Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

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Quid each in Flying Tiger ;-)

Hope you left a sniffy note for them.

Assembled by Halfords.

I find the octopus brake levers strangely arousing

I don't like them. Maybe it was the 1990s Manga tentacle rape fad, but I feel uncomfortable looking at things like that.

1990s Manga tentacle rape fad

I seem to remember kids were either into that or pogs.

Pre -internet in the late 80's, teenage me obtained a mail order VHS copy of Akira and was well impressed. I remember excitedly ripping open the posties next Manga VHS delivery, and sitting down in the family living room with my Gran to watch it. She hadn't seen Akira and I thought she would be bored and just ignore it and continue knitting.

I don't ever recall having read any reviews, and think I just bought the next available Manga I could find via some magazine, and just thought it would be along the same lines. As it turns out, Legend of the Overfiend is not like Akira at all.
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Proper awks silence and some batshit fast knitting ensued. CSB/

Haaaa! Yeah, even having seen Akira and a few other Manga releases, I was proper weirded out by Urotsukidoji (sp?)

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Urotsukidōji

This reminds me of when I went to Picasso 1932 at Tate Modern last year. There was a room with contemporary artworks, including The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. The one with the octopi.

A woman was looking at it and excitedly dragged her distinctly pre-teen daughter over to peer at it closely - it's only about A4 size.

'Look at this - do you recognise it?'
'Yes Mum, it's Hokusai'

Although my parents gave me an Aubrey Beardsley anthology for my 13th or 14th birthday, so...

Not sure that's been assembled incorrectly - my guess is someone has just turned the bars holding the wheel. The front brake would hit the downtube and probably lock on judging by the length of the cable if it was used like that.

an unconventional combination of the money gun and the ugly stick

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Picked some up today.

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The coming of Cthulhu is less impressive than I'd hoped

Is that Cinelli bar tape?

Yeah the Caleido stuff.

Nice. Like the tentacles too

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Tentacular!

They actually sell them as brake lever grips? Or are they for something else?

I think they’re for kids to put on their fingers.