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I'm with yer too.
Dalston to Greenwich, 2am, maybe a Thursday. You buzz off the hood vibe and the jaywalkers as you head down Kingsland; keep sharp through the fucked club kids and the queues for Herbal and you make a break for Shoreditch at the Old Street lights. Once you've made it to Spitalfields the crowds dissipate after the Golden Heart; you shoot up Commercial Road and it's busy and fast. The traffic subsides as you turn into the back streets of Limehouse. You swing through a walkway and come out suddenly on the Thames, wide and grand and bearing right as it runs down to Greenwich. It's quite a vista - Canary Wharf towers above you just to your left; the river stretches east towards Woolwich and west to a central London you now feel so far from. It's quiet. The sound of the water stills the air. You run up some steep steps - hoisting your bike - and once you're down on Westferry road past the traffic light roundabout you can turn off for the Thames path. Now, with the river calm and ink blue, with the lights of a thousand riverside apartments flickering on the lapping waters: you, alone, pedalling across the night, living a London so few ever manage to feel.
What he said!
5am, Kings X to East India Dock (Prior to riding the Thames Path to Gravesend.
No traffic, no lights, just go.
Chris
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I've been looking for a frame and forks for commuting on, got the bit's to put on it but no frame. Ebay is failing me and testing my patience so if anyone has a 56c-c road, audax or touring frame, please let me know.
If work sort out the cycle scheme thing i'll try to get a cross check (as that's what i'm after really) but i can't see that happening soon.Must have mudguard eyes and be in a rideable condition. Semi horizontal dropouts are a bonus but not essential.
Cheers!
chris
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Honestly,
i was picking something up at lunch and was out on the bike. Stopped at red lights a lady asked if she could go straight across the junction and who should give way. Both lanes opposite were one way, facing us. I'm not sure anyone really knows what they are doing. I have a good few stupid moments every now and again, but i understand that going into a one way street full of traffic is not perhaps the best idea.
My regards to the family, i'm not in any way saying this particular woman didn't know what she was doing.
chris
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^ on this topic...
One stays inside/outside, 2 x with the front wheel off in a cupboard where my clothes should live.
My building has semi secure bike parking so it's not so bad, you're only allowed one bike in the rack though. Frames and bits are on the floor or in the small cupboards above the bigger cupboards.:)
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Hi,
have the following for sale. No money for bike bit's so would swap for Nitto items or cash is also good.
**Have: **
3rd Generation Apple 20gb ipod. Has been in it's sock for ages so still in pretty good condition. Some scratching to back and front but not much. Charger, cable and earphones included. £30
New 1gb ipod shuffle in purple, used once and then i was given a new nano from work. Original packaging, earphones unused and includes the charging dock. £25
Ipod USB charger (bought 2 of these somehow.) opened but unused. £10
7 speed Shimano 105 groupset, inc braze and band on front mechs, rear mech, DT levers, brake levers, long drop SLR calipers and Shimano 600/ultegra hubs laced to mavic rims with 7 speed cassette. Been hanging on to this for ages, would suit a re-build or commuter. Somehow, going through bit's tonight i've got a good few 9 speed bit's so i'll probably use these in the future. looking for £80 the lot
Looking for:
Nitto 26.0mm Moustache bars in good condition.
Nitto 90mm or 100mm Nitto UI-5gx a-head stem in a 26.0mm flavour.
Cold hard cash.
pics available, Cheers, chris :)
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^ Just post it in names and faces and let someone else decide if it's porn. Eventually it'll turn up here.
Those may well be agonising weeks/months though.
Chris