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Used to see this around Mayfair when I lived in W London.

Then one day it changed into this.

That was about 4 years ago, when wrapping wasn't quite so commonplace. I quite liked the flat black, but liked more that there was another pristine paintjob hiding beneath it.

I like Astons, old and new. Some look more 'right' than others though. I've always preferred the Vanquish to the DB9, for example. And I've loved every Zagato.

http://i.imgur.com/jKXm9WP.png

Everyone on Twitter is just so funny. I think they should just drop the first T and call it Witter.

Needs smoked headlamps and very dark wheels. Looking quite Halfords in those areas, from here.

I want to try on some Giro Privateers to see whether I need the HV version, and can't find a single shop in NY that actually stocks them (I've called almost all of them).

'Ere mate, wanna buy an M3 CSL?
It's got more previous owners than miles, the driver's door is a different colour than the rear quarter, I can't tell you a thing about whether it's been properly serviced, crashed or stolen-and-recovered, but hey, come on, I only want SEVENTY-NINE FAAHSAND PAAHND for it...

Another dumb cup-holder for your bike.

I say dumb because, when I built my first ever sweet fixie conversion, I bought one of these and mounted an old bottle cage on my handlebars, trimming the high top off it and filing it smooth. My vision was that it would afford me the effortless grace of swinging by my local Stoke Newington barista, collecting my capp and riding back home to slave over my PowerBook G4.
The reality was rather different, as I lived in a city, and city streets are shit. My sweet fixie conversion was running 23c tyres pumped up to about 100psi. I got about 200 yards before my entire front wheel was soaked in frothy coffee.
It's a genuinely shit idea, and I wish people would stop trying to come up with 'solutions' for this fwp.
Ride to shop, drink coffee at or near shop. Ride away.

^ the staple of grumpy mechanics everywhere. I think it was mildly amusing in 1999.

They (the grumpy bike shop mechanics of central London) kept cracking wise with that one up until about 2004, by which time my CAAD 3 had outlived its 5-year warranty.

Thinking of putting a strip-shelving system (Ikea Algot, for example) up in our utility room. Throughout the rest of the newly-refurbed flat, the landlord has clearly laid new plasterboard directly over old.
I bought this Studfinder and got to work mapping the wall.
In 'Stud' mode (scanning depth 19mm) it detected barely anything.
In DeepScan mode (38mm), it revealed a rough layout that could proved a good framework for the shelving strips.

How long a fixing should I use, and what type?
Should I consider any particular types of plasterboard anchors?

Got it.

Finally getting into a groove with my AeroPress. It's taken me ages tbh, the first 20 or so cups I made with it were proper wazz.
I don't have the time or inclination to go full retard with the weighing scales and that, but for a casual home drinker I've now got a fairly-repeatable technique down;

• Prepare AeroPress in 'inverted' setup with the plunger pressed in between 3 and 4, and put in 1.5 scoops of medium-coarse ground coffee (I buy beans from local posh organic shop and grind it on the shop grinder between the 'Filter' and 'Coarse' setting).
  
• Put paper filter in the little 'mesh' holder, sitting it over intended coffee cup.
  
• Boil kettle, pour half a cup of boiling water through paper filter, leaving the water to warm up the cup a bit.
  
• Wait 30 seconds after kettle has boiled to begin pouring water over coffee. I fill it up past the 1 mark, to almost full.
  
• Gently stir for 20 seconds using paddle.
  
• Attach filter, and leave the coffee to brew for 1 minute. During this minute I empty the hot water out of the cup and put a little sugar in.
  
• Carefully flip the whole AeroPress over onto the cup (I do this right by the sink) and steadily plunge. Takes no more than 20 seconds. I see the water push its way right through the coffee. I stop the moment I hear the sound of escaping air.
  
  

That's it. Content, for now.

Surly Cross-Check can be set up SS, as can an All-City Space Horse. Mo' money, but mo' bike.

Pompino. I'm biased though.

Stumbled across this on another forum.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dkoz/engineered-art-bespoke-laser-etched-blueprint-artw
Nice idea, I like.

Possibly the best camera shop in London.

Glad to hear they're still going, with a good rep. Great shop, I bought and sold most of my kit through Richard and Patrick when I lived in London.
The camera has probably been photographed like that to show off the near-pristine condition of the lens mount - a key indicator for most of us. Don't worry, they keep a clean shop iirc.

1970's / 80's aero

Saw that car in the metal at the Petersen Museum a while back. It is truly tiny, and one of the most exciting designs I've ever seen. Tremendous.

How are you liking it? I've had one of these since crashing a Giro last year and can't say I ever managed to get used to the unique adjustment system. Doesn't feel as solid on my nut like a rear tightened helmet when wearing a skullcap or cap underneath

Only done about 25 miles with it on so far, always with a cycling cap underneath. I really like it, no trouble securing it and no hotspots. My head measures 59cm so it's in the right ballpark for the standard 02 (which is a one-size helmet) to be 'my size'.
Apparently every person at the LBS tried it on when it came in (I didn't mind) and two of the staff ordered one that same day. It was $110, which I think is pretty decent.

Wife has a P7, also currently for sale (in NYC). Rigid though. Lovely thing.

Good luck selling yours!

A prop stylist would do that, after some mutual chin-stroking with an art director. The above is obviously the way to go if you're on an interiors shoot and I just assumed the owner got a few grands worth of Vitsoe shelving for free in exchange for letting an ad shoot happen in their flat.

ftfy

OK. Out doing laps in the park on my Pomp, bloke sidles up along side on a fully-decked-out Surly LHT. Convo starts about 'builds', he says nice things about my bike. I notice carbon Force chainset on his Surly, along with other surprisingly tarty bits (for a steel 'functional' bike with racks and guards). I explain how glad I am that I built this incredibly cheap frameset up into a relatively light rig, what with me having just moved into a 3rd-floor apartment.
He responds with, "Try being a Dad who lives on the fourth floor and takes his kids to school on bikes every day. I used to have a really nice road bike, but, well, y'know."

I'm guessing it's 'cause 'Mericans like it all matchy-matchy and SRAM make better-looking levers and chainsets than Shimano.
They're also fans of abbreviation, so one double-tap lever is 'superior to' two single-tap levers.
In all seriousness though, it's because Cam-pan-yolo isn't a serious alternative to Shimano in America. With Campag (yes, Campag, not fucking 'Campy') you're talking a week's wait for your bike shop to get the right shifter cable in stock, versus SRAM-Shimano harmony and everything available right away.
The American guy who rides Campag has two other Campag-equipped bikes of equal specification to the one he just broke, basically.

Panaracer Palesa perhaps? it's a bit in between a touring tyres and a road tyres, not sure how much it'll stand skidding.

It won't. Soft as shite, you'd burn through a Pasela in about 50 feet.
Vittoria Randos are a popular cheap skidder tyre in the US, not sure if they're cheap in the UK though. Amazingly durable tyre.

Thing is, these sorts of bikes are becoming some people's 'one bike to do it all' for city folk, and often have to be carried up four flights of stairs after every outing. Nice lightweight components reward you every time you use them, on and off the bike.
Besides, whip the rack and fat tyres off that red one and you've got a really rather nice comfortable road bike that hopefully doesn't weigh a ton.
If I were ever to build a properly practical 'only' bike, I'd definitely look to save the extra weight that racks, guards and fat tyres add by using a higher-end lightweight crank and components.
Also, colour-coded racks are nice.

WD-40 is, ultimately, a degreaser (or at least, behaves as such).
Ask any kid who ever squirted it into his skateboard wheel bearings for five minutes of silky-smooth riding followed by throwing their bearings in the bin.
This is why

Happens to me every few weeks.

Disassemble each noisy component (stem, seatpost clamp) and reassemble using a sparing amount of assembly grease on the bolt threads and mating surfaces, just like a bike mechanic would.