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kilgore_trout i too have wonder who this 'pista' is...

Dunno. He must be a wealthy man, what with all those bikes named after him.

hippy I'm a Commonwealth citizen. We can all vote. Registration is compulsory, voting is not.

Yeah I heard about Aussie elections. Didn't the Queen win one a few years back?

Find yourself a bike-friendly employer. Where I am there are 5 car parking spaces (MD + 2 deputies + 2 disabled spaces) and a secure storage room with racks for 50 bikes. We got lockers, showers + clothes driers. Funny what happens when you get a couple of cyclists on the board of directors...

Pista - yes
Car - yes (Toyota)
Posh - nah
Rich - not really
Bast*rd - yes

The Specialized Allez is the BMW owner's bike. Think about it, well designed, well engineered, own by over-weight men that think they own the road....

Sorry about all of this. It was never my intention. That's why I put the "just so you know" bit in the title. Ah well.

Not as bad as I do for starting a you-know-what "debate"

hippy Has anyone seen mounted police 'pursue' someone? That'd be fkn funny! :)

Nope. They don't need to. I don't know what breed of horses they use, but they're f****** big. There is something way more intimidating about them than an armoured van.

(Big intimidating horses - now you don't get that on C+)

Mr Bungle I'm really looking forward to the week when they crack down on RLJ cars and careless driving (not giving cyclists at least as much
room as a car as per the highway code for example)

When is that again?

And one of the "key residential complaints" is RLJ cyclists?? Can this actually be true?? Or do they mean
"one of the key residential complaints (there was that old lady who called up last year wasn't there frank?)
that we can police with near zero effort and still make it look like we're doing something useful?

The police force are a joke in my eyes. They choose what to police based on effort and what ever
is currently a hot potato politically - itself generated by column inches rather than evidence. Nothing
more than jumped up statistics collectors.

I get mugged and nose broken- Police response: ZERO
My friend gets burgled - Police response: ZERO
One of our bikes gets stolen - Police response: ZERO

RLJ - Police response: Instant

Grrr etc

Yeah but that's the Met. The City of London has its own police force, who probably don't have anything better to do than nicking RLJs, since there is close to no street crime in the square mile. The other thing they do is ride around on horses on warm evenings, telling people to go back inside the pub because the license doesn't allow drinking on the (empty) pavement.

mr_tom [quote]runcible rakan Do people really live in the city?!

Only in the Barbican, really.

[/quote]

BMMF lives somewhere near the Barbican. Perhaps it was him they asked?

The 96 quid RLJ thread reminded me to post this;

Message forwarded on behalf of the City of London Police

Dear City community,

The City of London Police Cycle Squad and Wards officers based at Snow Hill Police Station are working together to target cyclists committing road traffic offences, which we know is one of the key residential complaints in the City. During a week of action they will target the four 'hotspot' junctions in the City with the aim of the initiative is to highlight the ongoing cycle related offences e.g. Contravening Red Traffic Signals, Careless Cycling and Lighting offences especially relevant during the run up to winter with visibility of cyclists being a key issue. The officers will also engage with the cycling community and offer crime reduction advice on cycle security and promote 'Immobilise' the free to register national property index recording system.

The operation will be run w/c Monday 8 th October 2007 for 1 week.
All enquires directed to CycleProblemsSnowHill@city-of-london.pnn.police.uk

There's more about what a good idea it is to buy a good quality lock etc. but I'm guessing you guys know that...

No brakes, No Fear, No Teeth

Cajeta [quote]willski I saw Gordon Brown on a Mongoose riding through Peckham, and Clint Eastwood riding a Pashley through Muswell Hill

clint eastwood on a pashley?! please tell me it had a gun rack.[/quote]

It did. He was taking pot shots at Chris Moyles' Cerevelo.

I saw Gordon Brown on a Mongoose riding through Peckham, and Clint Eastwood riding a Pashley through Muswell Hill

31trum thought this was a thread about heavy breathers

Neau, it is a thread feur people who want to pant their frams in the style of Clouseau. The cheapest wey is with a can of 'ammerite non?

hippy Looks like whenever asked I'm now a courier. They might catch me out though when I start asking for directions out of the shop.. and whether or not my tie looks okay to them..

I think they'll spot your pink shirt first.....

wayne_f14 normski - 3 words 'JANET STREET PORTER'

I'm sure that Normski was attracted to her charm, stunning looks and outstanding dentistry. To suggest that his relationship with JSP had anything to do with the fact that she was producer of the BBC2 Yoof strand and that he was a struggling DJ and wannabe presenter would be outrageous.

I for one was gutted when I found that he had taken Janet off the market.

wayne_f14 they do mention Normski as "one of Hip Hop's Grand Masters" though WTF

Norman "Normski" Anderson is a giant of the music industry, and my forum name is a tribute to him.

..to love, but my baby just wants to dance.

photoben Central London ain't that big.

Indeed not. Unfortunately many people are unable to navigate at street level, and think that the tube map somehow represents the actual distance between the different places.

hippy Maybe we could have sew-on patches for stuff..
1st skid
1st No-Hand Skid
Trackstand
No-hand Trackstand
Backward Circle
Multiple Backwards Circles

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You been hanging around cub scouts again?

dogsballs legally in the uk your not supposed to have flashing lights??

IIRC the law says you must have filament bulb lights front and rear. This dates from the 1920s and specified filament bulbs to clarify that you could not use oil lamps. The filament bulb part means that LEDs were technically illegal. An amendment was made last year which meant that flashing LEDs are now legal, but they added this to the existing rules, rather than scrapping and starting from scratch. So, legally you can only run flashing LEDs, but only in addition to other lighting.

Given that you're extremely unlikely to be nicked for riding with no lights, the chances of bing nicked for no filament bulbs (or finding a copper who knows or cares about the rules) I wouldn't worry about running a flashing light.

mr_tom A mate of mine once hit a nun. An elderly epileptic nun with a leg brace.

Was he participating in a joke? If I hit an epileptic nun with a leg brace, I'd be looking out for an Englishman, Irishman & Scotsman walking into a pub.

Not that you are likely to get nicked, but to be street legal in the UK you must have breaking devices on both wheels (a fixed hub counts as 1, a freewheel don't)

Earlier this year I saw a messenger pulled over at Bank junction. He'd literaly rolled 6 inches over the white line and a CSO told him to come to the roadside while he wrote the ticket.

The messenger just said "thats B.S., I'm not taking a ticket for that - and you're just a CSO, you're not a proper copper" the CSO just kept beckoning, so the messenger stopped and pointed at the bus which was occupying 3/4 of the ASL and said "I'll take a ticket as soon as you've written a ticket for that bus" in the end the CSO just let him go!

Graham Obree rode 114 inch gear at 110rpm for his world hour record. Anything less is just not trying.