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...which is why, before track bikes appeared on the streets, most fast cycle couriers rode a rigid MTB on slicks and raced MTB on dirt at the weekends.
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Whatever it is, make you you give him a ton of cool stickers with it so he can customise it.
And a race number. And stunt pegs. And clothes pegs, together with the tops off a few cereal boxes. Get him a spare rear tyre too, because skidding competitions really take their toll.
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+1. Also won't be particularly good at hopping down staircases, unless he's been castrated.
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Not strictly CX, but close.
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people camping outside a shop already. For things that go on sale. Fashion retail. It's a mug's game......
ftfy
Seriously, as lame as the twonks queuing outsideNandosAberFitch & Holliscunt -
However, if it starts creaking or clicking loudly 10 miles into a 70-mile mountains ride, your companions WILL hate you.
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The New York store is super-friendly. Hang your bike up for you, talk to you even when you're wearing Pearl Izumi shorts and an old ACG long-sleeve from the early noughties.
On very hot days I'll go for a Pro Team baselayer
On very hot days, why wear a baselayer at all?
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^this, but also take a look at Surly, Salsa & possibly All-City.
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Weather envy, it's hilarious. There's rarely mud in SoCal. When I lived there, I washed my bikes once every 6 weeks or so. Riding them just gets the drivetrain dirty, which any of us can have looking new again in about 15 minutes.
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The neon's tiny, but it's there.
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Well, it's a mint 90's MTB. Shame it has not been thrashed imo.
Quite an assumption. In the pictures it had literally just been finished, but the owner's riding it already.
This is one of his other Bontragers, and there's a third in the works.
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A not-so-small percentage of 'normal' buyers who have worked hard, saved, put a big deposit together and mortgaged themselves to their back teeth OR somehow obtained massive sums from family (dead or alive).
Ftfy.
You need to read this, if you haven't already. And even if you have, read it again.The answer is control, more control, legalised theft, legalised racism, patronising twaddle from MPs for the next five years, etc etc. The answer is not cutting the social lepers we call Estate Agents completely out of the housing food chain.
Ftfy also. I'm glad I don't live where you live. This park's ace.
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If you are saying that you think people should do strangers a favour at their own massive expense then you're bonkers.
I'm saying 'treat others as you would be treated'. The middle classes harp on about the ridiculous inflation of house prices, whilst simultaneously demanding ridiculously inflated prices for the houses they want to sell.
"Their own massive expense" goes down and down and down once people collectively realise that they don't have to participate in a race to see who can borrow the most money.
It's like Spike Lee whinging about nouveau Brooklynites having fancy dogs, whilst simultaneously demanding a $15,400,000 profit on the sale of his Manhattan townhouse. He's the exact 'problem' he's whinging about, only on a far larger monetary scale.
There's a middle ground, a point at which people can be reasonable. A point at which the relative monetary value of things makes sense. We need to get back to it, before the next generation of non-aristocrats are priced out of almost everything from education to home ownership (if indeed they actually want to own homes). -
'Penile-fracture' boner stem WTF
For reference, here's another almost identical bike with intact boner from the same seller.
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All this queueing-for-new-kicks shit just got ugly... Posted by a friend on FB:
Honesty what the fuck is wrong with People !!!
Today I was at a meeting at Slam City Skates, & there were 9 pairs of shoes for release/sale today...an extra 9...
Now people come & they que & the list gets made & then the list is given & it is followed...that is what happens.
Today the crew of people were a little rowdy...we all had to come up & help.
Now there was this one brother that swears that he was there...I say Brother...an Indian/Asian Brother there who swears he was in the line & he missed out on his pair. Guys name was not on the list, but insisting...getting vexed even...like stupid...Hi boys, one named Julian were angst but civil & understood the game, but complained about this set up...now this Julian said he does this for his store all the time...so he must be buying & reselling on his shop...
Now this Asian B gets annoyed that the kid, the student's name was on the list & he got a pair & Asian B didn't get his...he starts asking this kid & fronting him out saying be honest tell everyone I was here...this student is probably the one true Palace Kid...head to toe dedicated...all these others want their dunk...but hey no problem there...shit A$AP is rocking' PALACE these days...
All sales happen, we believe it all to be done...I go down to continue my meeting...doesn't start till later as this Asian B mugged the student on Broad daylight...Hit the kid from behind got him to the floor punched him in the face & took the kicks & ran...This Asian Fucker was wearing that SUPREME Coach Jacket with the Versace Type print going on it...black Trs & Black Nike's...not much of a description, but if anyone see their boy in that Get up & is wearing a Pair of Diamond Dunks, or has a Slam City bag with a Pair in them...
tell him he is the lowest form of scum on this planet, & I hope that someone does know him & perhaps fights fire with fire...& gives him the same treatment...& idiot that you fucking are...you are on cc TV & ASSAULT & ROBBERY will get you 3 years in Jail fucko...& I pray to all things considered holy in this world that you get caught, you go to Jail...all over a pair of fucking Kicks...
You fucking prick & embarrassment to Society & IndoAsian people...
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^^ but by that same token nothing has any 'real' value.
That's not even vaguely true.
Anyway more to the point when was the last time the currency of a large wealthy developed state became worth nothing over night?
No real-world examples to cite (yet), but use your imagination; In any sort of post-apocalyptic scenario, money ceases to mean anything. If full-on worldwide warfare ever happened (on yours and every street, not watching drone footage on CNN from your comfy heated home), somebody could hand you a bag with five million quid cash in it, and it would only be of use as campfire fuel. If they handed you a PRACTICAL OBJECT such as a shovel / knife / rifle or taught you a SKILL, those things are (at that point) worth infinitely more than money.
Money is a construct. The property market is a construct. People make massive profits on houses because some greasy spiv middlemen cunts keep pushing the asking prices up to line their own pockets. Then, every other seller looks sideways at what somebody has managed to get for their house, and overcharges accordingly. This carries on, and on, and on.
At no point does anyone express a desire to treat others fairly - to sell their house for a reasonable price, to allow somebody 'beneath' them in the housing food chain to buy a good place for good money. Everybody always insists (and is pushed by society and the stinking property industry) to get the absolute maximum return on their 'investment'.
It's bullshit.As for
Property is generally a good investment so long as -
You don't buy in an area which declinesIt's short-sighted self-serving NIMBY crap like this that's rendering London and Manhattan as cripplingly expensive, rather boring carbon-copies of each other. Read the papers. An area is only ever as good as the people who choose to live there. People are already starting to realise this about Detroit, and are getting genuinely excited about its rebirth.
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With a 'fucked headset', I'm guessing the fork might be newer than the frame?
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I did.
I was talking London in the late 1990s/millennium, a short while before the Fixed Gear bike was popularised as a fashion item. I know they rode slick rigid MTBs, because I rode one too. I know they raced MTB at the weekends (or weeknights when the Beastway series was on) because I'd occasionally race with them, or at least go to watch. As did the courier-owner of that rasta-painted Bontrager you guys loved/slated in here. The company I worked at had its own fleet of couriers, who I consulted plenty when I built my Volvo-Cannondale commuter.
I appreciate that Track bikes have been around a lot longer than MTBs, but there was a relatively short window of time when they ruled city streets. In many ways, a well-built one is still the ideal fast city street machine - almost like an adult-sized BMX that can sprint faster and brake far harder and later than a track bike. A lot better for taking the odd staircase too.