The central issue here - people here fear fear begetting fear; suppressing increase in modal share - has been raised many times, and as I have said before I think it's unfortunate that the efforts of a grassroots campaign, notwithstanding the fact that some here think it unhelpful, are routinely denigrated.

A 'die-in' is effortlessly just about the most stupid thing you can do if you're claiming to campaign 'for' cycling. A lot of people rather overestimate the impact that protests make. At the end of the day, it's a lot of constructive and positive work, usually behind the scenes, that makes the difference. All you do by excessive messages of danger is put people off cycling. I also happen to think that it's completely tasteless to organise a 'die-in' at the scene of someone's death. It's such warped logic that words fail me when trying to unclutter it. I mean, what are you trying to do, pretending to 'die' in solidarity with the deceased? I've been on many very moving commemorative events for people who died in traffic. It can be done.

At the end of the day, it's a lot of constructive and positive work, usually behind the scenes that makes the difference

• slightly playing devil's advocate here, but I guess the direct-action guys would say that that work, if it has been happening, hasn't made any meaningful difference in most of London. And they are also engaging with TfL; TfL see them as a group who need to be engaged with, even if the aggregate LFGSS opinion is much harsher.
  

I'll check what happens here in Hackney.

Hi Oliver, with regard to Clissold walkabout previously discussed, I heard that there were problems in developing a road scheme for the area previously because of Police routes to and from SN police station which are protected somehow. I'm looking into it.