Search results for:

Bump... Price drop £440 also will also swap for complete 700c fgfs (bruiser etc) or posibbly other random shit...

Longshot..anyone know what rack Paul the courier has on the front of his Condor,...? not bumped into him recently to ask.... want one for my new porteur styled Dawes Galaxy...

How owls swivel their heads

It's the owl's greatest trick - turning its head almost a full circle.

     The puzzle has been how the bird doesn't throttle itself in  the process. If we did it, we'd cut the blood supply to our brains and  pass out.

"They haven't developed just one answer to the problem; they have several answers," said Dr Philippe Gailloud from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

     "And it's because of this set of solutions that we don't see  lots of owls lying on the forest floor having suffered strokes," the  interventional neuroradiologist told BBC News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21279609

my current functional whip....

/attachments/63234
/attachments/63235
/attachments/63236

that's 2 full supermarket shopping bags with room for plenty more...

Bump

£440... any interest..?

Jesus, you guys are hard work... See above...
Does Beatin' Rhythm still exist? Haven't been in MCR for years...

Yes

http://www.beatinrhythm.com/

In case there are any trick peeps in Manchester, got this for sale: http://www.lfgss.com/thread99516.html

big photo (sorry)

http://static.lfgss.com/attachments/62447d1357940184-img_3194.jpg

Apologies for dual posting but posted in tricks section first without thinking..

/attachments/62447

For sale because i've had it 8 months and ridden it literally 3 times. i'm much more at home on 700c's and a bit too old for hammering stairsets now....

Radio Bombtrack V1

Selling exactly as it was out of the box, only thing changed is i've sprayed the white rims black (looks 10x better), it has a couple of scratches to the fork, nothing at all but need mentioning....

(Attached photo has wrong seat & post) more photos here: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...Id_261353#tab2

Oh, don't think i still have the brakes, but i doubt anyone will want them

Spec (from Radio):

• Approximate Weight (KG): 12.1
  
• Brake Type: Caliper
  
• Forks: RADIO Bombtrack full 4130 cr-mo fork
  
• Frame Colour: Glossy Black
  
• Frame Material: Cr-Mo
  
• Frame-: RADIO Bombtrack full 4130 cr-mo frame
  
• Front Brake: Z-Star forged alloy caliper brake
  
• Handle Bars: RADIO Bombtrack full 4130 cr-mo bar
  
• Headset: FSA Int. headset, sealed bearing
  
• Hubs: RADIO Bombtrack hub, 3/8s axle, sb, 36h (front), RADIO Bombtrack fixed hub, sb,14mm axle, 36h / flip flop (rear)
  
• Pedals: SALT AM nylon/fibreglass pedals
  
• Quick Release Wheels: No
  
• Rear Brake: Z-Star forged alloy caliper brake
  
• Rims: SALTPLUS Dune straight double wall rim, 36h
  
• Saddle: RADIO Century fat padded pivotal seat
  
• Seatpost: RADIO pivotal seat post, hi-ten, 155mm
  
• Stem: SALT AM top loading stem, 50mm reach
  
• Suspension: Rigid
  
• Tyre size: 2.00"
  
• Tyres: WTB/FREEDOM Cruize Sport 2.0" front and rear
  
• Wheel Size: 26"
  
  
  
  

Priced to sell at £450ono

Located in Manchester, can send by courier or maybe deliver to London next week as i may be going to the London Cycle Show.....

/attachments/62445

For sale because i've had it 8 months and ridden it literally 3 times. i'm much more at home on 700c's and a bit too old for hammering stairsets now....

Radio Bombtrack V1

Selling exactly as it was out of the box, only thing changed is i've sprayed the white rims black (looks 10x better), it has a couple of scratches to the fork, nothing at all but need mentioning....

(Attached photo has wrong seat & post) more photos here: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_875931_langId_-1_categoryId_261353#tab2

Oh, don't think i still have the brakes, but i doubt anyone will want them

Spec (from Radio):

• Approximate Weight (KG): 12.1
  
• Brake Type: Caliper
  
• Forks: RADIO Bombtrack full 4130 cr-mo fork
  
• Frame Colour: Glossy Black
  
• Frame Material: Cr-Mo
  
• Frame-: RADIO Bombtrack full 4130 cr-mo frame
  
• Front Brake: Z-Star forged alloy caliper brake
  
• Handle Bars: RADIO Bombtrack full 4130 cr-mo bar
  
• Headset: FSA Int. headset, sealed bearing
  
• Hubs: RADIO Bombtrack hub, 3/8s axle, sb, 36h (front), RADIO Bombtrack fixed hub, sb,14mm axle, 36h / flip flop (rear)
  
• Pedals: SALT AM nylon/fibreglass pedals
  
• Quick Release Wheels: No
  
• Rear Brake: Z-Star forged alloy caliper brake
  
• Rims: SALTPLUS Dune straight double wall rim, 36h
  
• Saddle: RADIO Century fat padded pivotal seat
  
• Seatpost: RADIO pivotal seat post, hi-ten, 155mm
  
• Stem: SALT AM top loading stem, 50mm reach
  
• Suspension: Rigid
  
• Tyre size: 2.00"
  
• Tyres: WTB/FREEDOM Cruize Sport 2.0" front and rear
  
• Wheel Size: 26"
  
  
  
  

Priced to sell at £450ono

Located in Manchester, can send by courier or maybe deliver to London next week as i may be going to the London Cycle Show.....

Max.. sent you PM re a swap...

Max... are you still interested in the Radio Bombtrack i've got...? could do a straight swap if you wanted..?

still a purdy gurl... bump....

Better add firefighters to that list of people to arm....

Seriously seems you can do pretty much anything in a car and get away with it: Drink Driving + Crashing + Causing a death = 4 Month suspended sentence....

*A police officer who was found guilty of drink-driving after a crash which left his friend dead has been spared a jail sentence.

Brendan Buggie, 39, was handed a four-month suspended jail sentence at Bradford Crown Court today after being convicted of drink-driving.

He was cleared by a jury last month of causing Justyna Stanczak's death by careless driving.

Buggie, who was suspended from Greater Manchester Police following the collision in December 2011, resigned from the force today.

The former officer had drunk around six pints and was between one-and-a-half to two times over the legal limit when he ploughed his sports car into a parked van on the A56 in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, in appalling weather conditions.

Miss Stanczak, 26, who was in the front seat of Buggie's Toyota Celica, died later.

*http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1596209_greater-manchester-police-officer-given-suspended-sentence-for-drink-driving-after-crash-which-killed-justyna-stanczak-in-ramsbottom

2 Years? WTF! in manchester you can be a Police Officer on duty, buying coke instead of attending to a crime and still only get 8 months...

"A corrupt detective who sneaked off duty to buy cocaine from a drug dealer was told he had badly let the public down as he was locked up for eight months."

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1596019_jailed-corrupt-chorlton-detective-who-ignored-burglary-call---to-buy-drugs

in reality people ride proper moped in the bike lanes too, also recently you've been allowed to drive tiny electric cars in the bike lanes, i think they're for the disabled, but they take the full with of most of the bike lanes, and are a pain in the ass... luckily there aren't many of them at the moment....

so, a motoring website says cycling in the netherlands is in chaos... who'd of thunk it...? wonder if they'd propose that all those thousands of people should commute via car?

My step brother is looking for something at the mo' i'll see what he thinks, how much..?

Surly pacer...?

one of the big differences (from Amsterdam/copenhagen etc) is that the bikes we choose to ride are essentially a fashion/personality statement and not actually designed for commuting, pretty much everyone on this forum will be riding a bike designed for speed, they are sold on the back of the same go faster/compete mentality that cars are marketed to....

From my point of view & experience; i recently brought back from Amsterdam a standard Dutch situp & beg with practical mudguards & cargo box up front which is my everyday bike now. i used to ride a cannondale track.

Now i find that i'm physically riding in a more relaxed and less 'racey' position, i take up more space, i can carry stuff almost like having car boot, and i feel more like traffic, i find myself stopping at reds all the time, and interacting in a less confrontational manner with traffic... maybe its just me, but if you go to Amsterdam everyone rides basically the 'same' bike, it transcends fashion, its just how people commute, there are tangible reasons its better; roads layouts favour cyclists, many roads are one way for cars, both for bike etc...

i would like to believe that if we could only buy 'practical' bikes over here, without being seduced by the allure of racing/competing on the road and there were visible advantages to commuting by bike then we could perhaps move back to the bicycle being the default way of commuting...

#rantover #bitdrunk

Yeah and they got a stern £60 fine and 3 points ... Wow...

Ah missed that....

And yes Cynthia +1 the most positive and reasoned person in the whole thing

At least they dropped the Lucas Brunelle footage from the mix...

Edit: spoke too soon

Picked up a bottle of Singleton of Dufftown for £20 at asda... not acxtually a huge amount left now...

http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-6722.aspx

Jo

Girl riding a super ratty looking bike with a front brake and riser bars and what looked like ivy leaves wrapped around the head tube. Also had mega slack chain! Spotted on Monday afternoon outside Size in town.