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BrickMan /failings at forums since 1997

Is there not an OTP/road/city bike thread somewhere? or have I just totally missed the plot on this one...

ooopps

spotted a commuter quality fixed locked up outside victoria train station on the railings. Its been there the past few months, moves up and down the railings a bit, but always there.
Whole thing painted in black hammerite type paint with grit in it, result.... surface texture similar to 'anti-bill poster lampost paint' completly unstealably aweful, so I copied the idea....

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Any Ideas What this is guys?

Cheers,

Ben

giant omnium/TCR track frameset. Probably a 2007-8 model as current models have even beefier hydroformed down tube. Giant logo & integrated headset gave it.

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= ???

a giant something :p
has track/horiz dropouts so there is probably only one bike in giants lineup that fits that description.

they're just going to wheel it aren't they.

Should probably booby trap your bike when you leave it. acid on the track nuts, razor blades in the saddle, anti climb paint on the grips.....
the task force seem to be getting through quite a lot of bikes & leads. And from what I've read on this thread do seem to be returning the occasional bike, which is better than most parts of the UK. When I lived in the northeast if you rang th police local number and had the words 'stolen & bike' in the same sentance they would just hang up on you, not worth their time etc.

outside gard du nord & gare du oust its not permitted to chain your bicycle. ANYWHERE on that entire stretch of pavement AFAIK. Its ok to chain up outside the resturants or kebab shops on the other side of the street though.

haha yes, but I was attempting to hide my past-time from my employer, showing them what I get upto between meetings (and occasionally in a working day) is probably not the best way forward in business.
the whole idea of exploring does fit what I'm looking for though, the mix between modern adventure, pioneering in an urban environment and whats trendy*

*though those true pro's don't consider it trendy and quietly get on with it.

reading that park tool howto, the bit you are seeing is probably just a dust cap for the bearings & pawls. It unscrews in the drive direction, therego turning it the other way would act as unthreading the freewheel from the hub BUT. I bet the cap will give out before the thing comes off the hub.
Looking at my freewheel covers (shim600 + a random campy + some cheapies) they are all metal, but I would bet they would break/shatter/twist before the thing actually came undone.

you'll probably have to adapt a tool. best off finding a shop that has a selection then buy one and file it to fit. Use a QR or bolt through to secure teh tool against the freewheel as one slip and the tool will be minced. I learn't this the hard way thinking 'I'll just try that before I go to work' and boof, fudged it.

yeah so searched the thread and it was YOU lot who ate all the pizza, hogged all the spicey olive oil.

Grrrrrrr.
Next time I will attempt to be there, and I will out-pizza you all!!!! muhahahaha

Er, no, I can't possibly imagine anyone who might fit that description. :)

provide me with t3h pictures to identify the spicey olive oil hogger

lol, enjoying reading that one.

The whole student demo thing about fee's is a lost cause TBH. Its not like their just going to repeal the whole thing based on a few thousand school kids getting a bit shirty. Fun though :D

so nobody on this forum wears tweed, has a ginger handlebar moustache and is vertically challenged?
They were quite loud too. Bike security came in the form of turning the bike upside down :p

maybe catch some of you gents at some point as I frequent there fairly often :p

personally only thing I look for is decent quality valves. Some are some shoddy metal, the needle of the valve looks like its made from farmers wire on really cheap ones... leads to snapped off'ness when you are trying to pump them.

any north guys ever use the £3 eat in pizza place opposite Highgate station?
been a few times over the last few months and always seems to be packed with Rapha & campag clothed bike people, and tweed O_o

fuggin SVVVEEEETTTTT
except I'm no longer comign down to landan that weekend. gutted I can't as its right by me when i'm there, literally can throw stuff that far :p
need a rear wheel, bits, stuff I don't need and maybe a whole bunch of sexy bits. Maybe next year.

damn zaney germans.
appears to work though.

yeah I found that, but nobody had posted in a while :/

Hey people of LFGSS

Recently I've been tasked with trawling the interwebs looking for interesting blogs/articles, mainly on an adventure/ outdoors/ exploring (any)/ philosophical side of things. My hours are running out and so far I'm coming up with a lot of not so great stuff.

McNebula posted me in the direction of this...
http://www.blueanarchy.org/holdfast/
the anarchists yacht club. Never heard anything like it before, but after watching the documentary (really good!) realise there are quite a few people who do this.

asking really if anyone has come across any blogs, stories or articles on that sort of line in the past year or so.

Cheers all! :)

with virgin you get an indian call centre, who doesn't understand northern and will beat about the bush for about 10minutes costing your money on a premium number. Language barrier over it was a pretty simple process.
however, pendelino's, their flagship mainline trains, can take like 70persons per carriege. Yeah, only has 4bike slots. any recumbants/ tandems take up the whole space, and there are an alarming number of them travelling like that!

Grandcentral are a PROPER train company, running decent old valentia powered thrash monsters with free cups of tea/coffee and monopoly and free wireless. You can take as many bikes and luggage as you please and it never costs that much money, even if you just get on it without booking in advance. the rest need to learn a lesson, and come renewal time for service contract for west coast mainline its unlikely virgin will win it again ;)

Has anybody had any luck with Lock-Wiring seatpost bolts on? Unless the attacker went to the effort and fiddly'ness of unwrapping/ pulling at/ cutting the stainless wire they would have a hell of a job, even with 12" molegrips. My saddle is worth £0 and my post in the minus numbers, they look shiney and worth stealing, maybe I should set to work with some decorative duck tape? :p Just blows if someone nicks something like that making riding back a bit of a pain :o

good alternative to the thames clipper ;)