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OK scott, I've been ignoring this thread for a month or so, knowing that it would lead to some credit card damage.... Now I've jumped back in and caught up - the ninja's are amazing, exactly what I want.

What's the lead time on one of those bad boys right now?

@flickwg I am an Enterprise Architect (geek)for EMI Music.

@slack- yup, that s a genuine 5.25" disk - Disk 1 of Windows Nt Advanced Server 3.51, circa 1995. I use it as a coffee coaster :-)

dogsballs mashton is that a docking station under the laptop or another laptop!?

it's a docking station. Massive thing, I hate it.

There's also another monitor pointing away from me on that post on the left. It looks into the atrium - I like to stream porn to it when important people are in the building. (or would if I had the balls)

I did 115km an hour behind a van once on my cycling speedo. Catching the draft (van was being driven by my trainer though not some random driver)

Woah there Lesly, I'd love to hear more about this.

Where were you? Did you shit yourself. Why?

Respect to you, RPM

That's a full size snooker table on the laptop screen. My monitor is 50 foot across...

nimhbus i do feel strangely better when pretty girls admire my bike, even if they are just being polite.

Mashton, on the other hand, rarely makes me feel better.

Shouldn't have let me get off the first hand then, should you :-)

This thread rocks.

It's won, hasn't it?

I do echo some of the reservations stated above, about Sustrans but I am stll chuffed it won. Any new cycling initiatives have to be a good thing.

(unless they blow the whole lot on deathtrap cycle paths under buses - which seems unlikely)

Well feel better then you grumpy sod !

;-)

Usual advice involves pedalling very hard up some big hills and not doing any back pedalling whilst you are about it.

But, I am not sure whether that isn't some ruse to get people to throw up with exhaustion at the top of Swain's Lane...

Was reading this thread on an iPod last night and couldn't watch tynan's video until this morning.

Worth the wait - you're a legend.

d0cA [quote]mashton Spotted d0ca turning off Gower st toward Mallet St. Said hello but couldn't talk too much: it was my work Christmas party last night and my brain is not working again yet

Hello mate :-)

hey mashton :-) you beat me to the spotted thread! i've been really busy recently, what with work and other things... had just dropped friend off at a lecture up on gower street and was heading down to the campus area to hang out. but nice to see you and hope to get the chance to catch up again on thursday.[/quote]

Not doing beers on Thursday, but will see you at the Roller race, I hope?

Object17 I have a love hate relationship with Cressida.

A "love it on the way down and hate it on the way up" kind of relationship, is that?

I don't think Great Percy Street is as steep as Swain's Lane top section. It's a nice work out though.

What is this about Caledonian road in the OP? Is there a hill there?

fc9k I've only listened to it once or twice. It was OK, nothing that really made me want to keep listening, but it might be a grower.

+1 to 36c being ace though. Just like Cypress Hill's first and Dr. octagon's dr octagonecologist, all top debut albums.

"Holy shit, there's a horse in the hospital."

Brilliant album

That reminds me of Mouse's 'Tory Candidate' pic on the Names and Faces thread.

Bit better looking than Mouse though.

Ahhh, fuck it, let's stick to the Rugby Tavern. I'm lazy and can't be bothered to change / phone / breath too strenuously.

But don't say I didn't warn youse.

Hippy, it's not named after the game, it is named after the Earl of Rugby who owned most of the land around there. hence it is on Rugby Street.

The school where the game was invented is in Rugby, Derbyshire.

Tommy, you're a genius. But don't they have a 'sports jacket and cravates' dress code?

Possibly I've only been there once, on a Sunday evening and it was really quiet. But a Thursday evening near Christmas is a different matter. Given that, it may not even be possible to make a reservation.

Who wants to give them a bell and see if they would reserve a room for 30 odd (?) respectable cyclist chappies and ladies?

I know that I am inviting a chorus of "You fucking do it, you cunt" responses but I feel so hungover today that I don't think I could lift a phone receiver.

any time, dear.

do you want a nice cup of teas and your slippers now?

Well, here's two gmap links to satellite pics of the two court yards.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=wc1n+3pj&ie=UTF8&ll=51.521885,-0.117175&spn=0.000572,0.000996&t=h&z=20&om=1
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=wc1n+3pj&ie=UTF8&ll=51.504272,-0.090091&spn=0.000572,0.000996&t=h&z=20&om=1

The first one is the Rugby Tavern, the open space is undee those two trees. The second is the courtyard oputside the Kings Head. Much bigger and safer for bikes, imo.

Inside the Rugby is pretty pokey and doesn't have much character and has a few grumpy locals who might not relish us taking it over. Put it this way, it's the only pub within a 5 minute walk of my house that I never go to. How it managed to get itself into Timeout t'other week, I have no idea.

But, I really am not precious about this. It's going to be a great night, wherever we do it :-)

Don't want to throw a spanner in the works, but I'm really not sure about the Rugby Tavern as a venue. It's not very big inside (and not very nice either, really.) It does have big square out side it where we could do some tricks or something but it will be freezing cold.

I was thinking about the Kings Head, off Borough High St - really nice old pub, with a proper courtyard for bike locking. It has loads of rooms, one iwth an open fire which we could totally colonize.

What do you lot reckon?

Spotted d0ca turning off Gower st toward Mallet St. Said hello but couldn't talk too much: it was my work Christmas party last night and my brain is not working again yet

Hello mate :-)

Wow, 46x19 - that is mad spinny. I ride 48x19 and thought that that was a 'wussy, spinny' gear.

Gotta love 19 patches though - it's basically the whole tyre...