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only after its official public unleashing at the track day Murts!

You goin? Hope so...

it's frickin gorgeous Brian...

..hope things are going well in HK btw, not taking a break from the bike slavedom I see..;)

bling bling

bling bling

crackle

"Hello? Kwan Components....."

wow that's a large img : )

or maybe this is it

sorry EM, there's an anti-bike porn for images like this....

the interview clip - the guy eventually admits he doesn' ride a bike..he walks and has a car. "I don't ride a bike! ..er..at all! I walk.. I..have a car as well. So I'm quite aware of the different behaviours of pedestrians in those situations and cyclists in those situations..."

EPIC FAIL

ok you've fallen off your bike...theres no need to write a novel about it!

+1

;) up and running then.good work

yep! so excited. not tested yet...loooooong sleep first, it was quite a day....

48:17

700c 23

Brake

btw my ongoing project, my first - all in all from first ebay purchase to tonight about three months -has just been completed. Hillbilly and me have built a beauty, me supplying vision and aesthetics (ie the bike), HB the expertise in helping me put it together mechanically (I am really indebted to him).

And it is finished. I'm sitting next to it. It's beautiful. But it's a surprise.

You'll see it Sunday, Monday or Wednesday, or all three, and I hope it is all three cos that'll mean I'm without pain enough to ride it..

haven't felt this excited in a long, long time...:)

ruddy nora Paul....

Fiddy cent, we start callin' you mate. As in "who you think you are? Fiddy cent?"

or what about "P Fiddy"? ooh that's a good one....

wtp?

Glasses aint gonna fix that left eye. His optometrist should refer him to a doctor.

consulting my hipsterpedia, I surmise there are no lenses in those frames anyway.

btw - talk about consistency. In bike, a love for weird and trendy frames. In glasses..

yeah - first new twinges starting to come through wrist, neck and back.

Here we go......

you around for track day pj? Haven't seen you for ages..

I was just trying to help - one sister to another.. x

my next thread is about some vintage weinmann components I've been interested in. I'm going to call it "pert and in need of a smacked bottom".

bollocks, am I ever going to make this? ;)

well I don't know what's shaken me up more, wrapping it in camden or seeing a thread devoted to my wellbeing. Thanks guys, you really are very kind, I feel a little undeserving of it as I have manged to avoid breaking anything. In the end the verdict was basically "you'll live", which I'm very glad of, obviously.

I was indeed venturing North into Tynan territory (location undisclosed) when - cycling quite legally - a van seems to have seen a few cars stopping ahead, figured "I'll let this other guy in a van through" and waved him on - without checking his mirrors to see a rain-drenched figure hunched over the bizarre geometery of his Giant hybrid (a whopping 24 gears - count 'em) coming up on his left.

So when I passed the van stationery to my right I had another van kind of turn into my direct path - a quick rain-drenched skid and I hit the bonnet and sailed over.

The driver was quite decent about it, rather concerned ("Why aren't you wearing a helmet..?" "I want to be a hipster ...") and then I realised the two vans had stopped, drivers out, another woman driver was offering me water as I had gone pale and a guy was calling the ambulance - and I was being told to "stay down". It seems it looked pretty bad from the spectators' point of view. Poignant moment I remembered on the way back home: another cyclist rode past, making the sign of the cross. If you're on here dude, I'm okay. That gesture choked me on the way back home, sorry to have worried you.

So ambulance came, cops came, my knees, ankles were hurting (and still are), long story short I waited a while in a&E and got given the all clear, which I am massively relieved about - as asm pointed out, tonight is meant to be build night and a spanking new bike is hopefully going to be ridden very soon rather than in six weeks' time. I'm also aware that if this had happened on the new bike, it would have got bust up and I would probably have pinned some relevance on the fixed gear and might have been put off it.

I know there'll be more pain tomorrow but really hoping I can HTFU enough to ignore the doctor just a little bit and cycle down to Track Day Sunday. If I can't I'll still be there to join the other walking wounded...

Thanks for the concern guys, esp someone relatively fresh to the forum. Tynan, thanks for keeping track of things man. And thanks for the texts. It really is a community on here, I feel very good to have spent time with you.

Interesting thoughts on first-hand experience of police procedure but we'll leave that for conversations over drinks - but basically everything Roxy said is true, whether they are conscious of it or not. They would have driven off and "come to the hospital" if I hadn't asked the ambulance guys to get them to speak to me - and at that point I had no info on anything, and they had no info about me...so thanks Roxy...find that thread if you haven't read it dudes..

Okay, TTID!!!! Hooray!!! As you were!!!

it's on dude, long as it don't rain. Old thread somewhere with new posts...see you there

wtf? 1st post and it's asking how to break open a d-lock? Do you know this person pajamas? I hope so, otherwise some little fucker out there is pissing himself laughing whilst we all give him tips on how to steal our bikes.

Actually, that is quite funny.

no I don't know nobody named Ondine.

I wasn't anywhere with anything that would have helped the situation, I think I was drunk looking at the time I sent my reply, probably would have had a bit of a chat about it, bit of tea and sympathy and then it would have been "lotsa luck, you's on your own". I seem to remember I thought I had decided to scrap the reply but I must have pressed "submit".

Anyway I didn't hand out any advice. Plus Ondine is a girl's name, avatar is a girl's eye v. similar to 50/14's - it's either 50/14, or a girl. or someone pretending to be a girl to dupe someone. Note the lickle kiss at the end of the post.

Aaaah.

Any luck, Ondine? You still in trouble?

bump

I don't think the trainer could keep up with me, I go like a mad ferret down the Old Kent Road.

I'm joking...

like the way the tagged tricks have started to get more and more complicated...:)

bump...

poll for day to follow soon (won't be Tuesday as that's Trixie Chix's night)

I hope you're taking plenty of photos of the process peeps...

have a good time..

h to the hizzle

just joining in.

So Pete no one takes the piss out of the keiran fram'd boys and girls out there...?

ha!! cheers for the bar extension somebody - sorry me and asm were thoroughly engrossed in art..

now you know what we said last night...two weeks mate...!

if I don't I have a serious problem.. I have booked studio time tonight so will be drumming while you're all bumming.

what photos? sense of impending doom