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I intend to come along this evening; I have not been along before. I have no idea what you look like, so here is a photo of me, taken in sunnier times: too late - I'm back to being anonymous. Thanks to everyone who said hello.

So if you see me looking lost and alone, say hello and you shall be rewarded... WITH BEER!!!

Thanks then, Tom

PS - Tips on how to explain to your housemates that you are going for a beer with people 'from the internet' without using the term 'from the internet' greatfully received.

Someone should put a brake on the proliferation of threads on brakes.

I dunno; they're generally of a pretty high caliper.

Avoid faceplants? HTFU.

when riding geared i use the rear brake and often both front and rear, pretty much every single time i wanted to slow down or stop. i don't know why you wouldn't really? unless you're training yourself to not use it. but why would you want to do that? seems a bit daft to me.

From the man himself:

The fastest that you can stop any bike of normal wheelbase is to apply the front brake so hard that the rear wheel is just about to lift off the ground. In this situation, the rear brake cannot contribute to stopping power, since it has no traction.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html

Mine's only on there so I don't give the fuzz more excuses to burn me when I get caught RLJ'ing.

Being able to read a book.

No 1 thing I miss. If you can perfect reading on a packed tube to the exclusion of everything else, the rest gets so much easier.

I call for Private tandems, or if you're really posh, velo-taxi

Yeah, except the velo-taxi would arrive an hour after i do :)

So we have something to compare. Surely there must be a reason why people choose to take the bus..over cycling

I'm going to attempt to be objective here:

Cons:

Rain.

Lorries.

General upon-arrival sweatiness; there's no way I'd be able to cycle in if I couldn't shower when I got there.

Tiredness - a cross-town commute, whilst enjoyable, can get pretty tiring by the end of the week, especially if you're doing long and intense hours in-between the riding.

Clothes. I'm fortunate to be able to work in clothes that are back-packable, but if you're in a suit everyday I imagine it gets a little more complicated.

Fear of 'Cycling in London'; some people just aren't very comfortable on bikes. Or they're fat. Or both.

S

The caps were my attempt at implying irony.

Homerton > Clapham every day.

Public Transport:
£100/month travel card
1 - 1 1/2 hrs each way
Depressing as fuck. (Ever taken the Overground during rush-hour?)
Exposure to all kinds of lovely viruses (esp in winter).

Bike:
£Fuck all (well, not exactly, but I enjoy spending money on my bike way more than my oyster card)
40 mins each way
Keeps me fit
Immensely satisfying flying past all that traffic (+ danger)
Expousure to all kind of trucks
Girls on bikes

You do the MATH

hahaha, I've spent the last ten minutes contemplating training an owl to sit on my handlebars whilst I ride, it could fly off and hunt down prey (chocolate, beer or shiny bike bits) and then return them to me.

Twit Twoo for 2009.

edit - shit, bar mounted owls were 2008 apparently:

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=109994&in_page_id=2

This looks shopped. Don't ask me how I can tell.

i know a cracking owl sanctuary

Love to join you but I'm off to SpiceWorld.

I've heard it's expensive though.

And why don't they ever wear helmets in their brand shoots? I feel this is setting a very bad example.

Nice to know everyone's having a whale of a time this evening...

Mr. Scruff

Fucksocks, missed out on this. I'll take Ved's sm grey if he doesn't get back to you. Or another small grey or white if you've any left over....

Once I finish my degree I can escape to wherever, stuck for the time being.

I studied at the AIB; know the feeling...

Just some shops Poole/Bournemouth.

Time to get out of Poole / Bournemouth...

Very sorry to hear this. Stay safe all.

I come from Bournemouth so I'm always around at Christmas; had this been a month ago I'd have been up for an xmas night ride, how about next year?

We have done a lot of work to track down this product. It is designed and made by Carrie and Mary in Philadelphia. We like what they do and their attitudes. They conduct Fabric Horse business entirely by bicycle

Who bikes them to the uk, I wonder.

Nice holsters, mind.

I think you missed my point.

I think I did. That made me chuckle even more. Fine work.

Now that would have been funny. Grandmother you mean.

He did actually say this. It made me chuckle.

Well no cunt answered!

And there was I thinking you were deconstructing the joke in a stroke of rhetorical genuis.

Alas poor Yorik, I knew him well. How soliloquy is that?

The King of Hollywood. How Clark Gable is that?

Pointless and often pondered 80's and probably French bathroom appliance. How bidet is that?

Been done my friend. You lose a point.