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i'd love nothing more than to stop tinkering tbqh, like a cycling based guy ritchie plot im embarking on "one last build to get me out the game for good (8 months or less)" to attempt this

hopefully i will get a trail finds viewing window on my bags one of these days.

sad news,

the bmx bars are going, i've managed to secure some magic components worm bars thanks to the endless generosity of sam over at freshtripe (the best bike parts shop on the interwebs (honestly unrivaled, it's just so good)). i just need to find a 25.4 clamp, 90-100mm +10 deg stem , maybe even a 0 deg. something a bit posh would be nice, have a thomson and a hope. might buy a nitto from sam but ideally would like something a bit more agricultural.

it might seem like i'm messing with things that are not broke, but it's important research for a undisclosed, much more exciting project that is slowly forming. more on that in the future

always is on this bike

Big bmx in its natural habitat,

I want to make it clear to the reader, I got absalutely 0 air. None. It wasn’t a case of photography, it wasn’t a case of careful editing, I just did not leave the ground. I was terrified, I even went so slow that my wheels slipped and I nearly feel over in front of the skateboarder and the 12 year old on a mountain bike, if I hadn’t saved it I would have never have shown my face there again.

I want the readers to know this so they can know, other people are awful at riding bikes too.

But she is still only three. When she sees a fancy pine cone she drops the bike like whatever and runs to pick up the cone.

i think we could all learn so much from her about riding philosphy

rigid is the way, lookin good

Heard the man found himself in another pro conversion therapy, evangelical Christian conservative backed church this Easter, ofc a mistake I’m sure,

https://twitter.com/bencsmoke/status/1645068910415208448?s=46&t=2q-8sYxbDCQmBKv0J01qCQ

Weird he keeps going to these over say, his local c of e place, coincidence I suppose!

suprising ad for someone who recently had this to say:

"But simply turning it into a toxic divide advances the cause of no one...it’s also a pattern of behaviour of the last 10 years which is turning everything into a toxic culture … which is the last resort of politicians who have nothing substantive to say on the issue."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/01/turning-trans-issues-into-a-toxic-divide-doesnt-help-says-keir-starmer

all part of the plan tho i'm sure, trust in the process 💎🙌 ... or errr... that weeks focus group

bossin

wooooaaaahahhh RIG

wear one usually for long day riding, find not overpacking it is essential, that and making sure the strap is a decent width in order not to pinch

it's no replacement for a bag to carry stuff but as a top tube bag / bar bagel you can stick snacks and a waterproof in i find it offers minimal irritation and is quite convinient

best part is when you go to lay on the ground exhausted or frustrated after a hill, you can lay on the floor straight away without having to either rumamagging around in a stem bag for your phone/ skittles before collapsing, or having to get back up after you've had your strop

this fucking SLAPS

sorry to hear about the phd, but excited to see you step into bike and parts making full time.

if you're creating work as fine as what's in this thread with the distractions of a full time job, i am highly anticipating what comes when you're free to dedicate more attention to it.

This is much cooler

Nice 1x1

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Love this

looks great, mud will eventually provide the contrast for people. really, job well done to you both

and it's always on my mind 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

perfect bike!

this sounds absurd but i'm on a bike slack with some crust adjascent people and it was earnestly a mistake between the protoype and the production, it comes up every week or two there

it's believed the difference is caused/ assumed to be, having mis match brakes with varying drops, so when they calculated the numbers on adjustment between the run and the prototype, how much space they added between the tyre and the caliper was different

or to that effect

it's a mistake, but they've never addressed it, some say because it doesn't matter, some say it's because they do not care

loving it

sorry ma'am, just to highlight

“Fly-tipping, off-road biking in rural communities, drugs… Some people call this low-level - I don’t want to hear those words.”

"i for one am less peturbed by the noisy moped, or the addict on my steps struggaling as a threat to me or my estate, than i am..."

these are specific dog whistles to upper middle class, subruban voters, starmer has outlined here the crime he wants to be tough on, and how he wants to be tough on it. the comment also follows a joke about how what we / he decides to police is socially decided along class lines and avoids speaking about a lot of the often, violent crime done by state and capital which affects me. such as my landlord not dealing with asbestos and trying to evict me, or the council selling public land and then private buyers hiring security to police residents.

these are not projections of peoples character, but a response to starmer.

i also have currently a group of addicts on my doorstep at all hours, shooting up and leaving paraphinalia, who lit a fire on another neighbours doorstep and have harrassed both, me my partner, and neighbours elderly and with kids, marginalised and otherwise ignored by the council building new flats over the road

we've gone to about 3 different charities for both adicts and homelessness, the council and community figures. no-one can help, no-one has budget to help. we're just referred to the police. when my neighbour caved and called the police they made a big song and dance turning up but what did they do? put the person in prison? clear them off? refer them to services which will not take them? the structural issue causing this still exists, policing it did nothing. fwiw they're back now, the issue isn't solved

when my house was bricked and my mum stalked when i was younger, she was quick to call the police, all they saw was a derranged old woman in poverty, i assume they only turned up in the first place because of the post code. they recieved funding increases every year since but the services which helped my mum have been nothing but cut year on year

i've been burgled while in birmingham, yet again police did nothing to assist, nor offer me or my housemates support in the aftermath (marginalised people stuck in a HMO leveraged for someones rent), just a crime number and a officer who informed me to "get an alarm" and was not going to pick up the phone any time soon nor called us ever again

i've had fights outside my appartment in worcester where someone called the cops, knock on my door and instead of taking my polite i didn't see anything insisted i must be on drugs because of my eyes and asked to come in, causing me to firmly decline and close the door, hoping they didn't come back

when my partner was robbed in uni the police came, locked up the "kown" guy and asked him to pay £200 to them, he didn't have this to his name, which is why he was stealing phones from women at the laundrette. when my partner reached out to them for victim support and follow up because she felt unsafe as a 19 year old in a strange city being robbed, nout nada, but did patronise her as a silly young girl who needs to be more careful and the big bad man has gone away now

let's not even get onto the compleat ignorance and participation the police enact when it comes to me being hate crimed as a faggot!

all these situations would have benefited from investing in non police based, community support agencies, to support victims and provide security, giving agency to people to be able to stand up to the person or the developer terrorising their community, even repair damage that had been done or pevent it from happening, none of them are addressed by "more police". policing with its current outcomes does not benefit the victim unless the victim is capital or needs to protect or replace their capital, so the exapansion of policing as reform, is useless to marginalised victims or those of violent crime.

i speak about this as this exact policy approach has been used against me and my wider community, and bought no end to the violence or discrimination, even when we were as scared as the neighbours you describe. all it bought was more policing of our bodies, actions and communities.

i'm not sure why i have to publically out myself like this to speak about non carceral police reform? i can only assume you believe me to be a Caricature of a person you've created in your head, there is a reason i described you as othering. there is a reason i phrased your critique without attacking your individual material factors, i don't know them, i don't know you, it's not important nor does it undermine the work numerous people have done before, and far better than i ever will, advocating for anti carceral reforms and police abolition.

seems like you have a chip on your shoulder

tell that to the people who were stuck in, and killed by rikers in the last 40 years

policing does little to address why crime manifests in poor neighbourhoods (at lower rates than richer communities, drug use, antisocial, labour and financial crimes are not policed in sw1!), but does lead to the harrassment of the population by police in poor and marginalised neighbourhoods.

i for one am less peturbed by the noisy moped, or the addict on my steps struggaling as a threat to me or my estate, than i am the privatisation of public space and my stagnating wages causing greater desperation in my community which might manifest or be construed as anti social behaviour or crime. the only people who benifit from this style of speech are white gentrifiers and landlords as they do not recieve the same overpolicing of their bodies in the community, or are not active in the communuty when reporting the crime of lowering property values.

if this speech was truly to address why these people recieve this asymetrical policing, it would speak and more to the point, make promises on how they're going to address the structural racism and discrimination within the police force; how power is applied asymetrically, how capital often escapes policing and drives those under it into criminalised activity, rather than simply expand the resources the police have to enact it. it does none of this, it ignores the voices of those most marginalised, pinned between the violence of state and capital

your comment is naieve and othering, an example of when we think of policing we think of the protection of capital depending on our proximity to it or asperations of it, than we do of its effect on people at the whims of it on either side of legality.

broken windows theory is just as useless today as it was in 1982