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Just had this crossing the junction from Crossway into Boleyn Road. BB Spindle sheared off about an inch from the end of the non-drive side, completely without warning. Ran up the road to Push cycles and despite being closed, they let me in, said that they'd try and get it fixed that evening, and called me an hour or so later to let me know that they'd done it! Absolute lifesavers!

Mine was good, but then I left pretty late. I rode to London Fields and then took the canal to the Isle of Dogs which I do when I'm running late, lovely day for it. Marred only by the repetitive clink from my BB.

Is there NE1 out there?

Spotted a dude wearing a pith helm on a penny-farthing, this morning, going West on the CS3. I'm guessing fixed.

Also spotted Johnny Vercoutre on what looked like a 50s roadster, just down the road from Time For Tea. Biggest headlight I've ever seen on a bike.

But if there was a stem you'd be getting A-head...

Hi Guys

Anyone know a good canine behavioural person? We got a lovely Cocker Spaniel about 3 months ago when he was about 14 months old. He's great round the house but is so anxious of other dogs... will chase em barking his head off, very frustrating. Had those fairytale dreams of meeting all those other dog owners over the park etc.. At the moment I turn and walk in the other direction whenever we see another dog!
I'm in SE London.. any recommendations?

Cheers
Nic

Cocker Spaniels have some fairly severe behavioural issues bred into them. Google 'Cocker Spaniel Rage'. It's like apoplexy for dogs.

Someone just said it's Dancing James behind the camera? Surely not... though slightly believable..

Never. DJ doesn't jump reds, as he takes great pleasure in telling us at every opportunity.

I'd post this in Sort of Memes That Are Cracking You Up Right Now, but you probably haven't heard of it.

By the way, my friend fall out of the 4th floor balcony while drunk. He couldn't walk for over a year.
He's spend a whole year in his room hand painting(!) t-shirts for hXc bands with acrylics.
He can only walk now, because he was cycling (with pins through his bones) and gradually straightened his legs.

Is hXc some kind of straight edge thing? Fair enough, that experience would put me off drink too.

Let street it as an unsolveable, and bypass the wider issue. Every time we try to get the thread back on track, someone decides to avenue pop at it. I just don't want to hear terrace ism argument anymore; it's completely lane. A dead end.

Can this simplistically be put down the the effect of TVs?

I get more and more depressed on each visit to Nigeria, as folk that don't have much seem to devote their energies to the purchase of total fucking nonsense in the aim of showing outwardly how well they're doing, which, is of ZERO benfit to their lives. They aren't totally poor, they have access (sometimes a group access) to tv with foreign satellite channels pumping out MTV and all that dribble. It's almost like the end of Jim Bowen's Bulls Eye: "Here's what you could have won" - The metaphorical rubbing of your face in the mirror of how shit your life is because of you don't have what we're advertising.

That is what pollutes the mind IMO. The places that I've been to minus TVs but are materialistically really poor seem happier and to co-exisit much better. None of the inflated individualistic egos that get bigger the further West you travel.

Were kids as brand aware in this country in the 70s/80s as they are now? I didn't know anyone robbing/stabbing for a pair of airmax then as now.

Probably not far off, but then take as a counter example the increased emancipation of a generation of rural women in Brazil, who, seeing the educated, independent, urban women depicted in soap operas, seem to have collectively said 'fuck this shit; I want a piece of that.'

As for the whole hand-wringing thing, just because one identifies a psychopathic cunt as a product of their environment, and want to change the things that are wrong with that environment, doesn't mean that you have to let the individual off with being a psychopathic cunt. It's a tough call though, because though it's easy to talk about the platonic ideals of 'normal person' and 'scum/thief/brute', most teenage boys are going to be somewhere between the two in terms of the acceptability of their behaviour. We aren't simply trying not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, we're more like dealing with a baby soup, and trying to get rid of the bathwater element without throwing any of the baby soup away.

I do the repairs on his bike. He's a really nice bloke and rides his bike a lot.

Cool! have you ever touched him?

Yeah, he seemed friendly. He was getting a lot of hassle in the form of adoration, and though he was clearly not comfortable with it he was being friendly and obliging. At least no one was shouting 'born dead from your own arse' at him or anything like that - you know how people do with comedy figures.

I miss the Hackney squat scene at it was, but the reason there isn't a squat scene in Hackney any more is because the housing stock in the borough is in a much, much better state than it was in the 80s.

What does it say about London that all the squats seem to be in Mayfair now?

:-)

Chris Morris, at the protest today. I could have touched him, but I didn't.

[edit] He was wearing fluoro nodder kit too. [/edit]

I love this map. Westminster is high. Most of Hackney average.

You have to toggle the crime types to get a decent picture. Wealthy areas will have a higher incidence of reporting of minor offences, as the people living there tolerate less antisocial behaviour. Similarly they get targeted disporportonately for burglaries and suchlike. if you toggle to violent crimes, you get a different picture sometimes - and certainly, you have to account for the amount of crime that results from people going out and getting pissed. I reckon the high crime rating of a lot of the City of London is down to that.

Did you know that both male and female hyenas have penises...

The females have a pseudophallus that they use for dominance purposes. Just like in those films you watch!

great. and now i can no longer listen to anything by shaun smith without having to think about this freakish aryan cockmongler. fuck you very much.

Aryan Cockmongler sounds like they are way underground, and totally unironic. All their fans will be into them 'ironically' though, like poor old GG Allen...

I somoked pipe on the way from Easts few weeks ago. Pipes are great as they tend to last thorough the whole journey.
By smoking a pipe during a ride, I want people to know, that I ride my bicycle nonchalantly without much care about my health or fitness.

You must share your method with me - I find that the breeze from cycling means that my tobacco gets too hot and burns,instead of charring in a mellow manner. I have been looking for one of those little handlebar pipe stands for ages!

N1 includes prosperous Barnsbury, disadvantaged Hoxton & is in both the boroughs of Hackney & Islington.

The only way Hoxton is disadvantaged is that no-one living there can carry anything worth stealing in the pockets of their ridiculous minstrel pants.

call someone a cunt most places in england and it's fighting talk. don't be fooled by the brave attempts of the middle-class wankers in London, they've just run out of expletives cos they're rude and uptight.

That's why I prefer to call people cockdribbles or turdsmudges. Far less likely to get aggro.

really gotta go, more rocks to bake up, you know how it goes.
I was into Crack when he was still one of the Rice Krispies.

Wow, some dude on the internet pretends to be an authentic ras klaat and everyone starts acting all street or something.

Do a Barrel Roll!
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&q=barrelling%20machine&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw

Most jewellers will have one. 30 mins in that will have it lovely and shiny, without the risk of damage or the reduction in material that you get with a buffing wheel.

Yeah, I see this sort of idiocy all the time. On Seven Sisters road therehas been some resurfacing done between Amhurst Park and St Anns Road, and there is a short stretch where there's no bus lane. in this section there is a lot of zig-zag 'no parking' lines, and then where that isn't there, there's a dashed line which look suspiciously like it's going to be a cycle lane. Now I'm not a fan of cycle lanes being all over the place but on major routes it is useful - IF they're solid lined or otherwise fully segregated lanes. But a dashed lane doesn't actually prohibit drivers from entering, so is worse than useless, because it reinforces the idea that cyclists should ride in the gutter, but provides no refuge whatsoever from reckless drivers, and has no legal or regulatory weight to do so as far as I can tell -whereas at least a solid line is technically not meant to be crossed.

Hello there!

I've been thinking about the same question a lot recently as I'm working on my first conversion/build - a 5 speed constructeur/porteur for my girlfriend. I'm going the hub dynamo route. The reelights are essentially a dynamo as well - they work on the same principle as a hub dynamo - not a particularly efficient one, but have the advantage of being easy to retrofit and creating less drag than a bottle dynamo. I wasn't aware of any wind-up light marketed.

I've decided to go for the hub dynamo for a few reasons. Firstly it's in the middle of the wheel so protected from knocks and the elements better than a bottle dynamo would be. If you're playing around with one in the shop it feels clicky and like there's a fair bit of resistance. However, at speed this disappears (largely) because half the time the magnets are pulling together in the direction of travel and half the time they're pulling together against the direction of travel, so the forces balance out (I may not have explained that very well). There will however be additional drag when the lights are in operation - but not as much as created by bringing a bottle dynamo into contact with the wheel. That said my experience of bottle dynamos is restricted to old ones; they may have been improved.

I know what you mean about the lights being vulnerable. It bothers me too. However I hope that the attractiveness of the lights will be reduced by the fact that the power source would also have to be taken, as opposed to some of the very fancy rechargeable lights which have an easily removed power pack.

I have no idea what the German word for 'skid' is, or which verb one would use. At any rate, you'd use the indefinite article.

Wouldn't you use the imperative? I can never work out what that ought to be though - the only one I can remember is 'hoerch!' which is what Audi used to be called, and clearly related to the antiquated English 'hark!'

Leo says that the verb for 'to skid' is 'durchdrehen', so 'Drehen sie durch!' (maybe?) There are alternatives which make more sense though; gleiten, rutschen. 'Gleiten' also has the advantage of meaning 'to sashay'.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the Engleutsch* 'Skidden sie!' but of course it will make no sense to the Bosch.

*Referring of course to the German tendency to misappropriate English words, known as 'Denglish'.