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I may have missed something, but is this in relation to something in this thread?

lololololol

"Bikes + Gender in the workshop" - is this really an issue? Really? Genuine question.

See (parts of) rest of thread.

The argument about whether the bike lane is becoming the new cat walk makes me angry in ways that very few things do. So angry my eyeballs are twitching.

Just because there are different types of girls out there that want to be riding bikes in their own way you "Beauty and the Bike" lot get all threatened that they are stealing your sub-culture and now you too will have to wear red lipstick and capes if you want to ride your bike.

Chill the fuck out and just do what you fucking want and let the more girly of cyclists do what we want to.

I don't know who it is who's doing that particular talk so I don't know exactly what it's about, but unless it's massively incongruent with the rest of the event, I really doubt it will be the kind of thing you've envisaged. I personally read a more blingy bikes/posing dimension into it than girls who are dressed up, but besides, from what I know of the organisers who have always had a very strong feminist element running through the things they do, I'm sure if it was taking the sexist angle you describe it would be given pretty short shrift by a lot of the people there.
Like I say I don't know what the actual angle of the thing is tho, so I can't say for sure.
The aspects of gender in cycling is one of the things I'm most interested in, btw, and I haven't really yet had a chance to explore/pin down a lot of my thoughts about it..

This:

Chill the fuck out and just do what you fucking want and let the more girly of cyclists do what we want to.
is always a good starting point tho

this sounds suspiciously like the agenda to my last club meeting, except we're organised in a very different way!

Yeah.

I'm not quite sure how me repeating banal tautological statements counts as a rant, and I have no interest in fights. I just detected a hint of opinion or substance in your first post which I'll take your word as actually being solely administrative in nature.

The event still sounds cool, tho.

I think the point is it's at least reasonably difficult to ride at a steady 25mph unless you're going down hill or have a pretty helpful tail wind. Were you riding fixed? If so what ratio are you on?

the issues in the "anarchist" event are issues for all (semi) organised groups of cyclists

Yep..

and.. ?

You might as well have pointed out that the issues on the agenda at the Tory party conference were similar to those on the agenda at the Labour party conference. Yes, groups of cyclists have things in common. Yes, political parties have things in common. Yes, groups that have things in common have things in common. But also, if they're different, then they are also different, the difference between the Tory party and the Labour party being that one's the Tory party and the other is the Labour party, the difference between your cycling club and a group of anarcho-bicyclists being that one of them is your cycling club and the other is a group of anarcho-bicyclists. These things don't usually warrant beng pointed out unless someone is trying to make some kind of point about it in some kind of way.

And all this vegan stuff is amazingly stupid. I presume EEI is being intentionally hilarious. I thought his very first comment in this thread was very good actually.

this sounds suspiciously like the agenda to my last club meeting, except we didn't need a political framework to justify it!

.. so what? Why is 'not having a politcal framework' superior to having a political framework? Surely your club has some raison d'etre, and someone could quite easily glibly say "sounds like what I wrote an essay on over breakfast, except I didn't need to justify it!" I mean.

What did your club resolve about the corporate takeover of the bicycle and gender in the workshop (or at least, whatever the particular matters were that were similar to these)? It sounds you're in a pretty interesting club btw!

Skully, that's all well and good but the most oppressed often have no choice. They eat what they can. Sometimes this will be meat. Why be so exclusive particularly when the choice is really only a choice of affluence.

How is having vegan food at an event being exclusive? It's certainly not a prerequisite for being an anarchist.

Anyway this sounds cool. Needs a fixie tricks workshop tho.

The Guardian really fucks me off these days. It's as bombastic as the right-wing rags.

I haven't noticed a change in the quality of their reporting. commentisfree is another matter entirely, btw. One problem they do face is that they have to single-handedly cover all the stories that they know no other paper is going to cover, like the stuff about how housing cuts are going to fuck us all up, and basically all the academic research into the impact of the government's policies, because none of the other papers are interested in covering what highly skilled and qualified academics have found out from in depth and rigourous analysis, they're only concerned about covering their own/probably their readers' baseless opinions. Even the Mirror/the Morning Star (which is actually quite a quality paper, good on international & union news especially) wouldn't be interested in covering stuff like that in the way the Guardian does. Also things like the phone hacking as well, and any other Murdoch-related stories, over which there will be a deathly omerta from almost the entirety of the rest of the press. So it can make it seem like the Guardian is labouring (lol) over that stuff. But I for one am very glad they are there to report it. And for me, they're still leagues ahead in their general (i.e. not directly locally political) news reporting.

But how do they look? I have to say just imo from that photo they don't quite seem to avoid the NHS special shoe look, especially as you say the strap is made from seatbelt material???

Will i ever be able to ride on the velodrome?

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

*I know it's not hevetica

ffs. Gotham is way more hipster than Helvetica in any case

(maybe? perhaps not tho)

a 30 year old turbo.....saddles: possibly the least most important part of a track bike, spend your money on steroids instead.

Doping thread >>>>>>>>>>

The main problem with NLP is (as pretty much said by some people already) not so much that the things they do aren't effective, sometimes some of them are, and when they are these will be found in other 'theories/methodologies'/whatever you want to call them, but that, like for example psychoanalysis, or evolutionary psychology, there's spurious cooked-up 'model' or 'mechanism' for why the things that work do actually work, which is the thing that makes NLP NLP as opposed to CBT or anything else, which isn't based on anything real at all and is fake science.

Try telling Sir Chris Hoy there is no evidence as he uses alot of weight-lifting techniques in his training and race prep

ftfy

you're indulging the dopey cyclists* who thinks the road belongs to them at least one meter on each side.

Dopey? I think it's pretty sensible to both keep 1 metre away from the kerb (car doors, peds stepping out etc.) and expect cars to not come within a metre of you when overtaking. I mean, that's actually pretty close if you think about it and I would feel pretty uncomfortable with anything less.

This is probably better than anything.

I'd go to that Party, sound good,

i don't care i'm totally hipster,

you shoudl see the night me and my mate do at the Macbeth

..what?

had a quick ride on SS then after a bit of messing around with it-fixing lights speedo and better innertubes and rim tape i had another go on it in FIXED ....WEIRED.... but ill stick it out, its just a shame the weather is nasty..

..what?

This guy has some great videos, the graphics really help convey how complex the compositions were (for us people who can't hear music innit).

ftfy?

(copy & paste to ms word it is 68 pages)

In 72pt? I read it and it's long but didn't seem that long!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOIXJxg5HTc

http://england.shelter.org.uk/

Everything you might need to know on there. Helped me with a lot of stress when I was moving between places before I came to Uni and they have a FREE urgent advice telephone line: 0808 800 4444. As soons as I gets a job I'm giving these guys a lot of money, I can tell you.

Mechamorgan (recognised by quiff :D) on Oxford Road earlier. Nice bars, are they B123's?

just thought is like posting mc hammer in the hip hop thread!!

No-one else seems to mind!

I fucking love radio3.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_three

Jazz on 3! Jazz thread>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

As bad as the poetry thread(s) :(

From another thread bringing it here to be relevant:

Is that defo the case? I.e. In the rulebook? I'd planned on using straps and trainers when scalping some MAMIL bling this spring, but guess I need to use my clipless instead...

Certainly not. Tho proper cycling shoes (i.e. stiff soled) apparently make you 30% more efficient. My plan is slotted cleats with clips&straps. I'd certainly be all for more use of old-school technology so I say go for it.